Please note the “and”. Vegans AND shooting!

Last week I got a call from a local guy I knew who had trapped a coypu by his fishing lake. He wanted me to come over and break a hat in it’s bottom!

I went over, performed the aforementioned task, and conversation quickly went in a fishing direction. He has stocked his lake with carp, there’s plenty of roach, perch etc, and another guy has asked if he wants to go over and catch/remove the bream that have filled his lake!
He bought the house as he’d always wanted a fishing lake, did I fish? Come over anytime you want, I enjoy the company.

The only problem he has is the large number of copyu that come up from the local streams and undermine the banks of his lake. We chatted a little more which has ended up with me supplying him something to help control them. I then told him I had a great recipe for a pate you can make with the saddle meat.

”Oh no” he says “My wife and I are vegan, have been for five years now”.

I saw no hint of humour or leg-pulling in his face and pointed at the rather large carcass at our feet.

”Well I’m not going to eat it, am I?”

It takes allsorts.