{"id":3706,"date":"2010-08-05T15:01:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:59:47","slug":"69-12-laroussi-mirror-for-15-year-old-chris-tsourou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/69-12-laroussi-mirror-for-15-year-old-chris-tsourou\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Laroussi mirror carp for 15 year old Chris Tsourou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3707\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/08\/lr1reduced.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/08\/lr1reduced.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/08\/lr1reduced-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/08\/lr1reduced-142x150.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/08\/lr1reduced-24x24.jpg 24w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>69.12 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/venue\/laroussi\" class=\"kblinker\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More about Laroussi &raquo;\">Laroussi<\/a> mirror for 15 year old Chris Tsourou<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We reached Laroussi\u00a0on the 24the July 2010.\u00a0 The weather was very hot so we set all our kit\u00a0out\u00a0and got comfortable before we even considered casting any lines.\u00a0 After marking out our spots we began baiting with the Hemp, Laroussi party mix and four different types of\u00a0hook baits; Halibut Pellets, Mailine Cell\u00a0Boilies, Quest Rahja Spice and Tiger Nut Boilies.<\/p>\n<p>Two days of baiting &amp; still no sign of a fish.\u00a0 On the 3rd evening the halibut pellet takes off&#8230; 1 hour 20 mins later&#8230; ping goes the 15lb line!\u00a0 The large Laroussi catfish got away!<\/p>\n<p>Day 4, Rahja Spice takes off.\u00a0 Felt like\u00a0a good carp, but again another one that got away.<\/p>\n<p>Day 4,\u00a0D rig with\u00a0Tiger Nut Boilie with sweetcorn pop-up that takes off &amp; in comes a 53lb Sturgeon.<\/p>\n<p>Day 5, D rig with cell boilie bleeps once, stops, same thing again,\u00a0bleep once, stops.\u00a0 Chris moves closer to rod ready to strike.\u00a0 3\/4 further bleeps, one after the other.\u00a0 Chris lifts his rod which is around 70 yards out on a gravel patch with about 6\/7 kilos of cell boiles baited out over the last\u00a04\/5 days.<\/p>\n<p>Funniest thing is that Chris turns round to me and says \u201cDad, it\u2019s only a small one\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An hour later and Chris is waist high in water and still no sign of the carp.\u00a0 I ask \u201cChris, how small you reckon it is then?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Out of breath he turns round with the biggest grin\u00a0I&#8217;ve ever seen!\u00a0 10 minutes later and the carp is in the net.\u00a0 There was a\u00a0quiet silence&#8230; just Dad and Chris looking at each other in disbelief; nearly a 70 pounder,\u00a0a life time fish caught by a 15 year old&#8230; were do we go from here?<\/p>\n<p>Dad needs a new fishing partner&#8230; but to Laroussi\u00a0&amp; Angling Lines&#8230; thanks for a lifetime memory and we cannot wait to go\u00a0back!<\/p>\n<p>Stavros Tsourou {dad}<\/p>\n<p>Chris Tsourou {son} and Ex angling partner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>69.12 Laroussi mirror for 15 year old Chris Tsourou We reached Laroussi\u00a0on the 24the July 2010.\u00a0 The weather was very hot so we set all our kit\u00a0out\u00a0and got comfortable before we even considered casting any lines.\u00a0 After marking out our spots we began baiting with the Hemp, Laroussi party mix and four different types of\u00a0hook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16608,"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":[925,1,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monster-carp","category-carp-fishing-news","category-laroussi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706","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=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30038,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions\/30038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}