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Posted by }<)))*> StriperChaser on October 8, 2005, 11:42 pm Every angler has a story about the one that got away. An "Norman the plumber", as he is known to friends, was on a The Fisheries, like a growing number of lakes and clubs up Mr Ward is apparently unhappy with the situation - It is understood that he was even warned by other Ian Grant, the secretary of The Fisheries, refused to John Freeman, the treasurer of The Fisheries, was equally The Angler's Mail, a weekly journal read by tens of Andy Little, a keen angler and a columnist with the paper, "For it to be kept quiet would be a travesty," he said.
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4.152.201.103
No pictures! Why fishermen can't record the ones
that didn't get away
By Andrew Alderson, Chief Reporter
(Filed: 09/10/2005)
increasing number, however, are uncharacteristically silent
about the whopper they caught but are not allowed to talk
about - or even photograph.
The growing trend for lakes and fishing club to ban anglers
from discussing record catches has been highlighted by the
case of Norman Ward, who has just landed Britain's biggest
eel - even larger than the one pictured below.
night fish for carp in Hertfordshire when he beat the 1978
British eel record of 11lb 2oz. His joy at catching a 13lb
monster - which was so big that he could not get his hand
around the eel's girth - was quickly tempered by a strict "no
publicity" order from his club, The Fisheries, in the Colne
Valley, near Harefield.
and down the country, has threatened to ban members if
they try to claim a record catch. They fear that such a move
will encourage poachers and other non-members to plunder
their waters.
although his club's ban prevents him from airing any
grievance.
members that he must not photograph the eel before
returning it to the lake. However, he did weigh it, witnessed
by other members.
discuss the catch. He said: "We have a long history of
people wanting to publicise catches and we have always
said 'no'. If this capture is published [officially recorded],
we will take action. I can only assume that the rule came in
because people didn't want to publicise the fact that there
could be some good fish here."
unbending. "The rules are clear. There is no publicity at all.
The captor can write to the committee [to ask for the rules
to be waived], but that's up to him, and the decision has to
come from the committee as a whole. But he won't be able
to claim a record because no photographs were taken."
thousands of keen fishermen, has called on The Fisheries
and other clubs to bend their rules "in the interests of
fishing history".
said the sport would be the loser if the full story of the
greatest eel capture never emerged.
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