a new record!

[zedhead]

has anyone seen the fantastic news that a new record eel has been reported? i never thought that record would be beat.

can anyone imagine a 13lb eel, what a fantastic fish, unfortionatley the club that control the water have a no publicity policy which means i will never see the magnitude of such a creature.

Also it was caught by a carp man accidentaly, what a shame that it wasnt caught by an eel enthusiast instead.

[Severn Wolf]

13lb

 

Can`t wait to see the photos of that one, shoud be impressive.

 

With you that it would have been better if an eel specialist had caught it though

[Severn Wolf]

Whoops, never noticed the no publicity bit!!!!

 

Surely a photo should be allowed to be published. Its a monsterous achievment to break one of the true records on the list. I never thought I`d see the eeel record going.

[Elton]

Not heard about this - that would be a monster!

[Pete Elleray]

Does it matter what it looked like and whether it becomes an official record?

[ben_weir]

It is 100 per cent true another Angler's Mail exclusive

[Peter M]

If true this is a very big eel but will it be a record if there is no publicity and no information sent to the BRCFC?

[Alan Stubbs]

My friends at work told me that the AM had an editorial accusing the club committee of living in the dark ages over their no publicity policy.

I read the editorial before posting this - it's just so much sour grapes from the AM - along the lines of 'we can't have a decent story for our readers so we'll cobble together some old stories and diss the club's committee.

 

It isn't the committee who are to blame at all - they represent the best interests of the members who elect the committee.

 

Amazing capture no doubt, and all credit to the man than caught it, intentionally or otherwise. What the AM fails to acknowledge is that through it's no publicity policy it will hopefully prevent yet another circus of record hunters descending on the place. Although the AM's piece tried as hard as it could to tell people where it is.

[ben_weir]

I can assure you that sour grapes is very far off of the mark!

 

We pulled out all the stops to make concessions with the controlling club in attempt to give the angling public the full story.

 

Would you rather an truly amazing bit of angling history be kept under wraps for the selected few?

[Peter M]

ben_weir:

I can assure you that sour grapes is very far off of the mark!

 

We pulled out all the stops to make concessions with the controlling club in attempt to give the angling public the full story.

 

Would you rather an truly amazing bit of angling history be kept under wraps for the selected few?

Ben it is nice to have someone from AM posting on here openly, hope you keep posting here.