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Fishing is an ancient practice that dates back at least to the Upper Paleolithic period which began about 40,000 years ago. [4][5] Isotopic analysis of the skeletal remains of Tianyuan man, a 40,000-year-old modern human from eastern Asia, has shown that he regularly consumed freshwater fish. [6][7] Archaeological features such as shell middens ...
38 lb Ferox Brown Trout caught by old Willie Maule. Evidence destroyed by fire. 8 lb Burbot largest ever recorded in England, caught from the river Trent around 1700–1800. No date/also method of capture unknown. 83lb 4oz Mirror Carp "Big Plated" caught from Wingham syndicate carp lake in Kent, November 2017.
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]
Angling records of Europe. Drina River in Foča-Ustikolina municipality, East Bosnia. 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 ...
Kevin VanDam (born October 14, 1967), often called simply "KVD," is a professional bass fisherman from Otsego, Michigan. He is the all-time money winner in professional bass fishing, having earned $7,089,388 through August 2022 according to Major League Fishing. He has captured four Bassmaster Classic titles (2001, 2005, 2010, 2011), seven ...
The Tunny Club, East Sandgate, Scarborough Harbour, Yorkshire. Big-game tunny fishing off Scarborough was a sport practised by wealthy aristocrats and military officers mostly in the 1930s. The British Tunny Club was founded in Scarborough in 1933 and had its headquarters there. The Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus Thynnus) (or "tunny" as it was ...
The bigmouth buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus) is a fish native to North America that is in decline. [2][3][4][5] It is the largest North American species in the Catostomidae or "sucker" family, and is one of the longest-lived and latest-maturing freshwater fishes, capable of living 127 years and reproducing infrequently. [4][5][3] Even at a ...
North Carolina was home to the former all-tackle world record Atlantic blue marlin, a 1,128-pound (512 kg) fish that also stood as the world record for 80-pound (36 kg) class tackle for over 17 years. The state record, which stood for many years at 1,142 pounds (518 kg), was finally exceeded by a 1,228-pound (557 kg) blue taken off Nags Head on ...