Freshwater Fishing Thread, Potential WR Nile Perch in Fishing Reports; 259lbs - Potential World Record Nile Perch. Or should it be CROCODILE just misses catching angler!
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Nov-02-2009, 10:29 AM
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Name: Al Schaefer Vessel: none Location: Miami, FL USA Job:Fishing Travel Agent
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259lbs - Potential World Record Nile Perch. Or should it be CROCODILE just misses catching angler!
Fascinated to read this article -http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6880197.ece#
from the on line edition of the UK's Times Newspaper. It covers the capture of a huge 259lb Nile Perch from the River Nile in Uganda, a mile downstream from the famous Murchison Falls - a fish which if ratified will break the existing IGFA All-Tackle record by some 29lbs. But will it?
If you read the article you'll find that the fish in the final stages of the fight was attacked by a CROCODILE. Intriguing in itself in that a catch may be disqualified if, and to quote the IGFA rules:
2. Mutilation to the fish, prior to landing or boating the catch, caused by sharks, other fish, mammals or propellors that remove, or penetrate the flesh.
But there's no mention of crocodiles. There is though a serious point, whether or not it was the same one, but just before this a crocodile came within a whisker of knocking the angler out of the boat. Um ... I don't know whether any fish is worth taking that risk for, especially as a Park Ranger was killed by a croc in that area just weeks earlier.
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Nov-02-2009, 12:46 PM
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#2 | | captain in a bakery
Name: jimmy Age: 23 Vessel: 16' tri-hull , x factor, mini x Location: sgv Job:baker Bio: i bake and what about it?
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very interesting.
but is a record really a record if you have to loophole into it?
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Nov-02-2009, 02:18 PM
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#3 | | Holi-e-Mackeral
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I have no doubt that the fish will not qualify for an IGFA record..
shark or reptile bit fish don't count... they are very picky..
Still a huge fish in the fresh, or anywhere else..
Tight lines.. Jef f
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wasnt this fish bit while they were wrestling it into the boat?
i saw this in an email a little ways back and damn that fish was big
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Isn't a crocodile a mammal ?
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Originally Posted by divegod1  Isn't a crocodile a mammal ? | Please tell me you're being sarcastic
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Sorry guys, brainfart forgot about the egg part
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Originally Posted by divegod1 Sorry guys, brainfart forgot about the egg part | And the nipples, fur and warm blood. 
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#10 | | long ways from home
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Originally Posted by sdfishkiller And the nipples, fur and warm blood. | crocs have nips? damn im gettin thick!
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