Angler eats huge sea bass he caught only to discover it was a record breaker after he had tucked in

Angler eats huge sea bass he caught only to discover it was a record breaker after he had tucked in

Source: Daily Mail

11/7/2011

Angler eats huge sea bass he caught only to discover it was a record breaker after he had tucked in

An angler from Cwmbran, Monmouthshire missed out on the chance to become a record-breaker, after he ate his mammoth catch before weighing it first..

Kurt Price, 25, reeled in a sea bass while fishing from the shore in Tenby, south west Wales, but never thought it was big enough to be a record.

It was only after he had filleted, cooked and ate it, that he researched the realised his catch would have been the biggest of its kind.

The current record for a shore-caught sea bass is 19lbs 11oz. Kurt and many fishing experts who have seen the photo of it reckon his one was easily bigger than 20lbs.

But he can never be credited with the title because he failed to weigh the fish at the time - and he has since eaten the evidence.
Kurt, a landscape gardener, said: 'I caught the fish at about 10pm. I knew it was big and spent about ten minutes reeling it in.

'It was only when we got home and looked on the internet that we realised it was probably a record.

Black sea bass

Continue...

News Id		Source	Stamp	country
2301	n the front line of the fish for sex trade ‘spiralling out of control’	telegraph	2022-10-14	UK
2302	Angler sets state record with ‘monster’ hybrid trout	wtok	2022-10-15	US
2303	Giant 900lb tuna biggest fish caught in Welsh waters	BBC News	2022-10-10	US
2304	Fish feel 'pain, stress and anxiety': Organisation introduces proposal for their 'humane slaughter'	wionews	2022-10-10	IN
2305	A Giant Sunfish In the Azores Weighed In as the Heaviest Bony Fish On Record	theinertia	2022-10-13	US
2306	Colorado fishermen cited for poaching 460 pounds of salmon in Northern Michigan	mlive	2022-10-14	US
2307	A shock of cold water could help control exotic fish in Grand Canyon	Arizona Public Radio	2022-10-14	US
2308	Switching from sturgeon – a look at global salmon and trout roe consumption	The Fish Site	2022-10-22	US
2309	Clean Water Act at 50: Environmental Gains, Challenges Unmet	Associated Press	2022-10-17	US
2310	Tiny Tennessee Fish Protected, but US Has Yet to Say Where	Associated Press	2022-10-21	US
2311	Владимирская макала	Охотники.ру	2022-10-21	RU
2312	Award-winning — plastic-eating robo-fish is finally here to rid our waters of waste	interestingengineering	2022-10-22	US
2313	Neurotoxic predatory	aked-science	2022-10-20	US
2314	Thousands of salmon found dead as Canada drought dries out river	theguardian	2022-10-05	CA
2315	Worry, uncertainty felt at Little Campbell Hatchery as lack of rain holds up fish returns	surreynowleader	2022-10-17	CA
2316	Why volunteers scoop thousands of fish out of Alberta irrigation canals each year	msn	2022-10-19	CA
2317	Otters kill over 40 koi & fishes leaving Bukit Timah resident	mothership	2022-10-03	SG
2318	Loons are harassing anglers by stealing fish off their hooks	bangor daily news	2022-10-03	US
2319	Rare all-black fish caught in East Tennessee river	cbs42	2022-10-05	US
2320	Agreement heralds a new chapter in char farming	The Fish Site	2022-10-19	CA
2321	Азарт рыбалки рождает союзников	Охотники.ру	2022-10-19	RU
2322	‘River of fish’ making its way in desert is something you mustn’t miss	odishatv	2022-10-09	IN
2323	Where can the biggest bass be caught in Northeast Tennessee?	wjhl	2022-09-23	US
2324	Woman catches super rare ‘gold’ fish in her backyard pond	nypost	2022-10-07	US
2325	Snail Darter declared officially recovered, ending decades-long conservation effort	wjhl	2022-10-04	US