{"id":1608,"date":"2010-01-08T14:59:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T13:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2013-11-23T09:45:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T08:45:38","slug":"carp-fishing-pumpkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/carp-fishing-pumpkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Carp fishing &#038; pumpkins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"CT-Xtra-Body-Text-P\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"CT-Xtra-Body-Text-C\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/01\/world-record-pumpkin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1610 aligncenter\" title=\"Mehdi Daho and his World Record Pumpkin\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/01\/world-record-pumpkin-300x242.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"CT-Xtra-Body-Text-P\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"CT-Xtra-Body-Text-C\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\"><em>Taken from Carp-Talk Xtra<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"CT-Xtra-Body-Text-P\">So why on earth do we have a picture of the new (1,457lb) World Record pumpkin in this week\u2019s Carp-Talk Xtra?<\/p>\n<p class=\"CT-Xtra-Body-Text-P\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2882 alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/01\/pumpy.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/01\/pumpy.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/01\/pumpy-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Well firstly it was grown by Mehdi Daho who is the owner of the popular Angling Lines venues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/venue\/old-oaks\" class=\"kblinker\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More about Old Oaks &raquo;\">Old Oaks<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/venue\/laroussi\" class=\"kblinker\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More about Laroussi &raquo;\">Laroussi<\/a> and secondly he decided to put the outer flesh of the fruit to good use and what could possibly be better than turning it into a water going vessel capable of holding up to six people!<\/p>\n<p class=\"CT-Xtra-Body-Text-P\">He then put the \u00a0pumpkin\/boat to better use, using it to land a couple of hard fighting carp from his own lake, the biggest of which was this 40lb specimen below. The fish fell for a Quest Baits Fruity Trifle boilie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from Carp-Talk Xtra So why on earth do we have a picture of the new (1,457lb) World Record pumpkin in this week\u2019s Carp-Talk Xtra? Well firstly it was grown by Mehdi Daho who is the owner of the popular Angling Lines venues Old Oaks &amp; Laroussi and secondly he decided to put the outer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,79,634],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carp-fishing-news","category-laroussi","category-old-oaks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}