World Record Pike

[Chris Bishop]

Pikelines published a grainy B/W picture of what was claimed to be a world record pike weighing 80lbs from Bulgaria.

What do people reckon..? Is it for real..?Click here for image.

 

[pcpaulh]

I don't like the bit in bettween the right hand person and the middle bit? Maybe just being a sceptic though. I recall a very large pike was netted in Germany in the past.

 

[pcpaulh]

 

[Steve Spiller]

Are those three geezers umpa lumpa's???

 

[Poshpaul (Angling Trust and PaSC)]

I remember seeing a documentary on the Bulgarian Nuclear Industry. The brave British t.v. crew entered this facility and started to measure the radiation from liquid oozing out of the valves. Almost immediately an expletive could be heard followed by that lovely shaky footage you get when a film crew decides to get the f**k out of anywhere.

Here we see the clear advantages of the Bulgarian Nuclear programme.

 

[Morespiders]

If thats real its 150lb plus, and some more,, its a hoax

 

[Poshpaul (Angling Trust and PaSC)]

Spiders,

That bloke in the middle ..short, impish grin, silly hat.....remind you of somebody?

 

[Steve Spiller]

Yep it has to be pants Spidee Man, I've seen pics of three men holding 150lb+ sturgeon.

It's fake!

 

[Morespiders]

Paul, he doesnt look stupid enough to be Corker. <blockquote class=quoteheader>PoshPaul (ACA) wrote (see)</blockquote><blockquote class=quote>

Spiders,

That bloke in the middle ..short, impish grin, silly hat.....remind you of somebody? </blockquote>

 

[Dicky (Angling Trust PAC)]

LOL nice one Chris! April is more traditional!

Fair play to the Umpa Lumpas tho, they certainly got the photographer's command to stand 'heroically' a la Prince George inBlackadder 3...

 

[Philip]

Modern clothes like cargo trousers but grainy black and white photo in a day and age when just aboutevery mobile phone comes with a colour digital camera.

Fake !

 

[Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)]

Agreed, it's a fake!

 

[Nobby C (ACA)]

Or this old B & W pic...:http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/hugegar.html

 

[kevin wyatt 2]

its just does not right to me i would have to say its a made up picture .

amazing what you can do to pictures now on a computer and the right software

actually there was 4 umpa lumpa's but the fourth was used as bait after seeing this fish in there swim /forum/smilies/big_smile_smiley.gif/forum/smilies/big_smile_smiley.gif

kevin

 

[Chris Bishop]

Had AT on about it today, they're going to track down the guy who sent the picture in to Pikelines.

 

[Paul H]

If I was the guy on the right of the picture I wouldn't have my hand that close to it's gob!

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[michael jones 4]

What could it possibly live on 2 get that big out there the umpa lumpa's have eat all the coarse fish it probably eat one of their mates!!!! defo blag!

 

[MarkTheSpark]

It's a fake, or maybe someone has run a 30 through a mangle before giving it a good stretching...

 

[Colin Brett]

<blockquote class=quoteheader>MarkTheSpark wrote (see)</blockquote><blockquote class=quote>It's a fake, or maybe someone has run a 30 through a mangle before giving it a good stretching...</blockquote>

Mark,

I'm sure you could now do a better job with Photoshop!/forum/smilies/big_smile_smiley.gif

Colin

 

[Jon Warrener]

Can't believe it got into the mag, or that you're asking people's opinions Chris. Probably the worst fake fish pic I've ever seen.