10.1 kg Zed

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

One of my young mates saw the photo a a very big zed caught by a Polish angler with a claimed weight of 10.1 kg or 22lb 04oz, said it looked all of its weight, from the great Ouse in Cambridgeshire, anyone heard similar?

Cheers, Alan

[Happy Hayes]

I’m not throwing stones
But did it go back
Regards
Tom

[davelumb]

Naming waters.

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

Naming waters.

What the Great Ouse in Cambs is naming waters!

Cheers, Alan

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

I’m not throwing stones
But did it go back
Regards
Tom

Going on the story, I think it did!

Cheers, Alan

[dropped_run]

I’m not sure what the Ouse record is, but it doesn’t have a recent history of doing big zander does it?

A British record out of it, I don’t buy it myself but I would love to be proven wrong.

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

I’m not sure what the Ouse record is, but it doesn’t have a recent history of doing big zander does it?

A British record out of it, I don’t buy it myself but I would love to be proven wrong.

Thats sort of what I am thinking, just sounds as though its a biggun, but not that big!

Cheers, Alan

[Steve Dennington]

I’m not sure what the Ouse record is, but it doesn’t have a recent history of doing big zander does it?

A British record out of it, I don’t buy it myself but I would love to be proven wrong.

It would be nice to think that there was a real shocker swimming about in there, but as you say, the track record isn't for fish of anything like that size.

Hopefully, pics will emerge in due course.

[The great Gavino]

I’m going in the morning, I’ll see if I can find it

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

I’m going in the morning, I’ll see if I can find it

Should be easy now as I have named the water and you only have about 100 miles of bank to search!

Cheers, Alan

[Mike F]

I’m going in the morning, I’ll see if I can find it

Should be easy now as I have named the water and you only have about 100 miles of bank to search!

Cheers, Alan

3 rod pod x 5 and keep leapfrogging them

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

I’m going in the morning, I’ll see if I can find it

Should be easy now as I have named the water and you only have about 100 miles of bank to search!

Cheers, Alan

3 rod pod x 5 and keep leapfrogging them

Cheers, Alan

[Alex Fox]

I’m going in the morning, I’ll see if I can find it

Should be easy now as I have named the water and you only have about 100 miles of bank to search!

Cheers, Alan

3 rod pod x 5 and keep leapfrogging them

Non stop day and night for the next 8 days

[The great Gavino]

Leapfrogged half a mile of it today. Couldn’t find it. Or anything for that matter

[dropped_run]

Alan, just to muddy the waters….

Was the picture near a bridge, or alternatively was it off a boat?

Something jogged my memory earlier

[The great Gavino]

More info needed on this subject

[Mark Phillips]

I've had a 15.04 from that river, but 22 seems a bit of a stretch and then some. 17 something is the biggest I know of and that wasn't recently. Nothing like a good old wives' tale to get people going I suppose A bit like all the catfish that are in there and the 30lb pike

[The great Gavino]

I've had a 15.04 from that river, but 22 seems a bit of a stretch and then some. 17 something is the biggest I know of and that wasn't recently. Nothing like a good old wives' tale to get people going I suppose A bit like all the catfish that are in there and the 30lb pike

I know two people that have had 60+ cats from this river. Maybe the 20+ Zander is garbage but it’s still a bit of fun.

[dropped_run]

I've had a 15.04 from that river, but 22 seems a bit of a stretch and then some. 17 something is the biggest I know of and that wasn't recently. Nothing like a good old wives' tale to get people going I suppose A bit like all the catfish that are in there and the 30lb pike

I could send you a few pics of Great Ouse cats to be fair. And video. They are in there but I suspect not in the numbers people mention, I know of one fish claimed from Wyboston to Earith…it came out somewhere in between, it’s probably the source of most of the tales

I did hear of an 80 from a well known city centre that took four hours to land though…amazing in this day and age no one got a picture, but also more amazing someone had scales and a net capable….honestly water does attract the moronic.

But cats in the river, pretty undeniable. Ouse 30’s, well that’s another story altogether.

