Unseen Trent Monsters

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Tim Ridge

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I was fishing at Collingham during the recent floods and hooked something which just refused to give in! I've had several carp in the past which posed no problem at all on 12lb line and carp rods but this thing (whatever it was) just was not going to yield to pressure. Whenever I started to gain a little line it just went out into the middle of the river and held position. It even did this upstream of me.
The Staff in my local tackle shop have nicknamed this fish the Barge!
At first I thought it was probably one of the biggest barbel on the stretch. I now doubt this. Any Idea's.
 
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I knew a guy once who hooked a Trent carp that he estimated at well over 30, he played it for about 4 hours on a 1.5lb bottom, could never get it quite close enough for the net but close enough a few times to see it. In the end he got totally brassed off with it and just snapped it off deliberately and went home for his tea.

Your fish could have been a foul hooked barbel of course, I've had a few of those over the years; hooked one about 4lb in the dorsal once on 4lb line and it just went wherever it wanted for about 10 minutes until I gave it some real heave-ho having worked out that it wasn't that big after all.
 
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jason fisher

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bout 12 years ago my mate hooked some thing while we were piking it bent his 3lb TC rod double for 45 minutes using 15lb big game line all it did was swim up and down the bottom no matter what he did it would not come up in the water, having caught 33lb plus pike in around 6 minutes from the same place i would say it was quite a bit bigger, we've both also had mid 20's carp from the river and they didn't take anything like the hammer this thing gave out, i have a theory that there are some large cats in there considering that a few small ones have been caught in the past in matches from the river, either that or a rogue sturgeon.
 
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I tried giving this thing the big heave ho from the start and it responded by stripping line off a tightish clutch and then sitting docile in the middle for several minutes and refused to budge. Never hooked anything like it, totally mystifies me.
 
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Frothey

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i think theres a korda "underwater trent" dvd coming out - maybe it was the diver?
 
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I did consider the possibility a cat was responsible but didn't know there were any in the river. I suppose even a smallist cat would go big style in a flood. Any reported captures in the area I was fishing? It would certainly make sense. Fishmeal boilies, coloured water and at night too.
Yuk..I find the thought most distastefull. Orrible creatures, Glad it cut me off now.
 
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jason fisher

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the small ones were caught down by the fossdyke on the tidal stretch in the late 80's i think.
 
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Budgie Burgess

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Catfish are often blamed for these "unstopable monster" situations.I dont ever give this sort of thing much credit as there aint no Cat in UK waters that cant be landed on the gear modern carp anglers use.My suspicions (especially with fish that have moved out and held in mid river)always lay with foulhooked fish.I once caught a 30lb Carp from the River Wasser in Germany on a heavy feeder outfit (Normark Fast Feeder and 8lb mainline 4lb hook length)and a 8lb Bream in the same session (a match actually)Whilst the carp certainly fought hard it was played to the net in about 10mins and landed.The Bream was foul hooked (in the anal fin) and took me over 45mins.It didnt fight hard as such it was just that you had no control over it and couldnt guide it at all.This fish kited out in to mid river (some 75m!) and held there for ages.
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay

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My feeling is that such a fish is either a big foul hooked Trent carp or barbel.

I played a fish on the Severn in the middle of Bewdley for 3 1/4 hours in June 1996, hooked on 6lbs line and a 12 Super Specialist. I lost it eventually.

I do feel it was a foul hooked fish of some kind.
 
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jason fisher

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only 1 year and 5 months on from the last posting here ron, on the ball with your replies then.
 
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jason fisher

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it's the sort of daft thing ron does, digging up threads that are 3 years out of date.
 
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ED (The ORIGINAL and REAL one)

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It's when he's sitting at home with nothing to do ...........
 
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