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This is an impartial (not implicitly biased to a single governing body, the BRFC) and comprehensive record list of 312 British record freshwater fish, past and present, involving 60 species/sub-species of fish caught using the traditional angling method of rod and line. Records include the angler, species, weight, date, venue, also referenced ...
The British Record (Rod Caught) Fish Committee-(BRFC) is the official organisation taking responsibility for all angling fish records within the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, collectively known as the "British Records". Since 2009 the BRFC has been part of the Angling Trust [1]
[6] [8] [12] [13] The British record which still stands is for a fish weighing 851 pounds (386.0 kg) caught off Scarborough in 1933 by Lorenzo Mitchell-Henry but in 1949 a larger fish weighing 852 pounds (386.5 kg) was taken on a 160-pound (73 kg) line by a Lincolnshire farmer John Hedley Lewis.
In 2020, Neville Fickling joined the board of the Angling Trust, he has held three British records, for the zander twice in 1971 at 12lb 6oz 8dr, [15] and later the same year at 12lb 13oz. [16] In 1985, he landed the British record pike of 41 lb 6 oz in Feb 1985, on the River Thurne .
On 7 October 1922, Ballantine was fishing with her father, on the Glendelvine Water, a salmon fishing pool on the River Tay.Following a two-hour struggle, she landed a 64lb (29kg) salmon, the largest recorded taken from a British river with rod and line, [1] [2] and half Ballantine's own weight. [3]
Italian fisherman Dino Ferrari caught a 280-lb. Wels Catfish Thursday in Italy's Po Delta river, setting a new record. The U.K. Mirror reported that the catch is the world's largest wels catfish ...
Venue for the capture of the 58 kg European record Huchen (Hucho hucho) in 1938 This list is of the heaviest European freshwater fish caught using the traditional angling method of rod and line. The criteria for inclusion on this list is that the species, weight, date and venue have been published by a recognized publisher with a genuine ...
Redmire Pool is near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, England.At only 3 acres (1.2 ha) in size it is considered by angling experts to be the home of carp fishing. [1] The earliest sign of its potential was unveiled on 3 October 1951 when a British record carp of 31.25 lb (14.17 kg) was caught by Bob Richards.