Rare or unusual fish that you have caught in the UK

[bluerinse]

What is the rarest or most unusual fish you have caught in UK Fresh Water?

 

Mine is a stone loach caught new years eve this year, (not very exciting, I know) in the river Arrow, or a bright red gold fish about a 1lb I caught on the River Windrush 10 years or more ago

I am sure there are plenty of you who have caught strange or unusual fish; I would love to know what they were.

 

Sorry if this thread has been posted before but since I have been a member I have not seen it.

[Neil G]

Not rare but I did find catching a Brownie on maggots a bit of a surprise out of what I though was a real dead stretch of the Avon

[Davy Holt]

Hiya,

 

Not really rare down South but I did catch a Bullhead in the river Cart in Paisley around 25 years ago, also had sone Loaches out of a local burn. I also used to fet a fair few Powan while fishing for roach on Loch Lomond

[oneillbox]

i caught a 1lb 5oz terrapin while floating bread on the basingstoke canal near aldershot in 2002.

[Houseplant]

1. a very large goldfish from a london dock at a time when it wasn't common to catch goldfish

 

2. sea trout/salmon on ledgered bread crust (see pic posted on one of the perch threads)

 

3. another sea trout/salmon caught from the queen mother reservoir in datchet when after rainbows (long story)

[lutra]

Caught this from a mill lodge in Lancashire. It bottomed out my 30lb scales so i can only guess at 30+ as a weight.

[nomadpaul]

Caught this from a mill lodge in Lancashire. It bottomed out my 30lb scales so i can only guess at 30+ as a weight.

That most certainly is a rare and unusual looking beast Lutra.....The catfish looks quite normal though

[lutra]

That most certainly is a rare and unusual looking beast Lutra.....The catfish looks quite normal though

 

[nomadpaul]

[StuGlynn]

i caught a 1lb 5oz terrapin while floating bread on the basingstoke canal near aldershot in 2002.

 

 

Rumor has it there was a terapin in the red ponds at wigan, that was years ago I never saw one and I think that might be forgotton now, there used to be a warm strech of canal too where a pet shop aparently emptied his tanks before going bust?

Anyone heard these before?