I’m sure it’s been on the carp forums – I did hear about it a couple of days ago now….

Just not sure how interested the users of Total-Fishing.com are in this kind of story?

it is the silly season on the news at the moment.
yesterday the news was that apparently art is now a giant pair of white underpants nailed to a piece of white card.
makes a change i suppose but the two words we’ll all be sick of before too long are double dip~think

Phew,i thought Terry Hall of the Specials had died~think

What the tabloids have run out of crap to write about MCFC ?

What a relief !!! ~sick

@Glenn Archer wrote:

I am surprised it’s getting so much media courage, must be the silly season. I don’t really think this site is that bothered about it, but quite funny how people perceive anglers…

Yes it is silly season. The country is more bankrupt than at any time before, people are blowing themselves and tens of others up to get to heaven quicker and see the virgins lined up

I heard on 5-live this woman interviewing Lee Jackson about what it meant to him and be-littling his achievement, she more or less said: so its just a waiting game then, chuck your rods out and hope for best. Suggesting anyone could catch it.

Anyone could catch it given a relatively small amount of skill, loads of time and of course the money to indulge their fantasy

Further to that they had people txting and describing why they go fishing, and others moaning about anglers (canal boat men, etc).
Slow news day obviouisly!

Two Tone reported as found dead on Saturday (14th) of natural causes.

Just a fish innit at the end of the day, just glad the poor thing is fianlly getting a rest.

maybe had a nut allergy~think

I see Terry Hall around Camden sometimes, generally looking suitably miserable. It looks like him anyway… only older.

Wonder how many Christmas dinners it would have made?

i await the specials come-back reunion tour- …and perhaps, a dug -up Doris Stokes interview with ‘Two-Tone’ on one of those paranormal sky channels.
Why not nominate photo’s of the fish to the BBC countryside file calendar and give someone with the right connections a kick-back to produce an arts focused ‘TWO-tone’ memorial statue with plinth, spot on the late show or BBC 2/C5 and perhaps even a pay-to view memorial service at Conningbrook?

Specials toured last year. Were pretty good though older and less angry! Madness at it again this Autumn.

Dis carp…. is comin’ like a ghost carp…

…. can’t go on no more….

I remember seeing Benson on TV when he died, can’t remember if it was this year or not but that was a good 60-70lb as well from what I remember.

God rest his sole, a verse will be read by Salmon Rushdie in the religious building that floats on the lake……. Bob Church

@Geepster (moderator) wrote:

Dis carp…. is comin’ like a ghost carp…

…. can’t go on no more….

mirror in the bathroom

Some of the comments just show the ignorance of today’s so-called “match anglers”….

I thought that some of the comments were very funny especially Darlo-toe and Geepster!

It’s a fish! I’ve got some other fish in my freezer that will probably be eaten over the next week or so!

Whilst I’m all up for fish welfare you have to put it into some form of context and I’d rather be an angler who couldn’t catch a fish because it died, as inevitably we all will, than the parent, friend, sibling or spouse of one of our troops that have either died or been injured in Afghanistan.

@One Out of the Frame wrote:

Whilst I’m all up for fish welfare you have to put it into some form of context and I’d rather be an angler who couldn’t catch a fish because it died, as inevitably we all will, than the parent, friend, sibling or spouse of one of our troops that have either died or been injured in Afghanistan.

Well said that man.

Did it die of obesity ?

Fat boy slim …. right here right now !

further to previous post in jest-saw a clip on sunday televion bbc nat. news of ‘memorial’ service for two-tone at conningbrooke with over 50 in attendance!
they have erected a tribute memorial plinth -‘here lies two-tone’ -even though two-tone’s carcass has been donated to the british natural history museum to be stuffed and mounted.
amazing.

latest dead fat big fish;
https://www.total-fishing.com/News.aspx?ID=Rumours_Rife_Of_The_Death_Of_The_Black_Mirror_Carp

perhaps a week of national mourning or black armbands in the bivvy is in order?

got better things to worry about then a dead fish…god, why am i even wasting my time on posting on this thread ? ~hand

I’d like to see an interactive documentary on ‘Two-Tone’ and think that this could well be a worthwhile commercial sponsorship opportunity for anglers to pay an entrance fee and pledge a percentage of their income to a corporate corporial sponsor to think about whether it would be viable to host a ghost written web update and if enough anglers show interest -give them an opportunity to purchase a part-plot time share in a ‘Two-Tone’ memorial garden somewhere- say £60 per angler with sponsorship taken into account?
Arrangements with a hire company could possibly be made to facillitate anglers ‘travellering’ to the garden?