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Million Dollar catch for modest fisherman

article-1304145-0AD5062C000005DC-682_634x423Fairytales aren’t normally something that your ‘average Joe’ can relate to but that’s not the case for 35-year-old Guy Barnett who has one hell of a fairytale up his sleeve, and it’s a true one!

Guy used to make a living out of taking tourists out to sea for a spot of mackerel fishing, not carp fishing unfortunately, off the coast of Dartmouth in Devon. He’d venture out daily on his 80-year-old fishing boat and one day set sail from the harbour.

He came back eight years later on a £100 million super yacht!

He left his fishing life behind to go and work for John Risley, the owner of seafood giant Clearwater Seafoods, which have the largest fishing fleet in North America and Canada, and whilst out there working on one of the business mogul’s boats he met the man’s daughter, Sarah, also aged 35.

The pair fell in love straight away and married last Friday in Canada in a place called Nova Scotia before they began their epic journey back to Devon for their wedding reception on Tuesday.

Ironic how Mr. Barnett went out everyday fishing for a fortune and then one day left to fish further a field for a fortune and ended up marrying into one. Well, as they say, there’s plenty of fish in the sea…

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Disabled boy attacked by youths with a live Carp

In what must be dubbed the strangest and disheartening assault we’ve heard of for a while, a disabled boy was attacked at Lauriston Castle by a group of yobbish youths with a live carp. The sickening attack took place in the grounds of the popular city attraction in Cramond near Edinburgh in broad daylight.

The youths are said to have caught a carp from one of the decorative ponds within the gardens of the castle and attacked the young boy and his carers. Thankfully nobody was injured.  The attackers are still on the run but one of the groundskeepers has spoken about how the “sickening” attack is just an example of how things have started to go down-hill in the last year or so in the Japanese gardens.

Groundsman Chris Murray, aged 58, said how the gardens of the castle have become a bit of a ‘hotspot for teenage drinking’ which had in turn led to an increase in vandalism and general loutish behaviour. How would you like to be taking a leisurely stroll through the grounds of this beautiful castle to be savagely attacked by a group of youths with a live fish?!

Murray also said how a number of youths from the surrounding areas “have got wind of Lauriston Castle as a place to hang out, drink, smoke cannabis and trash the place.”

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but we thought this was such a crazy bit of news, it required mentioning!

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Fishing officially the most dangerous job in the UK

Shocking statistics have revealed that fishermen in certain parts of Britain have a one in 20 chance of being killed, yes KILLED, on the job during the course of their working lives. Figures that emerged recently revealed that in 2009, 13 fishermen were lost at sea which is up from just seven the previous year.

The stats are based on sea fishing and not course fishing, so don’t panic too much if your fishing activities are limited to a spot of leisurely carp fishing with your dad – unless you can’t swim! But in all seriousness, it’s not like being stuck out in the freezing cold Atlantic ocean with high winds and driving rain.

These findings were not far off when a survey was carried out in 2002 by researchers at Oxford University and they found that you are up to 50 times more likely to die while working out at sea than those people in other jobs. In fact you’re far safer being a member of the fire brigade, the police and even the army! The main cause of death while out at sea was found to be death by drowning but there were a sizeable number of deaths caused from asphyxiation and injury.

So if you want to go and catch a few carp, you’re much safer sticking to your local ponds and pits than venturing out into the sea to get your fish!

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