Andrew Boyne
Senior Member
Thought i'd share this with you all. We've all made accidental captures whilst Barbel fishing and occasionally those captures turn out to be quite special. I was lucky enough yesterday to make one such capture while fishing on my local river Irwell - that of a truly monstrous Brown Trout weighing 12lb 2oz! Having grown up on the rivers of North Yorkshire and now fishing those in the North West i'm used to seeing Brown Trout in our rivers, usually 12oz to 1lb with odd 'specimens' in the 2-3lb class but nothing prepared me for the shock when this rolled into my net! What an amazing creature, it looks big in the pictures but to have hold of it was unreal.
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