Hardest Fighting Fish.....

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Andy Pet

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In your opinions what would be the hardest fighting coarse fish in the UK?

Barbel

Carp

Catfish?

I know it would be size specific, but take an average fish for the species.

I've never fished for all of them but I can't find any comparisons looking through literature, internet etc

I'm only asking as I've just revisited the Passion for Angling DVDs, watched Chris Yates "Caught in Time" and am halfwat through "Casting at the Sun".
 
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Comparatively speaking, then the Grayling, Bleak and Dace would have to rate right up there as the hardest fighting fish.

Can you imagine the fight from a 6lb Grayling, a 1?lb Bleak or a 3lb Dace?
That would put the Carp, Barbel et al to shame methinks.
 
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carp in rivers.

then cats. then barbel.

craftiest

carp in rivers

then chub
 
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they do slime, their called barbel/forum/smilies/smile_smiley.gifand barbel specialists use Carp tackle to catch them
 
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i lost a very big eel once i never saw it but the chap fishing next to me said it was huge..around 6-7lb it got back in deep water and snagged me up after a fight from hell on big tench tackle.
 
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were you fishing for big tench at the time then ? or would little tench eat your bait too. I caught a conger eel in an estury when I was after smaller stuff and your right they fight like hell dont they.
 
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We have had this subject many times, and quite honestly I don't mind it.

The hardest fighting coarse fish?

I would say a male tench comes out near the top as does the barbel and the fully scaled long lean common carp caught from a river.

I don't rate eels, no matter what some say. I also don't consider grayling to be a coarse fish.

Graham likes Gobies.
 
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Warren 'Hatrick' (Wol) Gaunt

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Yawn..........

Eel, play a 10lberon your average rod and have endless hours of fun.

Most fish if you know what your doing you can adjust/control to the situation, except for the Eel, damn amazing creatures.
 
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Pound for pound the dace gets my vote but barbel for the sheer power.

Not a coarse fish but the hardest fighting fish I've ever had on coarse gear by a country mile.....mullet.Every one I've ever had went completely mental.They never give up.
 
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never an easy thing to do but i'm with Ron, the tench takes some beating.
 
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<blockquote class=quoteheader>trev (100M bronze) wrote (see)</blockquote><blockquote class=quote>were you fishing for big tench at the time then ? or would little tench eat your bait too. I caught a conger eel in an estury when I was after smaller stuff and your right they fight like hell dont they.</blockquote>
<blockquote class=quoteheader>yes big tench trev one of thse waters where if you hooked one it was usually a good size</blockquote>
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)

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I agree as regards eels giving the most "resistance", but I still don't rate them as they don't make runs and they don't fight fair. They are one of the few fish that can swim backwards for example.

If the truth be known, I hate the terms "coarse" and "game" with regards to the various species of fish but is you want to apply it you have to admit that the grayling is nearer a game fish than a coarse fish.

By the way Peter do your fish swim on golf courses or is it horses for courses!

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The mullet, and the Thwaite and Allis shads leave them all behind of course. But these are migratory fish between fresh and salt water.
 
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