Pike

UK Pike Record: 46lbs 13oz (21.23kg)

Pike are the top line predator in most European freshwater fisheries making it and awe inspiring fish. Streamlined, powerful but graceful too the pike is a solitary fish in our water ways.
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 Carp

UK Carp Record: 64b 5oz (29.16kg) Conningbrook, Ashford, Kent, 2004.

The wild carp is now almost impossible to find but the common, mirror, leather, linear mirror and ghosties to name a few are a variety of their relatives.
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 Tench

UK Tench Record: 14lb 7oz (5.55kg)

Tench are the most hardy of all coarse fish, living in poorly oxygenated water and are often the only fish to survive a pollution incident.
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 Bream

UK Bream Record:16lb 9oz

The body-shape of the bream gives some clue to its habits. Not only does it shape allow for life at the bottom and to easily manoevere between closely-spaced reeds and stems in the stillwater.
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 Barbel

UK Barbel Record:17lbs4oz (7.82kg)

Barbel are perhaps the most revered of all river coarse fish, and for many anglers catching one has turned into a pursuit. It being the hardest fighting fish in our waters.
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 Chub

UK Chub Record: 8lb 10oz (3.91kg)

The chub is one of Britain's bigger coarse fish, the chub belongs to the carp family, although it does not resemble it in appearance. It is easy to identify by its large scales, which have a slight edging, and can only be confused with other fish when young, often mistaken for a dace.
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 Roach

UK Roach Record: 4lb 3oz (1.9kg)

Few anglers can explain their reason for such enthusiasm for this small and common coarse fish, yet they fish for them with such faith, almost a religion.
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 Eel

UK Eel Record: 11lb 2oz (5.03kg)

The eel wins the prize as having the most interesting life as a fish. After about 8-12 years in freshwater the eel heads out to sea, making a few body changes as it does so, setting off on a 5 year arduous journey to the Sargasso sea
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 Perch

UK Perch Record: 5lbs 9oz (2.52kg)

The perch is one of the most handsome coarse fish and also one of the most aggressive predators. When young they patrol in shoals rounding up fry and crashing through them.
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 Rudd

UK Rudd Record: 4lb 8oz (2.04kg)

Not may anglers would argue that the rudd is one of our most beautiful coarse fish, with buttery gold flanks and red tipped fins.
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 Dace

1lb 4oz (0.574 kg)

Dace tend to like to dart through the fast flowing upper layers of water, but some of the biggest specimens caught have been in stillwaters, proving that they are a very adaptable coarse fish.
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 Zander

UK Record: 19lb 5oz (8.77kg)

Some anglers mistakenly believe the zander to be a cross between a pike and a perch, in trueth the zander is no relation to the pike at all, but the biggest European member of the perch family.
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 Catfish

UK Record: 62lb (28.1kg)

The Wels Catfish grows bigger than any other freshwater European fish. In Europe they have been known to reach 300lb ( 136kg) with a length of 13ft (4m) long.
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