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Camden New Journal - by SARA NEWMAN
Published: 15 November 2007

Andy Stone – latest claimant to the Heath anglers’ crown with his 37lb beast

Monster carp from the heath? They’re minnows next to Andy’s

THE Hampstead Heath anglers league table has a new leader. Plumber Andy Stone, 36, who lives in Bayham Street, Camden Town, is the latest contender for the king of the anglers crown, with a monster mirror carp he caught back in the summer of 2006.
Weighing in at nearly 37lb and beating last week’s Hampstead Heath catch by five pounds, he claims, this beast (pictured), was lifted out of what is known by regulars at the men’s swimming ponds as “The Big One”.
He said he had been cautious about coming forward because he did not want to encourage hoards of people to descend on their patch but he felt it his duty to put the New Journal right.
“I just wanted it to be known that this one is the biggest fish and it’s the one everyone there (on the heath) wants to catch” he said.
Last week former Haverstock School pupil Miles Macleod claimed the crown with a 32lb 4oz mirror carp he caught in the Highgate boating pond. This is next to the men’s swimming ponds, where in June Michael Hickson, the previous would-be champion, caught his 29-pounder.
But Mr Stone said: “There’s a little group of us who have been fishing for years and we all know each other, but them ones,” he said referring to the two other anglers previously featured in the New Journal, “I’ve never seen them before.”
He added: “Everyone knows the swimming ponds is the best pond for fishing.” He said he tempts the carp to his line the “old-school way” – by floating dog biscuits into the pond.

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