The Gudgeon World Angling Championships 2011

[Robin Bowes]

Big gonk from secret Yorkshire location

Mike (Hodgkiss) asked me to share this with you:

I think we have an answer at last to that rhetorical question "who ate all the pies?"

R.

 

[Keith Speer]

Rumour is that one of our VAC fisheries threw up a 7oz Gudgeon the other day.

I am told that the captor did not want to get his £300 camera wet so he used his phone for a piccy!!

A 7oz Gudgeon is a truly worthy fish, I would have been very proud to have caught that!!!


Mind you I heard that someone could not be bothered to take a picture of a Carp the other day, at 29lb 15oz it was not worth it as it was not a “Thirtyâ€.

Some folk are strange!!

Ray, Trust me mate, I deffo need councelling!! especially if she has big…………………..Ooooops better not go there!!

 

[Mike Hodgkiss]

Mike (Hodgkiss) asked me to share this with you:

I think we have an answer at last to that rhetorical question "who ate all the pies?"

R.

Thanks for posting this Robin . I caught this beauty on the opening day, it is ,I believe a northern sub species -''Gobio maximus '' .It was a huge fish over 7 inches long and as you can see very porky , perhaps I should get it on the PB thread Should have weighed it but I couldn't bring myself to string it up on my Reubon Heaton dial scales in case anybody saw me !The beast came from a secret stretch of a Yorkshire Ouse tributary . Apologies in advance for lack of unhooking mat and glimpse of Realtree clothing . Shocking ....

 

[Andy Cooper]

Can i take that photo and Put it on the Gudgeon World Angling Championships website that is a truely huge Gudgeon...

Well Angled that man

 

[Mike Hodgkiss]

My pleasure

 

[Chris Summersell]

Caught this lovely little gonk from the Colne on Sunday.

 

[Mike Hodgkiss]

Your smile says it all Chris

 

[Paul Boote]

Mike (Hodgkiss) asked me to share this with you:

Fabulous fish. Caught on loads of "maggitz" (or tiny worms) crammed onto a hook, too - as they should be.

Brings back very happy childhood memories of fishing from a rickety footbridge for the shallow-water (and then clear-water-) -holding, big shoals of gudgeon in the leat yards above (at the back of) Aldermaston Mill. Still have the slides of me complete with rainsoaked windcheater and floppyhat that my Dad took of me with his 35mm Voigtlander (first German thing he'd ever bought, twenty years after a war in which he'd fought).

Lovely fish.