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Alan Labas (left) and Wally Cubbin
Photo: Nick Drayson
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Alan: 'My wife's Australian but she's tried cooking carp every which way. Didn't like it. And yet we had friends who absolutely went mad on it. Hungarians and Croatians, they cook with a lot of spices and you can't taste the fish, you can only taste the spices. As a kid I fished in Slovenia and Austria and when we moved here I pretty well fished all around. The redfin's still the pick of the lot. If you get a big yellowbelly, it tends to be muddy. Redfin are always nice.'
Wally: 'We caught some about a fortnight ago at the channel. They were nice fish. We ate them. They were about a pound and a half.'
Alan: 'I caught seven one afternoon. Mind you I don't bait fish, I only spin. I had three 3-pounders and there were a couple that were about 2 pounds and a couple of slightly smaller ones, so I had quite a big bag full of redfin. We always give fillets to other people. I went one day last week and I got three, one was a real nice one but the others were a bit smaller, but still nice pan-sized reddies. So during the summer months I generally do all right.'
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