Perch are a weird fish when it comes to guessing the size of a big one, anyone else think so?
My pb is 2lb 8oz as well, looking at a photo of it now, same as Whiteys perch those fish look bigger than a lot of pictures of claimed 3-4lb perch.
Tench, barbel, carp all miles bigger than 30 years ago. Most of this will be the amount of bait going in - more calories = more growth.
I wonder if warmer winters also help most fish. We all know lakes that used to freeze most winters in the 80s, or earlier. Now they don't - or they don't freeze for long. Cos fish are cold-blooded, they won't move or eat much in cold water. So warmer winters mean more (opportunity for) growing months every year. Combined with extra bait = bigger fish.
Paging Nev - what do you reckon - could this be possible?
not a huge fish but it hit that fox spinner hard ...
had this today on a very big spinner , pike took the first cast followed by this not long after ...
not a sniff to the eel rods apart from one run which was probably perch ....
it all passes the time , till you get an eel run
steve
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There are mammoth perch in loads of UK natural waters, by mammoth I mean 5lb plus
3 UK Rivers, 2 English Lakes in addition to 4 reservoirs, at least 2 Scottish lochs and potentially 2 Welsh lakes
i know of 2 5+ caught in London, diff venues diff fish
crayfish...
I don't know what the Lee or it's tributaries fish like now Ratty but I'm told that place I took you to for your 1st 3 is a shadow of itself these days? I caught 47 over 3lbs by design that year but significantly only caught half a dozen or so between 2 and 3 lbs!
(I've caught 1 but 3's are rare much harder to come by in the fens face)
There are mammoth perch in loads of UK natural waters, by mammoth I mean 5lb plus
3 UK Rivers, 2 English Lakes in addition to 4 reservoirs, at least 2 Scottish lochs and potentially 2 Welsh lakes
i know of 2 5+ caught in London, diff venues diff fish
crayfish...
I don't know what the Lee or it's tributaries fish like now Ratty but I'm told that place I took you to for your 1st 3 is a shadow of itself these days? I caught 47 over 3lbs by design that year but significantly only caught half a dozen or so between 2 and 3 lbs!
(I've caught 1 but 3's are rare much harder to come by in the fens face)
I think so too mate, goes in cycles it seems? not sure about the other parts of the lea, but it think its hard all over now?
