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Mark Ramsden:

"if i could catch a record.....i think it would have to be a chub, very hard to catch, old, wise, seen most tricks...one close to double -figures would be nice-"

 

i agree chub are bout the most weary of fish a bigun would be a prize indeed

oh yes...big old wary chevin,hopefully i'll break the 6 pound barrier this year,a double may well comefrom the pits before a river produces one,tho the river would be the one...

AKA RATTY

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Tench a really huge TENCH , done the perch thing might have to change my picture if a get a really big TENCH this year

just one more cast then I'am off home

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I've had an eight pound plus Chub slip from hand as I tried without success to lift it from the water without a landing net. A truely awesome and impressive fish (not to mention a very annoying one) that could never have qualified for a UK record becuase it was hooked and lost from a little river feeding a lake in France....

 

A dream UK record though would have to be a Grayling on a lure.

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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I'd love to see a record pike from the Upper Thurne... a big, croc-headed monster that had lived its life feeding on slab-sided bream in a private backwater until the fateful day that it decided to swim out and intercept my surface lure. Luckily, at about 48 lb, it would be far too big and fat to fight hard enough to beat me.

 

I'd also like to see a record roach from a river. An ugly, rather battered ( a bit like me) that had managed to survive all the minor pollutions, encounters with predators and anglers, and somehow topped 4 lb with a few ounces to spare. I'd like to catch it in winter, please, while link-legering with bread, just as dusk was falling and the sky was pink.

 

Dace. Now there's a record. It would have to be from a chalk-fed Norfolk river that flowed west into the Ouse or Wash. It would have a chest like a wood pigeon and I would have to catch it on trotted maggots. One like the one I spotted off a certain bridge over a certain river that fitted the description above would do nicely. But it wouldn't be the same one, beacuse that was over 25 years ago.

 

Carp? My biggest have all come from rivers (or rather a river) followed by gravel pits. But they don't really count. A record would have to come from a muddy, ancient lake. One on an ancient estate that was stocked with Leneys many decades ago and forgotten about. A battered old mirror older than me would do nicely.

 

Zander... it would have to weigh 20 lb and come from the spiritual home of all zander: the Great ouse Relief Channel. Somewhere between Stow Bridge and Downham, please. And I would like it to come by accident, while fishing for pike. That's how most of my best zander have arrived... and they are all the more welcome for that.

 

Chub. Yes please. From a little-known tributary, intimate and overgrown. But it winter, if that's okay. I do hate getting stung and sweaty catching skinny chub in summer. I'd like it to come late in the day when there's still enough light to see it without the aid of a torch. Must be caught on bread.

 

Catfish. They don't count with the powers-that-be, but they do with me. A stray that had somehow escaped into the Great ouse and grown massive would be okay. Preferably towards the end of a rather slow day's predator fishing. Something in treble figures.

 

Rudd. If that usurper from Ulster hadn't beaten the Rev Alston's record, I would prefer not to catch one. But history's history and it would be nice to catch one from where it belongs... a natural Norfolk lake. Ringmere, the scene of Alston's 1933 triumph, is a bit doubtful... whenever I've been there it's been dried up. But it would have to come from Norfolk, in the middle of a summer's day, to a surface-fished bait.

 

Perch. I'd like to pass on that one. The record is held by a lad who caught it by accident from a water it wasn't expected from. That, to me, makes it the loveliest record fish ever. I'm 38 years too old to beat it.

 

Bream. When I was a teenager, and when the bream record was of a manageable size, I knew a river where record bream lived. Couldn't catch them, though. Today, a 13 lb bream would mean nothing in national terms. Isn't that sad?

 

Tench. A 5 lb tench used to be a specimen. Today they're everywhere. The world's gone mad. I'm not interested any more. Let the record go to someone who appreciates it.

 

Eel. Now, I don't like eels very much. Nothing personal, I treat them respect, but spending most of my fishing life in East Anglia at a time when the bottom of every water was paved with them put me off a bit. But the prospect of anything over 5 lb is mind-blowing. These are fish with no names. A record of 12 lb or so would be simply awesome. ANd I wouldn't want to catch it. It's a record I would like to see go to one of those eel specialists who hae devoted their lives to pursuing them. If there are eels in heaven, I sincerely hope that John Sidley has caught stacks of doubles. Me? It would be a trvesty if I fluked out what has to be the record of all records.

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an 8 plus slip from the hands...id be a broken man..i bet it was a stonking chevin,fenboy that was a brilliant post made good reading..shame i was supposed to be working!!not on the net..

AKA RATTY

LondonBikers.Com....Suzuki SV1000S K3 Rider and Predator Crazy Angler!

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Broken ?

I was expecting little trout and only had a light lure rod with me.

I had to clip the hook of a jig head for a casting weight and rummage about for a snail for bait when two huge ghostly shapes drifted through my swim refusing to even look at a lure.

The bait was right under my rod tip next to a tree and I'd looked up to watch the smaller fish of about 6lb drift accross the current from the deep hole below me.

Next thing I knew, all hell broke loose as the big-un tore off with the bait that I'd taken my eyes off. I set the hook easilly enough with the braid but discovered that both legs had gone to sleep after 15 minutes crouched motionless waiting for a bite. After almost falling head first into the river, I got up and got things under control until......

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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