Benson has died
 

No not HIM

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/08/47.jpg

But actually HER (the carp)

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/08/48.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today...00/8182827.stm

Re: Benson has died
 

I don't think posing for pictures out of the water is very good for a carp's health. :erm:

Caught 63 time suggests suicidal to me.:)

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Yeah, the look on its face says it all.

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She'd been eel for some time. Her sole has been gathered to Cod.

This isn't the time or plaice to carp.

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According to the lake owner anglers have been leaving nuts in the water which are poison to fish, Benson must have eaten some of the nuts hence the reason why he died.

He looks a picture of health and after catching carp myself he looks better than some of them I've caught, I've caught carp with one eye gone, fins missing and of a dull appearance.

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They don't poison the fish, but instead expand when wet so can burst the stomach of the fish

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Bearing in mind they were dry when they were eaten.

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Clicky linky thingy

A quantity of uncooked nuts, which are toxic to fish who swell up because they cannot process them, were found nearby on the bank.

Tony Bridgefoot, 53, the owner of Bluebell Lakes, said that the angling community was stunned by Benson's death.


Toxic when I was at school meant Poisonous.

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What Kymmy was saying, is that the nuts expand (when not pre-soaked) inside the fish. Thus causing Benson, (in this instance) the Carp to swell up.

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I know and it's the toxins that make the fish swell up.

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The article is extremely badly worded, The words poisonous and toxic is used where in fact it's nothing to do with why the fish died which from unprocessed nuts will be a rupture of the stomach due to them swelling.

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nut pickin or nit pickin!

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Both:D

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What I can't understand is how a carp got a job as a butler.:confused: :D

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As Benson the butler was first I don't understand how Robert Guilliame played a Carp so well???

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I suspect the Carp played Robert Guilliame from the start. Did you ever see him in any other roles...... he looked like a fish out of water. :Sprint:

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Never really watched him in Benson... BUT I was a great fan of SOAP :D

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Now that is going back a few years Kymmy;) that also used to be one of my favourites as a kid.
To me and my sister it was SOAP that made a late night on Fridays great, my favourite characters has to be Bert and his son Danny these two used to have me in stitches.

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Alien Bert was great as well, especialy the resulting baby...

Anyone else think that Billy Crystal looked great in a dress...As Jodie he used to make me laugh :D ;)

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What made me laugh is how after Soap so many of it's pee taking ideas were adopted by the 'serious' soaps. :D