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davidP Member

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Biggest - shared between two 55lb fish - vundu catfish in Lake Kariba & nile perch in Lake Nasser.

I did hook a very large freshwater stingray in the Amazon but lost it after about 90 minutes and never even got close to landing it!

 

 

Most unusual - puffer fish in Lake Nasser, plecostomus & candiru in the Amazon (both supposedly uncatchable on rod & line) (ps candiru is the one that swims up yer willy, although you'd need a damn big willy for this one to swim up!)

DISCLAIMER: All opinions herein are fictitious. Any similarities to real

opinions, living or dead, are entirely coincidental.

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I fish a canal in St Helens alot, but, last week I was talking to a very experienced man.

2 years ago he went to the amazon and had 1 swim up him, it died and he had to have the op. :D

Not nice!

he also had a Great white, in the pacific(1500lbs!!!).

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davidP,

 

Will you need someone to carry your rods for you on your next trip....pretty please..!!

Paul

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davidP,

 

Will you need someone to carry your rods for you on your next trip....pretty please..!!

Sadly I am now married so all trips of any exotic nature have stopped at least for the next few years

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Just to wet your appetite.... a few years ago a fossilised pike was unearthed in Russia. It was identical to modern pike in every way except in size. Experts have determined that when this specimen was alive, it weighed about 800lb!!!!

John S

Quanti Canicula Ille In Fenestra

 

Species caught in 2017 Common Ash, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, White Willow.

Species caught in 2016: Alder, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Crab Apple, Left Earlobe, Pedunculate Oak, Rock Whitebeam, Scots Pine, Smooth-leaved Elm, Swan, Wayfaring tree.

Species caught in 2015: Ash, Bird Cherry, Black-Headed Gull, Common Hazel, Common Whitebeam, Elder, Field Maple, Gorse, Puma, Sessile Oak, White Willow.

Species caught in 2014: Big Angry Man's Ear, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Common Whitebeam, Downy Birch, European Beech, European Holly, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, Wych Elm.
Species caught in 2013: Beech, Elder, Hawthorn, Oak, Right Earlobe, Scots Pine.

Species caught in 2012: Ash, Aspen, Beech, Big Nasty Stinging Nettle, Birch, Copper Beech, Grey Willow, Holly, Hazel, Oak, Wasp Nest (that was a really bad day), White Poplar.
Species caught in 2011: Blackthorn, Crab Apple, Elder, Fir, Hawthorn, Horse Chestnut, Oak, Passing Dog, Rowan, Sycamore, Willow.
Species caught in 2010: Ash, Beech, Birch, Elder, Elm, Gorse, Mullberry, Oak, Poplar, Rowan, Sloe, Willow, Yew.

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Originally posted by davidP

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Sadly I am now married

I hope your wife doesn't read you posts.

 

While I'm here, I'll mention a red-eared terrapin that I caught at Fishers Pond in Hampshire, on luncheon meat while fishing for carp.

It had one hell of a bite on it. My finger can bear witness to that.

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