{"id":33990,"date":"2023-02-25T00:32:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T00:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/giant-record-sized-pike-caught-in-england\/"},"modified":"2023-02-25T00:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T00:32:34","slug":"giant-record-sized-pike-caught-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/giant-record-sized-pike-caught-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant, Record-Sized Pike Caught in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The first time Nick Gahagan fished Chew Valley Lake in Somerset, England, he caught a northern pike that set a brand new waterbody report and almost broke the British report. This was final Thursday, Feb. 16. The 43-year-old stone mason and father of 4 normally fishes the River Avon, however he was on the lookout for a change of surroundings that day. So, he introduced his gear to the 1,200-acre lake west of London, the place he rapidly discovered that he\u2019d made the correct name. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a huge bite, and I knew straight away it was a big pike,\u201d Gahagan informed <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2023\/02\/anglers-enormous-pike-is-the-catch-of-several-lifetimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">USA Today<\/a>. \u201cI picked up my rod and it almost bent in half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Next:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outdoorlife.com\/fishing\/fly-fishing-for-pike\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Let\u2019s Get Real About Catching Pike on the Fly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The heavy fish made a blistering first run. Armed with an Ugly Stik rod and 40-pound braid, Gahagan did the perfect he may to maintain stress on the pike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the hardest fighting fish I\u2019ve ever encountered, so strong that my [rod] was absolutely bent double,\u201d Gahagan stated. \u201cI really did think she was gonna spool me on her first run as she went off like an absolute train. The fight went on for a good while before she rolled to the surface and succumbed to the net.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmackereloil%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0UTiZTnJzo7CKNVmjkW1LbKRpuWdzkcWKgdkYXxNtAQ1WRHy7c8mYEaczoibfigGrl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"545\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gahagan was utilizing a lifeless sardine as bait, in keeping with a Facebook publish by the UK-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mackereloil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Holy Mackerel Fish Oil Co.<\/a> This wasn\u2019t your typical canned sardine, although, as he\u2019d injected and sprayed it with the strong-smelling fish attractant. Gahagan additionally chummed alongside the shoreline that morning with chopped fish that he\u2019d soaked within the stuff for a full two weeks. He figured the chum would carry trout into the world, which might then draw within the bigger predatory fish.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-a-giant-by-north-american-standards\">A Giant by North American Standards<\/h2>\n<p>Gahagan weighed the 44-pound, 7-ounce fish in entrance of a number of witnesses. After snapping a couple of grip-and-grins with the large pike, he launched it into the lake. His catch will go down as a brand new lake report, and it\u2019s solely two kilos shy of the British report\u2014a 46-pound, 7-ounce fish caught 31 years in the past.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\" data-dimension=\"portrait\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.outdoorlife.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/24\/England_pike_2.webp?ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.outdoorlife.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/24\/England_pike_2.webp?ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.outdoorlife.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/24\/England_pike_2.webp?ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.outdoorlife.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/24\/England_pike_2.webp?ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.outdoorlife.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/24\/England_pike_2.webp?ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.outdoorlife.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/24\/England_pike_2.webp?ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.outdoorlife.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/24\/England_pike_2.webp?ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.outdoorlife.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/24\/England_pike_2.webp?ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.outdoorlife.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/24\/England_pike_2.webp?ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.outdoorlife.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/24\/England_pike_2.webp?ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.outdoorlife.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/24\/England_pike_2.webp?ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.outdoorlife.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/24\/England_pike_2.webp?ssl=1\" alt=\"England pike 2\" class=\"wp-image-234033\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gahagan\u2019s pike weighed 44 kilos, 7 ounces. <i>through Facebook<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s additionally inside vary of the IGFA all-tackle world report for the species. That 50-plus-pound pike was pulled from Germany\u2019s Lake Grefeern by angler Lothar Lews in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Pike this large are virtually extraordinary in North America, the place fish over 30 kilos are a rarity. Most U.S. anglers consider Canada and Alaska as being residence to the world\u2019s largest pike, however many of the actual giants over time have come from European waters. Looking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/igfa.org\/igfa-world-records-search\/?search_type=CommonNameSummary&amp;search_term_1=Pike%2C+northern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IGFA report e-book<\/a>, Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland have all given up 40-pound pike. A 46-pound Northern was reportedly pulled from New York\u2019s Great Sacandaga Lake again in 1946, however the largest pike recorded in North America since then is a 34-pound, 8-ounce fish that was caught in Alaska .<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v3.2\" id=\"facebook-js-js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The first time Nick Gahagan fished Chew Valley Lake in Somerset, England, he caught a northern pike that set a brand new waterbody report and almost broke the British report. This was final Thursday, Feb. 16. The 43-year-old stone mason and father of 4 normally fishes the River Avon, however he was on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.outdoorlife.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/24\/England_pike.jpg?auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-outdoor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}