A BRITISH angler living in Thailand has broken the world record for the biggest carp ever caught. According to an article on the Lad Bible website, John Harvey’s catch weighed in at a whopping 232 lb or 105 kg.
Where are the biggest carp in the world?
The world record for a carp stands at 112lbs 14oz for a mirror carp caught at a fishery in Hungary by Dutchman Michel Schoenmakers in 2018. And the biggest carp ever caught by a British angler is a 105lbs 14oz mirror specimen by Ian Burton at the same lake in 2019.
Where are the biggest carp in Europe?
Located near lake Balaton in Hungary, Euro Aqua is home to the current world record carp at a staggering weight of 51.7KG, that’s 114lb!
What is the largest carp?
The largest recorded carp, caught by British angler, Colin Smith, in 2013 at Etang La Saussaie Fishery, France, weighed 45.59 kilograms (100.5 lb).
What is the biggest grass carp in the world?
87 pounds, 10 ounces
According to the International Game Fish Assn., the all-tackle world record grass carp stands at 87 pounds, 10 ounces. That fish was caught at the Piasuchnik Dam in Bulgaria in 2009.
What’s the biggest carp ever caught in the United States?
59lb 4oz and what an immaculate looker! The largest carp ever caught by design in the US is a common of 62lb caught by Luis Montes in California.
How big is a giant carp?
The largest species of carp or cyprinid is the Siamese giant carp Catlocarpio siamensis, also known as the giant barb. The national fish of Cambodia, the largest recorded specimen of this mighty species was 3 m in length, although the longest specimens currently reported are around 1.8 m.
What is the biggest UK carp caught?
The biggest carp ever caught in Britain was an 83lb 4oz mirror known as ‘The Big Plated’ from the Wingham syndicate in Kent.
What is the biggest fish ever caught in the world?
great white shark
According to IGFA records, the largest fish ever caught was a great white shark that weighed an unbelievable 2,664 pounds (1,208.389 kg.). Caught off the coast of Ceduna, Australia, in 1959, it took angler Alfred Dean just 50 minutes to win the fight against this one-ton shark.
What’s the UK carp record?
68lb 1oz
The official carp record is currently The Parrot at 68lb 1oz, caught by Dean Fletcher in January 2016 from Berkshire’s Wasing Estate.
Can you eat carp?
Many American anglers think of the common carp a rough fish, not fit for human consumption. In many parts of the world, however, the carp is held in high esteem as a food fish. If the catch is properly cared for, it can make a delicious addition to the menu.
What’s the biggest carp in France?
About 250 years ago monks dug Lac de Vaulaurent to breed fish. And what a location they picked to do this! The biggest carp was caught a couple of weeks ago by Bertrand: 32,540kg which is around 71.7lb.
How long do giant carp live?
Age and Growth: Few live longer than 12 years in the wild, but in captivity have lived 47 years; growth varies considerable, but generally rapid for the first few years, then slows. They commonly reach more than 10 pounds.
What is the largest freshwater fish in the world?
The beluga sturgeon in Russia is the largest freshwater fish in the world. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America. White sturgeon have been reported to reach lengths of 15-20 feet and weights of nearly one ton.
What is the biggest catfish caught in the world?
Mekong giant catfish
The Mekong giant catfish is the official freshwater heavyweight champion of the world. According to the Guinness Book of Records, a nine-foot-long individual caught in northern Thailand in 2005 weighted an astounding 646 pounds, making it the largest exclusively freshwater fish ever recorded.
Why do carp get so big?
A fish of this weight can also measure the length of a full grown man. The main reason why carp get to larger sizes in mainland Europe and Asia is down to longer and hotter summers. Long summers means longer feeding duration causing the carp to gain larger weights in a shorter period of time.
What is the largest bass ever caught?
22 pounds, 4 ounces
Official Largemouth World Record: George Perry’s Undefeated Bass. On June 2nd, 1932, George Perry caught the current world record bass out of Lake Montgomery, an oxbow lake off the Ocmulgee River in southern Georgia. The fish (the whopper) weighed 22 pounds, 4 ounces.
What is the biggest salmon ever caught?
97 pounds 4 ounces
The heaviest on record, caught in 1949 in a Petersburg commercial fish trap, weighed an astonishing 126 pounds. The world sport fishing record, a scale-straining lunker of 97 pounds 4 ounces, was hauled from the Kenai River in 1985.
What is the biggest carp ever caught in Michigan?
Muskegon Department of Natural Resources officials confirmed the Michigan carp state record is 61 pounds, 8 ounces, but since Paggett released the fish back into Muskegon Lake instead of bringing it in to be officially weighed, the record will not change hands.
Where do giant carp live?
The Giant Carp is recorded from larger rivers and floodplain areas in the Maeklong, Mekong and Chao Phraya basins in Thailand, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam. Wild populations of the species no longer occur in the Chao Phraya River (Humphrey and Bain 1990, Roberts and Warren 1994).
What is the biggest carp caught in South Africa?
Martin Louw has been fishing from a very young age of which the last 13 years have been dedicated to finding and catching South African monster Carp. Martin holds both official and unofficial South-African Carp records with Carp of 59lbs 15 ounces & 65 pounds respectively.