It was good to see on the back page of Angling Times this week a report from the A.T in 1981 of the new 5 hour match record of 279lb of Roach from a water in Ireland.
Now that is an impressive catch. It worked out to be around 730 Roach. Thats one every 40 seconds averaging around 6oz a fish. Wow.
That is a hell of allot more impressive than the current record of what 5-600lb of Carp averaging 6lb or so from a commercial that we see reported these days.
What has happened to these sort of catches?
Do they still happen? It would make a refreshing change to see similar catches reported in the weeklies.
What has happened to the big catches of fish that used to appear each week?
We just seem to see individual big fish and reported huge weights of pigs with fins.
Now that is an impressive catch. It worked out to be around 730 Roach. Thats one every 40 seconds averaging around 6oz a fish. Wow.
That is a hell of allot more impressive than the current record of what 5-600lb of Carp averaging 6lb or so from a commercial that we see reported these days.
What has happened to these sort of catches?
Do they still happen? It would make a refreshing change to see similar catches reported in the weeklies.
What has happened to the big catches of fish that used to appear each week?
We just seem to see individual big fish and reported huge weights of pigs with fins.