Biggest Surprise/ Nuisance Fish?

[Dicky (Angling Trust PAC)]

What's your biggest accidental, nuisance fish, and how under-gunned were you for the fish landed?

Dr. Garner did it in style bream fishing at St.Ives with a nuisance carp of 56lb...

On a much smaller scale, I went roach fishing today on the Severn and failed completely... Single maggot, size 16, 3lb hooklink... only eels and bleak for my troubles until this 15lb 6oz basketball came along!

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[Paul H]

You look much more like Paul Garner than I remember mate!

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Ha ha, one quick edit later.

 

[Dicky (Angling Trust PAC)]

You look much more like Paul Garner than I remember mate!

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Ha ha, one quick edit later.

I think you'll find I look more like Johnny Depp....

 

[peter crabtree]

A mate of mine lives in Spain and fishes one of those big rivers for carp, he reckons the nuisance 3lb roach are as bad as the bleak on the Thames..........

 

[Poshpaul (Angling Trust and PaSC)]

he reckons the nuisance 3lb roach are as bad as the bleak on the Thames.

Now you will have gone and upset Steve!!!

 

[Dicky (Angling Trust PAC)]

Now you will have gone and upset Steve!!!

LOL! Apparently Steve's changed tack and has been after river carp recently but according to his mischievous brother he's still struggling to find those nuisance 2lb roach! :j

 

[Paul H]

I think you'll find I look more like Johnny Depp....

Keith Richards maybe...

 

[quickcedo]

I remember fishing the Teme for Barbel using a 10mm pellet and a size 10 wide gape hook. I caught a gudgeon which must have been over 4oz farely hooked inside the mouth. Unfortunately didn't have scales to accurately weigh it. Quite how the hook got inside it's mouth I have no idea coz it was bigger than the fishes mouth!
It was the biggest fish I caught all day!

 

[David Marrs]

Ha ****y, I had a 19lb 4oz Mirror Carp from the Old Nene in 99 on a 2oz skimmer livebait. It looked massive at the time and to be honest, it took ages to get in too! In addition, as a mere whipper snapper at jigging, I also had an 8lb 14oz river Bream first cast on a chartreuse 4inch shad a couple of years ago. (both hooked in the bottom lip, I'll pass on to the Carp Crew a few tips on hooking up their livebaits lol)

A couple of damn pesky PB's I can tell you!

 

[geoffmaynard]

I once had a 23lb mirror carp on a 3 inch perch livebait meant for catfish. Hooked in the corner of the mouth too.

 

[Steve Spiller]

A nice suprise ****y, bet it took some getting in.

Bream and chub whilst night fishing for eels on the river with bleak deadbaits.

(I gotta get a 2lber soon....everyones aving a pop now)

 

[Alan Tyler]

A couple of mid-doubles carp on single hemp meant for roach. Fun, but not roach.

 

[Sean Meeghan]

Early 90's, Parry Sound, Ontario. I was having fun catching walleye and small mouths off the rocks at the entrance to the harbour. The technique was to 'bounce' a lure off the boulders and the fish would pounce on it. You lost the odd lure when it snagged on some debris so I wasn't surprised when I snagged up. Then the snag set off into the lake at a nice steady pace! It spooled me in the end so I never found out what it was - possibly a big white sturgeon.

 

[noknot]

Years back, I was on a night session, and had a slow steady take on a fish meal / fish oil hookbait, did not feel like the intended Carp but still powerful, 17+ Pike! More recently it would have to be Cat fish, great fight but ugly buggers! Had them to 23+ so far on Carp gear

 

[dezza]

What you need ****y is a large handkechief, a tricorn hat, a cutlass and a parrot on your shoulder.

A - Aaaarrrggghh - Rum Jim Lad, rum!

 

[Pete Shears]

A perch of 3lb 4oz whilst float fishing lobworm for tench

 

[904_cannon]

A 14lb sea trout when I was after barbel. Then to make matters worse a $loody big 8lb rainbow had me all over the river. Thanks a million BADAC for allowing the river to become 'polluted'

 

[slime monster]

Noknot I was fishing a water some years back when the owner informed me there was a solitary catfish in there , he had no sooner left when I caught it at around 2.5 -3lb and the same species as the one you are holding or very similar I always thought it was an American Bullhead.

 

[rains]

A 10lb pillow case and asda trolly lol

 

[Paul H]

What you need ****y is a large handkechief, a tricorn hat, a cutlass and a parrot on your shoulder. A - Aaaarrrggghh - Rum Jim Lad, rum!

Ha ha ha!

:wh