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Dean Fletcher's 68 lb 1 oz British record carp, called The Parrot, about to be weighed, January 2016 courtesy of Twitter. Neill Stephen's 9 lb 5 oz British record-equaling chub of 2012 at the weigh in, courtesy of YouTube. Oz Holness's 67 lb 8 oz British record carp, named Two Tone, being weighed in, 2008 courtesy of YouTube.
The carp had been caught at 69lb 13oz by Tom Doherty on 26 Sept 2016 at The Avenue, RH Fisheries in Shropshire and was subsequently caught again later by Robby Harrison at the largest weight for a carp caught in British waters of 71lb 4oz on 23 Oct 2016, [11] of which also rejected as an official British record.
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.
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 .
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 UK has a thriving carp angling market, with the British record carp standing at 68lb 1oz. [38] It is the fastest growing angling market in the UK, and has spawned a number of specialised carp angling publications such as Carpology , [ 39 ] Advanced carp fishing , Carpworld [ 40 ] and Total Carp , and informative carp angling web sites, such ...
[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.
Chris Yates is an angler, photographer, broadcaster, tea connoisseur and author born on 19 April 1948.He is a former holder of the record for the heaviest-recorded British carp, a 51lb 6oz specimen captured from Redmire pool in 1980. [1]