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There have been many ambiguous record claims over the years. Here are a few of those that never made the record list: 21 lb 2 oz barbel caught by Chris Mack on the Wensum 2008. No independent witnesses to the weigh in. 5 oz 8 dr bleak caught by David Selley on the River Lark 2017. [226] Rejected as a hybrid by BRFC. [227]
Original reasons why a record fish claim may be rejected:- 1. Fish not caught by the fair angling method of using rod and line fish hooked in the mouth by baited hook or lure. 2. Captured with assistance, fish must be played and caught by one person only. 3. Caught outside of the fishing season. * Note 1. 4.
Leigh, England: 18 30 July 1973 A mine-shaft elevator fell at the Markham Colliery. [111] Chesterfield, England: 16 10 September 1918 Protection Island mining disaster: A mine-shaft elevator cable snapped causing the elevator to plunge to the bottom of the mine. [112] Protection Island near Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada: 13 27 November 2023
The last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. 65,000: Year Without a Summer: 1816: Famine and typhoid fever in Ireland [16] and food riots in England and France, caused by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora affecting the weather. 60,000 [17] 1847–48 influenza pandemic: 1847–1848: Worldwide influenza outbreak. 52,627 [18 ...
Ambrose Smith England: 5 June 2010: Les Graviers, Dijon France [47] 42.64 kg: 94 lb: Martin Locke England: 6 January 2010: Rainbow lake, Bordeaux France [48] 41.28 kg: 91 lb: Nick Greenall England: April 2009: Les Graviers, Dijon France [49] 41.28 kg: 91 lb: Andre Komornicki England: April 2009: Les Graviers, Dijon France [50] 40.09 kg: 88 lb 6 oz
Richard Stuart Walker with the record carp Walker's birthplace at 32 Fishponds Road in Hitchin Richard Stuart Walker (29 May 1918 – 2 August 1985) was an English angler . Walker was the first angler to apply scientific thought to angling and wrote many books on the sport.
The project involved the transcription of 130 years worth of handwritten rainfall records – more than five million individual observations.
World War II interrupted fishing and after the war the technical developments in commercial fishing in the North Sea reduced herring and mackerel stocks and led to the disappearance of tunny. [1] In 2000 a 76-year-old pensioner using a fishing rod for the first time landed the largest tuna caught off the British Isles for nearly 50