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The salmon, known as the Great Tay Salmon, was 54 inches in length (137cm) and 28.5 inches in girth (72cm). [ 4 ] Her record was unchallenged until 2007, when another female angler, Bev Street, broke the record for largest caught freshwater fish by landing a 66lb catfish at Bluebell Lakes in Peterborough . [ 5 ]
6 lb oz perch caught by angler known as Bill from River Thames in March 2014. Assumed reason is lack of independent witnesses. 70 lb pike (the largest ever) found dead at River Endrick/Loch Lomond in 1934. [232] Not caught by rod and line. 5 lb 2 oz rudd caught by Adrian Cannon from a fenland drain 2012. [233] No independent witnesses.
The award was founded in 1972 by the noted fishing tackle manufacturer and retailer Mallochs of Perth and first presented to Lady Burnett for a 43lb salmon caught on the Tay. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Over the years winning fish have come from a number of Scottish rivers, including the Dee , Spey , Tweed , Tay and Naver . [ 1 ]
The biggest recorded taimen was caught in the Kotui River in Russia, and measured 2.1 m (6.9 ft) and weighed 105 kg (231 lb). [145] Some sources claim the largest is the Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) of America's Pacific Northwest, although this species falls behind the taimen in maximum size. [77]
A Pennsylvania angler caught his ‘unicorn’ fish Sunday in Erie. Colton Alex, 18, of Erie, was fishing in a tournament in Lake Erie when he hooked into a large Atlantic Salmon.
Coho salmon numbers have exploded in the Upper Willamette Basin to the delight of anglers and confusion of biologists. Coho salmon numbers smash records as 40K return to Upper Willamette Basin ...
The wild Atlantic salmon fishery is commercially dead; after extensive habitat damage and overfishing, wild fish make up only 0.5% of the Atlantic salmon available in world fish markets. The rest are farmed, predominantly from aquaculture in Norway, Chile, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Faroe Islands, Russia and Tasmania in Australia. Atlantic herring
The longest-standing record is for a 1.97-pound, 14 3/4-inch rock bass caught in Deer Creek near London on Sept. 3, 1932. George A. Keller of Dayton set that mark that has stood for more than 90 ...