57lb British Record Pike

Right lads, this weeks Angling Times has posted a picture of a possible new British Record Pike caught.....................IN BLOODY LEEDS

Have a look at the only crap picture and see what you think

Firstly, what a crap picture, secondly,is that a young lad? and thirdly, holy crap thats a huge fish
Dont know exactly how you go about submitting a record fish, but you'd think there'd need to be proper edujication

It does look like a very big Pike for sure. But a picture that bad, leaves a lot of doubt.

Who in the 21st century does'nt have access to a digital camera, even a mobile phone, this ones going to cause a lot of controversy.

Its a 17year old lad that caught it froma local pond (1.2acres) something just does not ring true to me, I hate being such a cynic but I think photoshop has been used

Or another set of Netto scales

nixon wrote:Who in the 21st century does'nt have access to a digital camera, even a mobile phone, this ones going to cause a lot of controversy.

It already is Tim, the lads on P&P are all over it

Woodchucker wrote:Its a 17year old lad that caught it froma local pond (1.2acres) something just does not ring true to me, I hate being such a cynic but I think photoshop has been used

Or another set of Netto scales

Hit the nail on the haed there I think.

i,m not expert but it could be a ghosted picture
where one is layed over a negative then scan , the blurring can be a way of covering up the errors so the the scrutineers can,t say its fake

hell what do i know i,m no david bailey

be back soon i,m going to my photoshop

I just put it side by side with the Lothar Louis pike, the size and proportions look similar (Im not saying its the same fish), but size wise its very similar. But like you said, the technology available today,theres no limit to what can be done with the likes of photoshop.
If its real, then hats off to the lad, but if this gets accepted as a true british record,then I'll eat my shoe.

I would love it to be true but a 1.2acre water that gets pike fished on a regular basis (Not by me) and the fish has never come out before, it just does not make sence.

thats exacly what i was then doing tim great mine huh

nixon wrote:I just put it side by side with the Lothar Louis pike, the size and proportions look similar (Im not saying its the same fish), but size wise its very similar. But like you said, the technology available today,theres no limit to what can be done with the likes of photoshop.
If its real, then hats off to the lad, but if this gets accepted as a true british record,then I'll eat my shoe.

I did the very same thing Tim and I will pack in Pike fishing if it gets accepted as the new British Record

Not a chance !!...............I hope.

its allways the same whem its a record fish it gets right up my nose
when i had it happen to me when i caught my 8lb perch

, that could make the countryfile calendar