fao bert [record tadpole fish]

[BILLYB]

Hi bert i have solved the cert for the scales my scales have just been passed again by trading standards and the bloke is going to drop in a cert in the next couple of days so we can send it off to the moaning gits at the n f s a and you will be able to get your record at long last for your british record tadpole fish, sam harris give me a hand in contacting the trading standards so we have to thank him for his help, so if you or keith can call in at the weekend i will give you the paper you need to prove your record

[TC]

Hallow Billy.
I thought you\'d been abducted by aliens

[BILLYB]

Hi tony just been busy not much chance to use the computer for pleasure at work and the wife uses the computer at home all night so i cannot get on it. but i am still here on the sidelines and still looking in

[TC]

Lol Billy.
Tell her that viewing too much internet porn is bad for eyes.

[LING_BASHER]

The record system is total balls and everyone knows it, why dont they do somethign about ti and make it easier for people to claim records and so on

[Tadpoleman]

Cheers billy i cant thank you enough This record claim has now been dragging on for 3 years now with lots of letters to and fro but nothing seems to be getting sorted !! This means a lot to me mate thanks for your help and to Sam also because without your time and effort it wouldn`t of got anywhere ! Alan Charlton also had a few words for me but it seems like there is a lot of red tape to cross before you can get a claim validated !! Even though the fish is now in the Natural Science And History Museum in London pickled in alcohol under the watchfull eyes of Mr Crimmon (the bloke off the Mat Heye`s fishing programes !!!!) and he identified it and said they have not got one and would take great pleasure if i would donate it to them !
Its now on a shelf next to specimens from Charles Darwin.....etc
So lets hope that this is the final hurdle and my claim will be in writing - print soon
Thanks bert

[Red5]

Well done Bert!

[Charlton]

What puzzles me is, that if there was any query about the fished weight, they have the bloody thing preserved, why not weigh it themselves, being oickled it should not have lost much weight in the first couple of weeks.

[Stores]

Last time I was oickled I lost half a stone lol

[BILLYB]

long benton & seatonburn club left the n f s a with all the cockups they did but the grief bert has had is because,bert is a northen angler taking a southern record,if the fish had been caught down south it would be in the record books by now

[Tadpoleman]

Well Billy you may be right there mate and we will have to see !! may-be he might know the bloke who holds it ??? The main thing is that all the info needed to sort out the claim is sorted so only time will tell....fingers x`ed
Thanks for everyones help who has been involved
Its another waiting game once again
but now my name may be true.................................lol
bert

[Tadpoleman]

Never got the chance to thank Alan Charlton in person for his \"SCOOP\" of a potential British Record ................ but hopefully will do soon
cheers mate
bert

[TC]

And I thought Councils took a long time to make decisions......3 years is ridiculous
Suppose somebody else had caught a heavier specimen during that time......would Bert have received ANY credit for his catch?

Why not post a picture of the fish, Bert.
There\'s been a lot of new members join during those 3 years and they won\'t have seen it.

[KeithB]

[Charlton]

No sweat Bert, the previous record was caught at Christchurch Dorset, notice i said previous I regard your fish as a British Record already, fairly weighed, identified and recorded.