No Peter, I fished the London Reservoirs in the Perch heyday's and a 3lbder was regarded as a very big Perch, a 4lbder a real monster.
Lets be honest about, mid to high 4s are now regarded as the bench mark for the Perch experts, 5s and 6s are the monsters now !!
So we have come a long way since the last outbreak of Perch disease, but it could be just around the corner.
Now is the best time in my lifetime to land a Perch of your dreams.
Bob
Yep I very much agree Bob,
I'd say there's far more waters now with big perch than ever before,
Perch in waters where a lot of anglers seem to predominantly carp fish for example the perch seem to thrive on neglect,
Even the rivers over the last few years I think have made a massive come back and it's the rivers that I much prefer to fish,
You may possibly remember me Bob, it was a few years back when we had the last lot of snow and I came up and spoke to you at Waltham abbey / fishers green and you was the only one fishing in the snow after about a about a 4 mile stretch from Enfield that I had just walked, from memory you'd literally just had a bypass but couldn't stay indoors and needed to be on the bank in pursuit of those monster chub, I think it was only a matter of a day or two after that you had the 9 lb chub on the bank :thumbs:
I've noticed that there are some very good perch coming out just a little further upstream on the Lea literally very close to yer club water that you mentioned you was a member of with a few well over the 4lb mark to 4lb 10oz.
Incidentally I'm interested in the Osprey group Bob as I believe that your the chairman, if there's any info you could possibly send me via PM it'd be very much appreciated,
Hope that everything is ok and that yer keeping well