New Carp Record

[DIDO.1 22,691]

Questions for you all. At what point does a stocked fish become wild? Or is the fact that they are contained in a pond make it that they can never truly become wild?

 

Just a passing thought.

 

TC

I'd say if it's done most of its growing in an open water.

 

Except for stocked trout as most people except they are only stock fish

[blackmaggie 3,376]

Looks like its been broken again put on 2 a half pound in five weeks

[jok 3,244]

What an emotive subject. Never tried for coarse fis in my life. Offered a day out on a trout lake the other day. Took my lightweight fly rod and a very lightweight leader together with a very strange size 16 nymph and bagged up in about 3 hours. Strange no other anglers caught anything.jok.

[toxo 160]

 

Thought they had to be DNA tested for British record.

Carp have been imported to u.k. for centuries so not sure what dna would proove. But im sure just about every big u.k. carp is a known fish so a foreigner would stand out like a reggae band at a kkk convention

 

Made me laugh for a whole minute.

[Greyman 28,372]

Looks like its been broken again put on 2 a half pound in five weeks

I,ve heard from a few of his regulars, it came out a few pound lighter a few days after his record claim, but he decidided to keep that capture quiet, I wonder why ? Everyone involved in carping for more than a few years knows what he,s about, I just think he should be a bit more honest, I have been to his waters and had some big kippers but I don't try and make out they are something they are not, he provides a fishing experience like going abroad without leaving the country and charges some good shillings for the pleasure, but let's not for a minute pretend these fish are anything more than they are,imported at big weights stocked at big weights so people can catch them at big weights, simple as that,

[comanche 2,988]

The 71lb carp in question is now the biggest rod-caught carp to date and that makes it a record . Perhaps one with out much merit but still a record.

As someone pointed-out ,carp are a non-native species hence all are decendants of foreign imports .Recent trends have seen this taken this further with the rearing of fast-growing ,ever-hungry fish from commercial strains developed for the table being released at "specimen" weights and due to their genetic programming to live-to-eat they end-up being caught so many times they literally are on first name terms with their captors.

The obvious culmination of this has arrived;someone has created their very own record carp.

Factor -in the use of bait-boats,drones,sonar,self-hooking rigs and all the rest and it becomes obvious that carp-catching has become a very artificial branch of sport that in my book is best described as "fishing" rather than "angling". Why then should anyone be surprised that the resulting catches should be equally artificial.

Be it a crafty wild-bred two- pounder from a farm pond or low double from a larger water, carp used to be special fish. They are no longer special and no longer is the carp record . And everyone knows it.

Edited November 4, 2016 by comanche

[hutch6 550]

If you fed every fish you were after a bucket of food every few minutes then every fish would be a new record. The amount of bait that goes into the water for carp fishing could feed a small country!! Give it another week and it'll be +. Must be a thrill catching an underwater Labrador. Such tactics.

[Waz 4,257]

heard its been dissalowed as a record

[Flipper_Al 1,012]

Accepted as a cultivated record lol

 

http://www.anglingtimes.co.uk/fishing-news/2016/britains-biggest-carp-denied-official-record