Its been a while since weve seen anything like this come out of local rivers !
A 7 1/2 lb Brown Trout was caught by a first time Angler in the River Aire – Bingley Length.
Novice angler – Brendan Bailey , 23, caught the ’zoo creature’ after purchasing a starter kit from KL Tackle , Keighley and a Bingley Angling Club Yearbook.
He has been recovering from a serious accident some years ago and had to have the assistance of a friend to land the fish which took more than 1/2 hour to get in.
The fish fell to a maggot on the feeder after a short while of Brendan starting to fish.
Just goes to show you that there are some very big fish where you least expect them!
August 7, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Apparently – according to the T & A Article there are salmon in the River Aire – despite the fluke reported catch of a salmon caught at Saltaire a couple of years ago (how true I don’t know!) – I thinks that this is much more likely to be caught on the Aire http://www.flickr.com/photos/noshowerfamily/248100870/
August 13, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Hi
I have just read the report of the 7 1/2lb trout caught on the Aire well done Brenndan. I also fish the Aire further upstream near Skipton & also have had a similar sized Brown trout whilst dead baiting for Pike in January the fish took a 6″ hearing on the drop.
Again well done these fish will be talked about for many years to come.
Tony
August 13, 2009 at 9:41 pm
congrats brenndanwell done nans chuffed too
August 26, 2009 at 9:19 pm
it has come to are attention when you caught this fish you didnt have the right to fish the bingley stretch due to it been private.
August 27, 2009 at 7:43 am
RE Mr “Environment Agency”
Well it’s come to OUR attention that the author of this mail needs to go back to school and learn some basic spelling.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spelling-Today-Ages-6-7/dp/0713670835/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251358923&sr=8-13 might be useful.
By the way – since when has the Environment Agency had a residential Blueyonder IP Address in Bradford – 82.42.250.161 ? You’ll have to get up earlier in the morning to catch me out mate
December 4, 2011 at 5:37 pm
loooooooooooooooooool admin;]