Benson, the largest female carp in England, died last week. She was 25 years old and weighed 60 lb!

The cause of death is uncertain, but it appears she may have suffered from food poisoning caused by an inexperienced anglers bait.

After a life time of service as the "one that got away" anglers are saying she will be sadly missed.

Is this a tall fish story?

Depends on what angle you're looking at it from ;)

FOOD POISONING? Well that is such a shame but that is what happens when you leave such things up to an apprentice or journeyman baiter when obviously for such an important carp it requires a Master Baiter.:eek:


Benson, the largest female carp in England, died last week. She was 25 years old and weighed 60 lb!

The cause of death is uncertain, but it appears she may have suffered from food poisoning caused by an inexperienced anglers bait.

After a life time of service as the "one that got away" anglers are saying she will be sadly missed.

I think there's something fishy about your theory fifty, you be skating on thin ice with such comments in front of ladies ;)

On the contrary - I feel that the ladies can do it as good as the gentlemen can... sometimes even better... though that is only my opinion... I have jet to see all of the guide books but I have been informed there are some instructional and inspirational videos online :eek:

Perhaps you should scale the turn-pike looking for said videos ;)

and then dive right in...

Cod go quit swimmingly ;)

As long as there is no floundering -- though I can't fathom why there would be...

It could be that someone's getting crabby...

You sink so? BTW, it's also not good to swim with a haddock...

Why ever not? My Codfather told me that if I'm not careful I will be swimming with the fishes one day.

That's finny...he must have been well-schooled...

He was a bit of a fly character, always trying to worm his way out of education, eel be sadly missed though.

Sounds like he was -- without a trout -- rather deep.