Now here is a really big perch!

[tiddlertamer]

Colossal carp in France.

 

Monster perch and zander in Holland.

 

As the enclosed link shows, a massive roach in Germany.

 

Are there any other European countries which hold the same species of fish as Britain but which also has specimens in excess of anything caught in the UK?

 

Monster Bulgarian bream per chance putting the much loved Wingham fish in the shade?

 

So does anyone have tales of titanic Romanian roach?

 

Plump Portuguese pike?

 

Bear sized Belgian barbel per chance?

 

Howzabout capacious Czech chub?

 

Anyone want to share their stories of fishing on the continent or tales they have been told of epic European fish.

Edited March 31, 2011 by tiddlertamer

[corydoras]

So does anyone have tales of titanic Romanian roach?

 

Plump Portuguese pike?

 

Bear sized Belgian barbel per chance?

 

Howzabout capacious Czech chub?

 

Anyone want to share their stories of fishing on the continent or tales they have been told of epic European fish.

Germany seems to be the place for big pike. Rod and line 55lb 1oz, netted 67.1 lb.

[tiddlertamer]

Germany seems to be the place for big pike. Rod and line 55lb 1oz, netted 67.1 lb.

 

The Czech Republic looks good for pike too.

I found the following online:

 

"The World Record Czech Pike

 

Clearly, even bigger pike swim in Europe than in the British Isles. The NFWFHF current world record, a monster 55 pound 15 ounce pike came from then Czechoslovakia's Lipno Reservoir, where at least six other pike over 38 pounds have been taken in the last 20 years.

 

Jiri Blaha took his 4 1/2-foot long pike on a large roach bait -- a European minnow much like our sucker. According to the report in Splash, the magazine of the NFWFHF, the 55-pound, 15 ounce pike was landed without a net or gaff. All records were carefully checked. The scale examination, weigh in and angler and witness interviews were done by Bedrich Hala, a Czech magazine editor. So this fish is now the NFWFHF all-tackle record. "