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In reply to Post #430
Good post Ian.
Good enough to lock this thread now.
Time to move on people
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In reply to Post #428
I'm struggling a little to comprehend all the hate being thrown at the fella in this thread.
It's because these people have nothing better to moan about.
Greg has documented his last several campaigns on YouTube so to say the latest vid is made to try to justify something makes no sense at all imo.
He's not everyone's cup of tea but the best thing about carp angling for me is that way it unites anglers from all walks of life. I've shared a cuppa with cops, robbers, judges, and drug dealers on the bank and they've all got on like a house on fire because they share the same passion. Yet we come on here and the 'anglers' have f*ck all better to do than sit waiting for the next thing to slate, slag off, and moan about.
That's not aimed at any one person. It's aimed at everyone on here that just cannot find it within themselves to sit back, accept the guy is different, and offer credit for a great capture of a fantastic fish.
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In reply to Post #428
I never like to judge people, whoever they are, without meeting them in person...a lot of things seen and said on social media tends to split public opinion.
The Advance Angling rules, that are open for everyone to see on their webpage, clearly states in rule 6 "only designated swims may be fished" and the accompanying map of the lake does not show the islands in front of bailiffs as a designated swim. When we use to fish the lake back in the day when it was Cemex there was a rule that you could not fish from the islands, however the bailiffs used to, which is how Hodders island became named......Ken left his bivvy set up there for about 3 months and every week used to take his gear out in the boat and fish there. For every one fish that we collectively caught Ken caught 3. The following year we rented the island next to the yatch club, joined the yatch club
so we could legally use a boat and rinsed the place....it really was easy fishing compared to what we were used to. Not sure what is like now but fishing off those islands was a massive edge.
So does this compromise Gregs capture...not sure but it must have made it alot easier.
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I didn't find him all that aggressive really. After reading the opinions of the youtube vid on here I thought he was going to biting the heads off baby rabbits or something. Yes he does mention head butting the guy but lets be honest with each other, almost everybody says things like that and you can be almost guaranteed it's all mouth and no action.
He certainly doesn't come across as my cup of tea and I'd probably avoid him if I was fishing the same lake but I'm struggling a little to comprehend all the hate being thrown at the fella in this thread.
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In reply to Post #426
Ok and no offence taken, we are free to disagree.
In my opinion he will never remove the doubts, and if that video is how he wants to present himself in the public domain its up to him.
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In reply to Post #425
All of it.
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In reply to Post #424
Which bit?
The whole carping world knows there is something iffy about the circumstances surrounding the capture.
Just look at this thread.
Whether anyone else should care or not outside of the Burghfield anglers is a matter of opinion.
He knows it will always be in question.
If he can live with that then good for him.
He doesnt seem too happy about it though.
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In reply to Post #423
Load of tosh that is imo mate. No offence intended 
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In reply to Post #422
Whatever he says and however aggressive he gets he cannot change the fact that his capture of that fish is compromised.
And if he really didnt care, or really didnt think there was an issue, he wouldnt have spent near on 1h 45m in a video trying to justify it.
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Watched it now and TBH I meet guys like him pretty much anywhere I fish. They tend to be ok if you take them with a pinch of salt. He just came across as happy really, although the vid was waaaaayyyyyyy too long for youtube.
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In reply to Post #419
Doubt you'll see him fishing many day ticket lakes.
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Well, I quite like him.
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In reply to Post #410
He is why I avoid day ticket lakes like the plague, too many loud mouth Billy big balls chatting rubbish and generally being tits.
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In reply to Post #410
That comparison of Ellis to Sean Bean’s character in Ronin is absolutely priceless  
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In reply to Post #408
Clearly there’s not a ‘nut’ ban on Burghfield then. 
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