Now here is a really big perch!

[Vagabond]

http://www.fishing-worldrecords.com/perche...luviatilis.html

 

...and lots more of interest on the same site.

 

Love the comment re the 22 lb 15 oz Australian fish ..... "questionable"

Over to Bobj

Edited March 27, 2011 by Vagabond

[SpecimenSean]

awesome!

[Andy Macfarlane]

That is awesome....blinkin' flip!!

[tiddlertamer]

http://www.fishing-worldrecords.com/perche...luviatilis.html

 

...and lots more of interest on the same site.

 

Love the comment re the 22 lb 15 oz Australian fish ..... "questionable"

Over to Bobj

 

 

Wow - an 8lb 4oz perch.

 

From a Dutch river.

 

Does this mean the UK could possibly have perch this size?

 

Any scientists/anglers on here care to speculate?

 

Has a combination of evolution and the split between the UK and Europe thousands of years ago meant that the perch species has developed in different ways in different countries?

 

Or, is it exactly the same species with exactly the same potential for growing so big in not only Holland but the UK too?

[larsagi2010]

Wow - an 8lb 4oz perch.

 

From a Dutch river.

 

Does this mean the UK could possibly have perch this size?

 

Any scientists/anglers on here care to speculate?

 

Has a combination of evolution and the split between the UK and Europe thousands of years ago meant that the perch species has developed in different ways in different countries?

 

Or, is it exactly the same species with exactly the same potential for growing so big in not only Holland but the UK too?

 

I would say its more down to the perch developing in different ways. Although the species of fish (Perch) may be the same both here and in the Dutch River in question.... The climate and species that surround the Perch will be most likely different.

 

Imagine if I eat Pasta for 10 years... And you eat McDonalds for 10 years..... Same species (imagine we were identicle twins) How much different would be now look/weigh based on our diets???

[Andy Macfarlane]

I doubt it. The pike and zander regularly go to 40lbs+ and 20lbs+ so something unusual is going on over there.

[Anderoo]

Strange though isn't it? Holland is very close to us geographically and very similar in nature to parts of the UK (East Anglia especially). So why do some species grow so much bigger there?

 

Or was this a one-off freak? Are 6s and 7s caught too?

[gozzer]

It's a great looking fish, but I wish they would hold it normally. When they push out to the camera, it almost looks photo shopped.

The rudd on the site looks like he's holding a cardboard cut out, or of a very stiff, battered corpse!

 

John.

[lozza]

have you seen the chub look like they are preping it for the table

[gozzer]

have you seen the chub look like they are preping it for the table

 

I just tried to look, but the link now takes me to an Italian version of 'Mothercare'.

 

 

John.