Saturday, 8 October 2016

Gargantuan!


Armed with the kitchen scales I was out before dawn to put some weights to these monster minnows (and try and catch a roach). I was soon catching them and about a million minnows later I had one of the big ones, carefully putting it on the scales it went 12 grams - 50% of the record - I was more than happy with that...


I continued catching them and added a couple of 11 gram specimens before swinging in what I thought was a small gudgeon - James watched and didn't believe me when I said "it's a minnow". Neither of us had seen anything like it - it was massive - on the scales it went 18 grams...


That's 75% of the record which makes it my most specimen fish ever. To put it in perspective it's the same as a 35lb 1oz pike, a 15lb 12oz barbel or a 3lb 3oz roach. And even though there is no entry for minnows so far - it's going on my PB list!

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