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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

I suppose it depends on how big his hands are. To go 5 oz I would have thought Michaelangelo's David size myself.

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!)

Poor little thing.

Not sure about it being 5 oz but its still a big gonk for sure

Impossible to estimate the size accurately from the poor angle the photo is taken at.

It is enormous and many times bigger than any gudgeon I've caught.

It's a big gudgeon but it doesn't look 5 oz to me in this picture. It would also have been nice to see damp hands handling it.

Totally agree Shaun, it's a fine specimen though, fine perfect

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!