June 2024 Anlging Trust Newsletter

Eel breaks British record after 46 years

An eel caught by Steve Ricketts from a Southern stillwater earlier this month has been ratified as a British record by the British Record Fish Committee.

Steve's fish - weighing 11lb 3oz - beats by just one ounce Mr S Terry’s longest-standing current British coarse fish record of 11lb 2oz, from 1978.

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