GAME CHANGER
Feb 03, 2022
4 minutes
Words MIKE MILLMAN
Sea Angler had been available for just half a decade when the Record Fish Committee, then part of the National Anglers Council, bowed to pressure from fishing publications – including Sea Angler, angling administrators and grass roots anglers – to do away with the single record list that had been inherited in 1957 in favour of individual registers for boat and shore captures.
The committee’s first task was a review of old and so called unofficial ‘records’ published between 1893 and 1967. Among those deleted on the grounds of insufficient provenance included Mitchell Hedges’ 12lb 12oz wrasse taken off Looe Island, in Cornwall in 1912, a thornback ray of 38lb from Sussex in 1935 and a black
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