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This is an impartial (not implicitly biased to a single governing body, the BRFC) and comprehensive record list of 310 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]
After collection the fish was transported to the zoo's aquarium and put on public display. Walker had named the carp Ravioli but the fish was renamed Clarissa. Walker's record held to 1980 [9] when it was beaten by Chris Yates' 51 lb 8 oz fish [10] The current BRFC recognized record currently stands at 68 lb 1 oz held by Dean Fletcher caught in ...
The earliest known list of fish from the River Trent was from 1641. Although the list contains thirty names, one of them is not a fish by modern standards, but an edible crustacean, the crayfish. The list also includes some fish names that no longer exist in modern English, such as Frenches and lenbrood; these species are therefore ...
The Angling Trust organizes and strategizes activities towards achieving conservation of fish populations and habitat, protection of angling and anglers, increasing government and EA support and funding for angling and fisheries, assists control of nuisance predators, campaigns to prevent poaching and theft of fish, protects angler's rights, provides education and coaching to anglers and the ...
This is a list of freshwater fish pursued by recreational anglers. Alligator gar; American paddlefish; Amur catfish; Amur pike; Arapaima; Arctic grayling; Asian arowana; Asp (fish) Atlantic salmon; Atlantic sturgeon; Australian bass; Australian grayling; Bagarius yarrelli; Barramundi; Basa (fish) Bayad; Beluga (sturgeon) Biara; Black arowana ...
Although members originally fished for all sorts of fish (the society's crest still represents the head of a pike), the society now concentrates on fishing for brown trout and grayling with upstream dry fly or unweighted nymph imitations dressed lightly in the style of G. E. M. Skues. [citation needed] The Society has, at its core, three key ...
[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.