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Back a few years ago (probably 25) i had just bought a new boat and i took her to the river Bann to try her out before i took her to the sea. Everything went well and on the way home i stopped at the little chineese takeaway in the village for my supper. Ah said Derek ( the owner) have you got new boat? Yeah i just got it. Have you any fish? No not yet. If you catch fish you tell me. Ok. Shortly after we headed out from Carnlough for a bit of fishing and hit a shoal of mackeral. We filled a bread basket and went home. I rang Derek and ask do you want some mackeral? Yeah yeah how many? 120 i replied. Oh no too many, how much are they? 10p each i replied £12. Oh yes i take them all. Sure enough 10 minutes Derek reversed into my drive in his mk3 escort, got out, reached me £12, opened the boot and lifted the bread basket of mackeral and tipped the whole lot into his boot and give me back the basket and drove off. They were scooting in below the seats everywhere, in below the spare wheel and anywhere else they could go. I can only imagine what that would have been like in bout a weeks time.

<blockquote data-quote="Tope Smoker" data-source="post: 156186" data-attributes="member: 1336"><p>Back a few years ago (probably 25) i had just bought a new boat and i took her to the river Bann to try her out before i took her to the sea. Everything went well and on the way home i stopped at the little chineese takeaway in the village for my supper. Ah said Derek ( the owner) have you got new boat? Yeah i just got it. Have you any fish? No not yet. If you catch fish you tell me. Ok. Shortly after we headed out from Carnlough for a bit of fishing and hit a shoal of mackeral. We filled a bread basket and went home. I rang Derek and ask do you want some mackeral? Yeah yeah how many? 120 i replied. Oh no too many, how much are they? 10p each i replied £12. Oh yes i take them all. Sure enough 10 minutes Derek reversed into my drive in his mk3 escort, got out, reached me £12, opened the boot and lifted the bread basket of mackeral and tipped the whole lot into his boot and give me back the basket and drove off. They were scooting in below the seats everywhere, in below the spare wheel and&nbsp; anywhere else they could go. I can only imagine what that would have been like in bout a weeks time.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Tope Smoker, post: 156186, member: 1336"] Back a few years ago (probably 25) i had just bought a new boat and i took her to the river Bann to try her out before i took her to the sea. Everything went well and on the way home i stopped at the little chineese takeaway in the village for my supper. Ah said Derek ( the owner) have you got new boat? Yeah i just got it. Have you any fish? No not yet. If you catch fish you tell me. Ok. Shortly after we headed out from Carnlough for a bit of fishing and hit a shoal of mackeral. We filled a bread basket and went home. I rang Derek and ask do you want some mackeral? Yeah yeah how many? 120 i replied. Oh no too many, how much are they? 10p each i replied £12. Oh yes i take them all. Sure enough 10 minutes Derek reversed into my drive in his mk3 escort, got out, reached me £12, opened the boot and lifted the bread basket of mackeral and tipped the whole lot into his boot and give me back the basket and drove off. They were scooting in below the seats everywhere, in below the spare wheel and anywhere else they could go. I can only imagine what that would have been like in bout a weeks time. [/QUOTE]

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