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Mark Mann
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A new version!! just got my head around the last!  lol
Learned a lot though!
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Viv Shears
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Mark,
thankfully things aint changed that much...just legislation etc etc so no new ground breaking ideas to master! lol
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Viv Shears
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Have just done a boit of digging around as to previous stockings that Simon and i carried out in years gone by with fish that Simon spawned. We stuck a handful in Sandhurst and to say they have done pretty well may be an understatement!
have a look .....
http://www.vsfisheries.co.uk/gallery/index.php?cat=9
If you have caught any of them from Sandy and wouldnt mind me using the pics they would be greatly recieved.
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richchappy
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that is some growth rate,
fair play
stunners aswell
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Viv Shears
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Have just got pics through of two of the fish that Simon and I stocked into wraysbury back in 2001. Neikther are doing to bad at upper 30's now . Click on the link above and you will see them there... this year may see a couple more 40s appear in Wraysbury I think!!!
Still trying to track down a couple of the other ones we introduced at the same time.....
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bigkipper
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Click on the link above
there is no link above viv or am i blind mate 
thats a great result mate how big were they stocked?????
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there nice looking carp viv well done fella. 
good luck in tracking down the others 
mind blowing growth 
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Viv Shears
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Just to keep you updated on whats happening on the farm.
All the fish are out now and we have just completed our first spawning of the year.
Over 1 million eggs from 3 lovely females were spawned and are now first feeding fry which will be stocked out over the coming days into the fry ponds. All Sutton strain and we will keep you upto speed as they grow.
Now for a warm summer, feeding fish and a little bit of a quiet period !
Viv
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Viv Shears
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Managed to get pics of C Scale and Lucky from the wraysbury stocking mentioned above. Viewable if you follow the link in my posts above!
Scaley from Sandhurst has now done 40 as well...so thats 3 out of 7 introduced that have done it! Pretty good strike rate I think !!!!
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Steve Howard
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Stunning stuff Viv... you must be chuffed to bits with those beauties mate - well done sir, you and Simon have produce some real smile-producing corkers for the world of carp angling and should be very justifiably proud guys! 
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Hi All,
Just a quick update on the farm.....
fish are growing well at the moment with 3 inch sutton & leney crosses stocked in April now over 8oz !
The big fish are feeeding hard too
Even more exciting is the fact that we have just had planning approved for another 7 acres of ponds which we plan to build this summer. First harvest from these fish will be in November 2009 all being well!
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JAFFA
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Viv call me an annorak buddy, but I would love to see some of your work in action buddy. Do you ever hold "open" days or the like?
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Viv Shears
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Jaffa
If i could squeeze it in i would love too....... but time is tight with the full time job and the farming business too. Think I may have to create a blog page on the website so that we can put up regular updates on whats going on with the fish and the farm. Perhaps I will investigate this further. Would people be interested in it???
We were asked to do a series for a production company but we couldnt fit it in due to commitments elsewhere and it was supposed to be a bit like Jimmys farm if you have seen that. But we may look at doing it in the near future when time allows.
On another note just had a call from someone that has just landed a fish that i stocked in 03/04 at 11lbs which now weighs 33. Not bad at 5+lbs a year. Hopefully will get this up on the site soon once i have got pics and the go ahead to use them.
Perhaps I will see if i can get steve down for a day when we are harvesting to show VS Fisheries in action so to speak . Mite be a nice follow up to our first article.
Viv
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Viv Shears
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Well over the last few days we have sampled a number of the ponds to check on growth rates and all I can say is WOW !
The little Sutton and Sutton x Leney babies are flying with many already around 10oz and seeing they were 1oz back in March thats some going!
The fry that we spawned back in late May..i think... are doing well as well with many around the 2 inch mark as well.
Some of the C3s (5lbs ish) that we kept back to ongrow have hit double figures already and still have a good 2.5 months of growing season left. God knows how big they are going to be! The others are around 7 lbs now so look to be aiming for them to be 9lbs + by harvest at least.
Very good growing weather at the moment so fingers crossed for a decent remaining few months before the big job of harvesting them starts!
PS Watch out for pellet prices rocketing in the shops.....trade wise they have increased by about 20% already this year!!!!!
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Viv Shears
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Have updated some pictures on the site where there are new ones of this years sutton strain fingerlings and also pictures of the recently completed new part of the farm! Exciting times!
3 weeks and harvest time begins for us at VS Fisheries!
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Viv Shears
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Well its that time of the year......Harvest time!
First small ponds have produced some brilliant and stunning fish.
First pond was one with fish that we stocked out at 3 inches in the spring. The best ones have now reached 3lbs whilst the majority are all around 1lb. Not bad seeing that they weighed less than 1oz when they went out.
On saturady our first small pond of 4 summer carp was drained down and fish that went out in the spring at 4.75lbs have grown to 9 - 13 lbs! Simply awesome and scaley too!
Big ponds next and we hope to have hundred of doubles, mid doubles and twenties being delivered in the next three weeks.
Keep an eye on the website for harvest shots as they come!
Viv
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They are incredible fish Viv, it must be hard to let them go 
You must be feeling very content with life at the mo.
One question
What did you want to be when you were at school ?
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