Your Best Catch

andreagrispi · Jun 24, 2013

What's your best catch?

Could be the total weight or a big fish or collection of large fish.

I caught my best catch today - what a catch, in 33 years fishing this takes top spot.

All caught during the day over 11 hours.

I caught:-

Bream: 13lb 11oz, 13lb, 11.12, 11.4, 11.3, 11.1, 10.15, 10.8, 10.6, 3 @ 9lb+, an 8 and a 7.
Tench: 8lb 15.5oz, 8.13, 8.12, 8.10, 8.1, 7.10, 7.9, 7.0, 8 @ 6lb and 4 @ 5lb+
Eel: 2lb 5oz

Total weight approx. 290lb

yellowtenchman · Jun 24, 2013

Well done that man.

Probly the pike I had the other day, size 14 hook 5lb line. Bread flake + a small rud that I was bring in. I don't really rate pike because I'm scared of em

I didn't have to unhook it the hook fell out, so all was well.
Not a great catch but i won't forget it.

A close second is my pb 18lb mirror freelined dog biscuit.

chav professor · Jun 25, 2013

shaunfox said:
What's your best catch?

Could be the total weight or a big fish or collection of large fish.

I caught my best catch today - what a catch, in 33 years fishing this takes top spot.

All caught during the day over 11 hours.

I caught:-

Bream: 13lb 11oz, 13lb, 11.12, 11.4, 11.3, 11.1, 10.15, 10.8, 10.6, 3 @ 9lb+, an 8 and a 7.
Tench: 8lb 15.5oz, 8.13, 8.12, 8.10, 8.1, 7.10, 7.9, 7.0, 8 @ 6lb and 4 @ 5lb+
Eel: 2lb 5oz

Total weight approx. 290lb

Wow..... Most people could fish for 133 years and not experience a day like that...

chefster · Jun 25, 2013

shaunfox said:
What's your best catch?

Could be the total weight or a big fish or collection of large fish.

I caught my best catch today - what a catch, in 33 years fishing this takes top spot.

All caught during the day over 11 hours.

I caught:-

Bream: 13lb 11oz, 13lb, 11.12, 11.4, 11.3, 11.1, 10.15, 10.8, 10.6, 3 @ 9lb+, an 8 and a 7.
Tench: 8lb 15.5oz, 8.13, 8.12, 8.10, 8.1, 7.10, 7.9, 7.0, 8 @ 6lb and 4 @ 5lb+
Eel: 2lb 5oz

Total weight approx. 290lb

That is one amazing catch mate,well done(my best day was 64 carp for approx 600lb on baggin wag and pellet wag at Clattercote,but that did,nt include any notable individual fish)Chef

captainbarnacles · Jun 25, 2013

I think my best ever catch was a 3oz roach caught in 1957 , I was 7 years old at the time and it was my first ever fish , one i shall never forget.

geoffmaynard · Jun 25, 2013

shaunfox said:
Bream: 13lb 11oz, 13lb, 11.12, 11.4, 11.3, 11.1, 10.15, 10.8, 10.6, 3 @ 9lb+, an 8 and a 7.
Tench: 8lb 15.5oz, 8.13, 8.12, 8.10, 8.1, 7.10, 7.9, 7.0, 8 @ 6lb and 4 @ 5lb+
Eel: 2lb 5oz

Total weight approx. 290lb

A real red-letter day. Lucky fellow.
My best catch? I married her

maceo · Jun 26, 2013

When you'd been catching like that for 11 hours, it must have been very hard to pack up and not just keep on casting!

flightliner · Jun 26, 2013

Great catch, a big well done. I particularly like the total honesty in the weighing of that tench that was just a half ounce short of being a nine !

yogi224 · Jun 26, 2013

my biggest fish is a sturgeon at 66lb, second biggest a cat at 41lb 9, 3rd mirror at 33lb 8, to me the mirror is my pb as it took me 5 years to catch that particular fish (not in one session though lol)

sam vimes · Jun 26, 2013

23 stickfloat caught barbel for over 200lb. 30 float fished tench on a local stillwater, or maybe the mixed bag of barbel, bream and roach on the Swale (six bream over 5lb and two roach over 2lb). Each catch was made on normal day sessions, two of them on (then) accessible local day ticket waters. There's virtually no chance of repeating the latter, the other two are still possible.
I've had bigger catches and bigger fish, but, for one reason or another, I'd consider these catches better.

barbelboi · Jun 26, 2013

My most memorable catch (apart from my first tench) was in the 70's during a couple of hours evening session on the river which totaled 5lb 9oz , they were both roach.
Jerry

nogoodboyo · Jun 26, 2013

A roach of about 1lb. My first fish following a break of about 27 years.
From the local canal.
The only fish I wish I'd ever weighed.
A real beauty.

stu_the_blank · Jun 26, 2013

A small Roach I caught in the early 60's.

I was about 5, my extended family were on a day out from the 'smoke', The Beult near Hunton. My uncles, Dad and older cousins fished, my mum and aunt's sat in the sun, made tea and chatted. I had been given my first rod, a 6' solid fibreglass kids rod and reel, so, bored with playing in the fields, with my mum and one of my aunt's, I had a go at serious fishing, off the bridge. Eventually the float sailed off and I winched in a little Roach. One of my uncles unhooked it and I slipped it back. Never forget it but the biggest catch of the day was me, hook, line and sinker. I've been an angler ever since.

Stu

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