unusual fish in the brirish isles

[gazmalman]

which is exactly what i am doing traveller, not to mention the gobys

[The Traveler]

simon ashton currently holds the uk dace record from the river wear,but it can so easily be broken,yer just need patients and a bit of luck on yer side, try down by the side of the ice rink @ durham,just the other side of the big bush or somewhere near the baths in durahm.
Also yer could try whessoe road pond darlington for the "Pumpkin Seed" record which came out from there in the 80s i think,yeah pumpkinseed thats right,check the uk rod caught records for that one,also shaftoes pond for the record minnow,and if someone dont claim the gudgeon record from the oaks, wel i certainly will next year.
The bricky in stockton holds some massive eels,not sure if a landlocked eel could be deemed a record breaker,but when i was a kid i used to see a crowd of older blokes fishing all the time in vareous places and later found that most of em worked with me dad which was a advantage to me from a learning point of veiw,so any way this one early summer morning me mate and i had decided to pre bait the night b4 with sweetcorn for the next morning for the tench,when we got there we were horrored to our pegs taken by me dads worrk colleuges,they werent fishing for tench but eels,one of them was jumping about excited to bits on asking what all the fuss was about davey said he thinks hes got the uk record for eel, when frankie flyn informed anglers mail (i think) he was only a few ounces from the british record,so the bricky of all the places-mad one-good luck gaza with the records

[The Traveler]

for game fish the river wear has had several unconfirmed records for sea trout, me self included on that one having broke the record about 4 times in the 80s and come very close a few times after that,but unless yer on the wear morning noon and night or jus dead lucky the probabilty is very hard

[Hopper]

where you from traveller ?

[The Traveler]

from stockton originally but live a bit further north now

[Hopper]

im a hardwick lad meself, might know ya like

[The Traveler]

well hopper you know now but keep my identity to yourself please cheers

[Hopper]

will do mate

[leeboy]

this topic is no onger about the strange fish so i bid goodbye trav

[The Traveler]

the post is still about unusal fish.
Billingham,Thorpe,Whitton and Stillington beck have two types of loach or one loach and maybe one weather fish i dont know which is which,when i was a kid ppl used to say they was catfish in there,they were always seen where the A 177 croses the beck jus before thorpe thewls,under the road bridge,ive never once thought they were wels cats but maybe balck or brown bullhead,up until now,and now im thinking maybe burbot which were once a prodominant species in the tees system,by the way im onabout the middle 70s here not recently,so yer jus never know,they is a lot of beck there where browns and rainbows grow to incredable sizes,so if the trout can swin about for years on end undetected or caught, it shows that the beck is hardly fished and very remote as far as anglers are concerned,unspoilt.i have never caught roach in there from billingham right up past stillington but know loads of ppl who have ive had loads of big trout from there but know loads who ahvent,so possably the burbot was once there dont know, i cant find no referenace to any burbot getting caught from the tees system on the internet anywhere but they were definately part of the tees ecosystem---------jus a thought--------if prhistoric fish like the celocanth can undetected for millions of year s well yer never know,i wonder if anglers mail still give a £1000 reward for a burbot capture?

[The Traveler]

i hear stories from all round the country of anglers catching catfish? the areas of england im onabout are the east coast from the river tees downover,these cats are reprted as being small from the swale, trent,ure,yorkshire ouse,nidd,and the wharfe to name a few,well im sure by now that wels have been ilegaly stocked in to some of the waters mentioned but im still suspiceous as the sizes of these fish are staying small unlkie the wels,maybe burbot i think again, any veiws or stories from fish fitting this description would be appreciated 

[The Traveler]

Bulltrout or somemight say Slobtrout!!!
Another varient from the (salmo trutta) ;brown,sea,lake trout only this one dont actually go out to sea, but migrates downriver in to the estuary like say sunderland for instance,also they is a another form which actually migates from lakes into rivers,donneghans i think the irish call them,always wondered if these fish behaved the same way in english lakes like say ulswater as it has a river that come out of the lake,i also find it unusual that the native whitefish in ulswater (the schelly) dont actually leave the lake and migrate down river