Fishing Stories and Tall Tales

[FrenchCarper]

Since some one else revived this thread I guess i'll share some of my stories. As most of you can guess by the name I am French. Back when I was a young lad fishing on a private swim for carp outside of Lyon. We arrived late and decide to hit up the local tackle shop for boilies and chum mix. When the owner starts telling us about Marilyn the legendary local fish. Marilyn is a local famous mirror carp with a black dot on her left side named after Marilyn Monroe. This carp was huge 30 lb that all the local anglers are always after. So we decide to join the "hunt" and try to catch her. We went 3 days on that swim with out a single bite as we started to pack up are bivvy that's when it happened, We had a large run on my left line. I set the hook and this fish was fighting like no tomorrow. About 30 min later we finally land the fish. To are surprise it turns out to be her. She weighed in at 32.5 lbs and the look on all the other anglers face when they started to run over to are swim was priceless. Since then I have caught bigger carp, moved to Canada, and even started to change up the species that I target. But nothing will ever compare to the fight that fish put up. If your ever happened to enter that tackle shop(if its still open) look for the picture of the lad in a orange hunting vest and a raccoon skin cap that's me, and that's the exact moment I fell in love with carping and fishing.