What's the small fish big gob record?

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I know that carp specialist complain when they catch bream and tench on there big boilies.

But I managed to catch (lip hooked) a Gudgeon, all of about 2oz of it, on two species of hair rigged corn and a 14 hook !!

Can you better this?
 
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No problem Mate, Last year on the Severn below Bewdley I had a gudgeon on a size 8 with a 14mmm halibut pellet wrapped with paste, I swear to god, John Jones was with me and I gave him a call to witness it. Bloomin bait was nearly as big as he was and what was worse it was the only fish I had all day. Such is my prowess as a big fish angler.
 
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I've had a gudgeon on a size 8 with a big lob worm on it. The worm was twice the length as the gudgeon, and wider too!!
 
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I had a wrasse at Shell Island last year about 2/3oz on, wait for it, a pennel rig with a 2/0 hook baited with a whole sand eel (second size 1 hook attached to the head) all tipped off with double lug worm!

Outrageous, it took me long enough to bait it, let alone describe it, the bait (hoping for a ray or bass) was probably 7inches long.

We regularly catch tiny whiting in the mersey on lumps of mackerel that would choke a donkey!
 
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Thats fairly impressive Jonny, but Graham that takes the biscuit, or should that be the pellet :)

Eddie your's sounds wicked to, but I don't know anything about sea fishing, I take it a 2/0 hook is very big. Nearest coast to me is 90 miles each way so it all sounds strange to me.
 
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yeah I know what you mean clikky, I lived in Worcester for a year and couldnt get my head round that you could drive for ages each way without going into the sea!
 
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I had a Royalty dace of about 3oz on a no.2 covered in cheese; it had to be retrieved from behind me because I thought it was going to be my first -ever barbel, and was worried about the cheese hardening, and struck accordingly!
 
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19lb 13oz mirror carp on a headless whole mackerel intended for pike.it was caught in the middle of january and was fairly hooked in the mouth.
 
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Alan Tyler, your the first to make me LOL, reminded me of my first attept to strike at bites when I was young. Many flying canal fish later I realised that may be I was being a bit rough!!
 
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For me a 2 1/2lb roach/rudd hybrid taken on 12 lb line and a 4 hook one a huge wadge of breadflake which I cast out for a carp on an Oxfordshire pit.

And a 1lb 12oz roach taken on a 4 hook on a matchbox sized lump of crust on the River Leam. I was after chub at the time.
 
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For me it was the smallest perch you"ve ever seen it was taken on the 20ft drain last year i was spinning for pike the lure must have been 4 or 5 times bigger than the perch!.
 
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One time a caught 2 gudgeon on the same hook it was a size 14 hook fair and square lip hooked one was slid up the line
 
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Had a gob on a small mepps spinner in cookham wier, trying for perch.
 
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