Going out fishing, you wouldn’t expect to be in any immediate danger but that’s what teen angler Tom Mitchenall thought when he had been fishing for just 15 minutes in competition at Whitehall Angling club in Rushwick, Worcester.
Tom had just struck into a large common carp and when he started playing it, in an attempt [...]
Teen hit by float ‘spear’ after carp wrestle
Fisherman nearly Carps it!
A determined carp fisherman battled on despite suffering a heart attack to finish second in a fishing competition.
Angler Ray Smee, aged 55 from Merston, Surrey, was unaware of what had happened, instead thinking an old ribcage injury had flared up again after he had stumbled on the bank. Despite the splintering pain in his chest [...]
Record British Carp Found Dead
Now for those of you that aren’t avid fishermen, you wouldn’t really be that bothered about the death of a monster fish, but for anyone that has caught this absolute beauty, you may be a little bit shocked to hear that a carp thought to be one of the UK’s biggest freshwater fish was found [...]
