5oz gudgeon caught?
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5oz gudgeon caught?
I have seen this on the Facebook gudgeon group. It says it's a 5oz gudgeon...
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater
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Re: 5oz gudgeon caught?
I suppose it depends on how big his hands are. To go 5 oz I would have thought Michaelangelo's David size myself.
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Re: 5oz gudgeon caught?
On my medium-sized paw that would be about 16cm/6 1/2 inches, which on a fairly chunky gudge would be about 2 1/2 oz, usually. That is an exceptionally chunky one, but even so, I have my doubts. (I remember having one such carefully weighed on beam-scales after a match, many years ago. Almost square in section, it seemed - the average gudgeon being almost triangular. The big 'uns do seem to pack on some back-muscle!)
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Re: 5oz gudgeon caught?
Poor little thing.
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Re: 5oz gudgeon caught?
Not sure about it being 5 oz but its still a big gonk for sure
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Re: 5oz gudgeon caught?
Impossible to estimate the size accurately from the poor angle the photo is taken at.
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Re: 5oz gudgeon caught?
It is enormous and many times bigger than any gudgeon I've caught.
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Re: 5oz gudgeon caught?
I caught some huge gudgeon from the wandle before it was polluted a few years back.
I know the pollution didn't effect the whole river so probably still a few monsters in there at one point I honestly thought it was going to do the record.
What a great picture such wonderful looking fish well done that man whatever the size!
I know the pollution didn't effect the whole river so probably still a few monsters in there at one point I honestly thought it was going to do the record.
What a great picture such wonderful looking fish well done that man whatever the size!