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Sixty-four-year-old Briton Ron Hopper (in a white T-shirt on photo above) was an avid fisherman from a very young age. Unfortunately in last December, doctors diagnosed a man with liver cancer on the last stage and said that he would not live long, moreover, without even leaving the walls of the hospital.
Having heard such crushing news, the pensioner most of all upset that he could not fly with his comrades to Thailand for the annual fishing holiday. However, in the end in the end, he still went to Asia at the Jurassic Water Park resort, however, in a very unusual way.
Hopper passed away at the end of March, and his remains were cremated. The man left a will in which, among other things, asked his friends Cliff Dale and Paul Fairbrass to turn him ashes in a bait for fish and use it in Thailand on the expected holiday. The British, who had known the deceased for more than forty years, did not hid their surprise, but decided that the request of the deceased in no case should one be neglected.
The men really took part of Ron’s ashes and flew into Thailand. There they mixed the remains with beef and used balls obtained as bait. And who would have thought that Cliff and Paul will win the fishing tournament, soon fished out Siamese carp of record sizes! The weight of the caught fish was more than eighty one kilograms! In the photo below you can see Ron’s contented companions, along with their gigantic catch. Carp was caught at night precisely on the bait from the dust of Hopper.
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The spirit of the fisherman helped friends win
Paul Fairbrass says: “The terrible diagnosis and death of Ron were woeful events in the life of each of us. But Ron doesn’t even I thought to lose heart. In his will, he not only asked us turn his ashes into bait for fish, but also ordered us have fun for three. He wrote, not without a sense of humor, that wants to be fish fed. When Paul and I caught this carp, for some reason they immediately realized that Ron foresaw this, and at the moment fishing may even have helped us. He clearly left such a reason extraordinary testament. Well buddy this catch is the same merit on your part, as well as ours. I want to believe that you certainly was at this time with us. ”
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According to Dale and Fairbrass, they called this bait “Purple Ronnie.” The fishermen have about half left balls, and they decided to freeze a rare bait, to use it at the same thailand event in the next year. Suddenly lucky again. Or rather, even to say this: suddenly the spirit Will Rona help win again?
The organizer of the holiday, Eddie Mowns, was so moved a British story that he promised retirees to be named after them friend of one of the local fishing competitions. Mowns is convinced that this whole story gives real mysticism, but in Thailand it’s just love mystical stories.
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