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A 6lb 4oz Perch

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Stunning fish.

Stephen

 

Species Caught 2014

Zander, Pike, Bream, Roach, Tench, Perch, Rudd, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Eel, Grayling, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout

Species Caught 2013

Pike, Zander, Bream, Roach, Eel, Tench, Rudd, Perch, Common Carp, Koi Carp, Brown Goldfish, Grayling, Brown Trout, Chub, Roosterfish, Dorado, Black Grouper, Barracuda, Mangrove Snapper, Mutton Snapper, Jack Crevalle, Tarpon, Red Snapper

Species Caught 2012
Zander, Pike, Perch, Chub, Ruff, Gudgeon, Dace, Minnow, Wels Catfish, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Roach, Bream, Eel, Rudd, Tench, Arapaima, Mekong Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Marbled Tiger Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Thai Redtail Catfish, Batrachian Walking Catfish, Siamese Carp, Rohu, Julliens Golden Prize Carp, Giant Gourami, Java Barb, Red Tailed Tin Foil Barb, Nile Tilapia, Black Pacu, Red Bellied Pacu, Alligator Gar
Species Caught 2011
Zander, Tench, Bream, Chub, Barbel, Roach, Rudd, Grayling, Brown Trout, Salmon Parr, Minnow, Pike, Eel, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Koi Carp, Crucian Carp, F1 Carp, Blue Orfe, Ide, Goldfish, Brown Goldfish, Comet Goldfish, Golden Tench, Golden Rudd, Perch, Gudgeon, Ruff, Bleak, Dace, Sergeant Major, French Grunt, Yellow Tail Snapper, Tom Tate Grunt, Clown Wrasse, Slippery Dick Wrasse, Doctor Fish, Graysby, Dusky Squirrel Fish, Longspine Squirrel Fish, Stripped Croaker, Leather Jack, Emerald Parrot Fish, Red Tail Parrot Fish, White Grunt, Bone Fish
Species Caught 2010
Zander, Pike, Perch, Eel, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Mirror Carp, Common Carp, Crucian Carp, Siamese Carp, Asian Redtail Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Rohu, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Pacu, Long Tom, Moon Wrasse, Sergeant Major, Green Damsel, Tomtate Grunt, Sea Chub, Yellowtail Surgeon, Black Damsel, Blue Dot Grouper, Checkered Sea Perch, Java Rabbitfish, One Spot Snapper, Snubnose Rudderfish
Species Caught 2009
Barramundi, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Wallago Leeri Catfish, Wallago Attu Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Mrigul, Siamese Carp, Java Barb, Tarpon, Wahoo, Barracuda, Skipjack Tuna, Bonito, Yellow Eye Rockfish, Red Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, Black Fin Snapper, Dog Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Marble Grouper, Black Fin Tuna, Spanish Mackerel, Mutton Snapper, Redhind Grouper, Saddle Grouper, Schoolmaster, Coral Trout, Bar Jack, Pike, Zander, Perch, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Common Carp, Golden Tench, Wels Catfish
Species Caught 2008
Dorado, Wahoo, Barracuda, Bonito, Black Fin Tuna, Long Tom, Sergeant Major, Red Snapper, Black Damsel, Queen Trigga Fish, Red Grouper, Redhind Grouper, Rainbow Wrasse, Grey Trigger Fish, Ehrenbergs Snapper, Malabar Grouper, Lunar Fusiler, Two Tone Wrasse, Starry Dragonet, Convict Surgeonfish, Moonbeam Dwarf Angelfish,Bridled Monocle Bream, Redlined Triggerfish, Cero Mackeral, Rainbow Runner
Species Caught 2007
Arapaima, Alligator Gar, Mekong Catfish, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Pacu, Siamese Carp, Barracuda, Black Fin Tuna, Queen Trigger Fish, Red Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Honeycomb Grouper, Red Grouper, Schoolmaster, Cubera Snapper, Black Grouper, Albacore, Ballyhoo, Coney, Yellowfin Goatfish, Lattice Spinecheek

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what a great specimin !!! shocked it was that big too , i now know where i am going in the winter :D getting me a big perch hahaha absoutley shocked !!! congrats to the guy who caught it too

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Massive fish, caught at the right time, never mind what it will weight in April/May when full of spawn.

 

In light of a few recent threads, I wonder how it would fare in a guess the weight comp, with just the photo to judge it on?

 

John.

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Massive fish, caught at the right time, never mind what it will weight in April/May when full of spawn.

 

In light of a few recent threads, I wonder how it would fare in a guess the weight comp, with just the photo to judge it on?

 

John.

It doesn't look that impressive a fish in that photo to me, but it looks a bit better in this photo.

 

I think the one reported in the press last week from the frozen north (Here) looks bigger, but its nearly a pound and a half smaller.

 

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It doesn't look that impressive a fish in that photo to me, but it looks a bit better in this photo.

 

I think the one reported in the press last week from the frozen north (Here) looks bigger, but its nearly a pound and a half smaller.

 

I had no idea they went that big in Lomond.

 

Both crackers though, whatever the venue!

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In light of a few recent threads, I wonder how it would fare in a guess the weight comp, with just the photo to judge it on?

 

Not very well I think, even with Lutra's better pic it would have been a very brave guess to go for a 'six'. They must be the most difficult fish to estimate and at spawing time they just become footballs making it almost impossible.

It's never a 'six', let's put it back

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Massive fish, caught at the right time, never mind what it will weight in April/May when full of spawn.

 

 

John.

 

 

John,

 

please be assured that the following isn't meant as a contradiction to what you have posted, your right about it being the 'time' to catch 'em, but I have just come in and read this, straight from a well know trout fishery which opens for pike every Oct, I was chatting to a fellow who brought his boat in just after me, he had, had a decent fish (pike) of around 16lbs, which he reported stuffed full of roe. He even showed me the inside of his boat which was sprayed with the by them drying eggs, he said she was jetting out a stream of them as she swam off. I said that I had never concountered this in Oct, and he had dome his research and apperently they sometomes fail to swawn and simply hold the eggs in. I wonder have any of you observed this phenomenon, in pike ot in any other species? (I have with stockie trout, but don't consider then as wholly natural anyway).

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No problem Emma.

 

The weird weather we've had this year might account for the pike the guy caught. I'm pretty sure that pike can't reabsorb eggs after a failed spawning, like some other fish. I'm also pretty sure that they start developing the next batch, soon after shedding their eggs early in the year. Some coarse fish can spawn twice in a year in the right conditions. So maybe something (temperature ?), triggered this need to spawn earlier than normal.

I've seen it in roach and perch, but never heard of it in pike before.

 

John.

Angling is more than just catching fish, if it wasn't it would just be called 'catching'......... John

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