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BLASTS FROM THE PAST

The specimen I rate above all others is a Mevagissey fish caught from the boat OSPREY in 1974. It was a red bream of 9lb 8oz 12dr taken off the Dodman Point, an area of reef that had over the years produced a considerable number of significant fish.

Only one other red bream in the class at 9lb 6oz has been registered, this was off an Irish boat called Valencia in 1963. Unfortunately, no picture exists in the Irish Sea Fish records but the weight is recorded. The previous British Record was another Cornish fish of 7lb 8oz caught in 1925 at the Hatt Rock reef south of Fowey by the then Secretary of the British Sea Anglers Society.

POLLACK

The great majority of record pollack and coalfish that were caught in the heyday of electronic wrecking fell

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