What is the smallest fish you have ever caught?

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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)

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For me it was a microscopic black bass caught on a size 14 Montana nymph!

I am not kidding but this fish was only about 13mm long and at first was difficut to identify. But by the aid of a magnifying glass I was able to confirm that it was indeed a Large Mouth Black Bass.

The smallest British fish I have ever caught, again on a fly too, happened the other day at Press Manor fishery. The fish was again very tiny and it took me ages to work out what it was.

But at home I confirmed that it was a stone loach.

What are your PBs for the smallest?
 
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i'm often amazed at the tiny fish you get on big baits, ive had bream not much bigger than razor blades on a pellet that you would not think they could get in the mouths
 
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BAZ (Angel of the North)

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You look much better without that dirty pipe.
 
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The Monk

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A Black Sea pipe fish, I glued a size 28 hook to the end of some line, just to see what they looked like
 
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not the smallest i've caught but whilst legering at Brundall on the river Yare just outside Norwich , i wound my rig back in and thought i'd snagged a small leaf on the hook which , on closer examination , turned out to be a tiny flatfish , approx 2 inches across Not sure what species it was. This is approx 14miles inland .
 
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Come on then!!!
Whats a Black Sea Pipe Fish?

I have cast out before with a single maggot on and hit a bite only to come back with two on the hook, but i am now led to believe that it is not uncommon.
 
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Coops

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Smallest I had was a perch that wasn't actually hooked, it was just so small it couldn't spit the single maggot out.

The best small fish was a tiny pike of about 3 ins long that I found in the margins. It attacked a worm dangled in front of it. Beautiful little fish.
 
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I caught a fry (not sure which species) off about 3cm on 4 hair rigged 6mm pellets.

Also had a tiny perch once on a baitless size 12 hook.
 
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The smallest fish I have ever caught was a 1 inch minnow that I had caught with my hands.

I did not bring really any lures along, except for the ones the fish were not biting and, I had run out of worms. I did not want to just leave, so I caught a minnow in hte shallows by luring it up with a piece of bread from my sandwich, and grabbed the little guy between my hands.

Long story short, I did eventually catch a good sized bass on him.
 
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Sticklebacks by design (for livebait)and accidentally,yesterday i was plumbing depth,couldn't find plummet so slipped on arlesey bomb and hooked a maggot on to stop it falling off,reeled in and there was the smallest perch i have ever seen.(bit later caught his grandad close to 3 lb.).
 
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Its one of these Murry, they are only a few inch long, like a seahorse oputstretched, not sure whaich one it was though?

MARINE PIPEFISH / SEAHORSES
Grey Pipefish Corythoichthys paxtoni
Sea Horse Hippocampus species
Leaf Fish Solenostomus species
Green Pipe Fish Syngnathus species
Yellow Pipe Fish Syngnathus species
 
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gudgeon on a size 6 hook and 15mm boilie is my smallest. (Caught 2 in 20 mins)
 
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I caught one that small you couldn't see it, so i dont know what it was. Sent the pics to Angling Times, got a Drennan Cup prize for the smallest fish ever caught that you could not see.

PS Its growing now, they think its a roach, or a perch.
 
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