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In reply to Post #37
Cheers mate, must admit I didn't realise it was there
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In reply to Post #36
ESP YouTube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o78eCXiXl8A
Chapter 15 in his book 'Through The Mist'
Rick Golder & Mark Dean (Kodak) have written about the lake over the years too - mainly in Big Carp mag back in the 00's.
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In reply to Post #30
where was his article printed? thanks
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In reply to Post #33
That’s the one
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In reply to Post #32
you're right - I missed that out - I think he got them from the netting of local lake via a local pet shop or something?
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In reply to Post #30
Is that the one that had a fish in called the little Grey? Tel done a vid on it.. 
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In reply to Post #31
I think thar lake in Kent. Was Chris Haswell garden pond..  
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fungus mirrors were in wraysbury 1.
dave lane wrote about them in Obsession. from memory, in 1995 they were stocked on the quiet from a lake in kent as there had been a lot of furore around new stockings after the fish kill on Horton a couple of years before. just after they went in, they appeared in the finger bays with white growths all over them that looked like fungus & some of them died. I think most of the ones that did get caught ended up being moved to the diving lake, however approx 5 remained including King Fungus that went on to approx 50lbs
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In reply to Post #25
Morris’s or Morrisons sometimes called
Run by Fox guys, Tell wrote about his fishing on there
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In reply to Post #27
Apparently they came from his pond the Fungus mirrors? He sold or gave Ian welch the fella that run RMC the Carp from his pond when he moved house.
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In reply to Post #13
There is a piece in Mike Willmotts second book where he discusses the source of the Mere fish with the guy that fished there in the eighties prior to even Jason, Alan etc. There was an even bigger mirror then known as Kinky that never got caught but was found dead. I'm sure that the BM was thought by him to have been stocked in by Kenny Hodder from Wraysbury 2, though it obviously could have been a Thames fish prior to this.
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I'm sure I read in Happy Haswell's book that Fungus and maybe a couple of others came from someone's pond.
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In reply to Post #25
I am not sure - that's the first time I have ever seen anyone give it a name - I always knew it as the Linear Syndicate & it has always been very private.
There were a few local rumors about where some of those fish came from back then (we're talking almost 40 yers ago) - certainly not from floods 
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In reply to Post #24
slightly on the same topic link, was the lake behind fox pool known as 'murphys'?
Used to have a ticket when I was a kid for it and fished for pike, full of snags, run by a club called 'wagtails'?
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I have caught a few fish with snub nose defects like that one from rivers over here - almost like a cleft lip (none of them as dark as that). They only seem to come from specific stretches but there are often more than one with that type of deformity in the area. I can think of 3 stretches off the top of my head but I can't remember catching many elsewhere.
They are all completely wild fish, 100% born in the river & all from areas with little or no angling pressure but there are certainly boats present so there could have been pollution when they were younger.
With respect to Thames escapees in the lakes in the area - you are probably right. I fished some very private AJ Bull pits (now filled in) at the bottom of the valley in the mid 80's, not too far from the mere & it was accepted that the 'originals' were all river fish that had made their way in during floods. I only caught a couple over the years - only mid-doubles, but they were both heavily scaled & looked like wild mirrors I see over here - gnarly, dark, spiky fins etc.
I seem to remember someone telling me that they thought the Mere Linear came from Colnbrook & they had seen a picture of it at a much smaller weight from years before from the lagoon which was renowned for flooding & of course, very close to the Thames.
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