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

Biggest believable zed from the river I have heard of is 18+, biggest cat is 80 something and is still there, as for the biggest pike was a few years ago now one I "tried" to catch, claimed at 43 but pictures suggested it was a low 30!

Cheers, Alan

[stubbojo]

there was a rumour of a 30 on my local canal , tracked down the picture 12lb if that .......fooking bellends mate

[Neville Fickling]

I think I had a 20 kb zander today. Didn’t weight it mind!!!

[Old Mate]

That's alot of memory for a zander...

[Neville Fickling]

That's alot of memory for a zander...

Yes I thought that!!!!!

[fenland piker]

I know of two zander larger than that a few years ago caught (not naming location) in the Norfolk/Cambs Great Ouse system, both witnessed by very reliable independent people, photographed, videoed and weighed properly. They were both caught in the same spot on consecutive years from a boat during flood conditions on lures by different anglers and may possibly be the same fish.
And I have seen pictures of several pike well over 30 caught in the same part of the world in the last few years but which were never publicised.

As for Cats. I am surprised more really large ones don't get caught in this part of the world. They are endemic across the system and seem to have established breeding populations including in the Tidal Ouse as the eel fishermen report baby wels in fyke nets on a fairly regular basis.

[Mark Phillips]

I know of two zander larger than that a few years ago caught (not naming location) in the Norfolk/Cambs Great Ouse system, both witnessed by very reliable independent people, photographed, videoed and weighed properly. They were both caught in the same spot on consecutive years from a boat during flood conditions on lures by different anglers and may possibly be the same fish.
And I have seen pictures of several pike well over 30 caught in the same part of the world in the last few years but which were never publicised.

As for Cats. I am surprised more really large ones don't get caught in this part of the world. They are endemic across the system and seem to have established breeding populations including in the Tidal Ouse as the eel fishermen report baby wels in fyke nets on a fairly regular basis.

Several 30's you say In my experience, when 'several' big pike get caught in the Fens, several usually translates to one being re-captured by different people. Every time someone starts talking 30's I can't help but smile. I know the river coughs one up every so often, I have a mate who did get one, but 'several' isn't a word I would use whilst keeping a straight face.

I've personally seen one catfish from the Great Ouse, well actually it was the lower Cam and it went 12lb, that was 16 years ago. A few got in the river from a certain little lake and I know someone who's seen pictures of captures in the Ely area which were of those fish. But again, that was years ago and the catches faded out. There were also fish caught further up the river, again, they got in there from stocked still waters nearby and got caught a bit at the time. If they were there in numbers, people would be catching them and telling everyone. I do a fair amount of cat fishing and would love to fish for them in fen rivers, but to say they're 'endemic' across the Ouse system is a bold statement to say the least. Those eel fisherman eh? It was barbel last time and now catfish. I can only think that the mitten crabs must be eating all these little chaps. They'll be finding baby burbot in their nets at this rate.

[suffolk si]

One of my young mates saw the photo a a very big zed caught by a Polish angler with a claimed weight of 10.1 kg or 22lb 04oz, said it looked all of its weight, from the great Ouse in Cambridgeshire, anyone heard similar?

Cheers, Alan

There was a pic in the last ever anglers mail I believe, think that is the fish you are talking about, didn’t look near claimed weight to me

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

One of my young mates saw the photo a a very big zed caught by a Polish angler with a claimed weight of 10.1 kg or 22lb 04oz, said it looked all of its weight, from the great Ouse in Cambridgeshire, anyone heard similar?

Cheers, Alan

There was a pic in the last ever anglers mail I believe, think that is the fish you are talking about, didn’t look near claimed weight to me

I think tis fish was caught in the last few weeks but I will ask!

Cheers, Alan

[Neville Fickling]

As I’ve always said if we don’t know about 30 lb pike or 22 lb zander then they don’t exist!

[Runaway Train]

As I’ve always said if we don’t know about 30 lb pike or 22 lb zander then they don’t exist!

Agreed - a bit like the 25lb Zed reported from a midlands river....