Had an hour on a small river outlet late afternoon. I fished several swims and had quite a few fish in each. Esox snaffled a couple of fish off my hook in one spot and killed the swim forcing me to make a move. I kept the fish from my last swim in my landing net head for a quick pic. There should be a absolutly huge dace in that picture but....I put my rod down and got my small digi scales out, hooked a small placcy bag onto them and placed them on my sling bag in readiness to weigh the dace. I got the dace out of my net, but, as I held it, it wriggled and because it was so big and chunky I didn't have a good grip of it and it slipped out of my hand, falling on a load of old dried up laying down nettle stalks. I tried to get it but as I did it wriggled and slipped throught the bloody stalks and dropped back into the river ?.
You couldn't make it up ffs, the fish was either the biggest dace i've ever caught or as big as any that I can remember and I was going to weigh it special as I never bother! It was a wierd thing to happen how it did and I really was looking forward to seeing how much it weighed.
I'll never know now, but I reckon it was quite a few ounces over a pound.
