Record Salmon

[Greenheart]

Did anyone see that Photo in this weeks Angling Times of a Salmon estimated to weigh 75lb & caught on a fly from the river Ness in Scotland. It had a length of 56" & a girth of 40" The captor was a guy called Don Milne. He very sportingly returned it alive. However it was witnessed by three other anglers & two Gillies. The current record of 64lb is held by a Miss Georgina Ballantine & was caught from the river Tay Scotland in 1922. It was 54" long & had a girth of 28.5".

[Norfolkboy]

What a fish! Would love to see a picture.

[fishypaul]

wow ! what a lump

[biggun]

Yes! Apparently they didn't have any scales that could weigh it as theirs only went up to 50lbs or something so the record still stands!

[Vagabond]

I've seen the picture.

Nowhere near the 100lb originally claimed in one of our national dailies (looks more like 40 lb in the picture) , and the fish in the picture DEFINITELY isn't an Atlantic salmon.

It's one of the Pacific salmonids, possibly a steelhead (ie a sea-going rainbow) - amongst other features it has a heavily spotted tail.

[Vagabond]

Originally Posted by Greenheart

75lb & caught on a fly from the river Ness in Scotland. It had a length of 56" & a girth of 40"

record of 64lb is held by a Miss Georgina Ballantine It was 54" long & had a girth of 28.5".

Hmmmmmmm Now I've done a bit of work on length, girth and weight relationships.

Miss Ballantine's fish fits a formula of girth squared times length (all in inches) divided by 700
ie 28.5 X 28.5 X 54 /700 = 62.6 lbs, which tallies quite closely with the 64 lb recorded.

Remember that fish was set up and was measured most carefully.

By contrast the measurements of the "Ness" fish are 40 X 40 X 56/700 which comes to 128 lbs !!!!!

Clearly there is something very fishy about the reported measurements - just as there is something very fishy about the identification!

[Vagabond]

Originally Posted by Norfolkboy

What a fish! Would love to see a picture.

Here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

Now look at this for comparison

http://www.nature-discovery.com/home/nd1/page/44/39

Look particularly at the two tails.

[Greenheart]

I must confess, I did wonder about the Dimension to weight ratio myself. As i've never caught a Salmon (Still living in hope) I can't really comment on it's identifying features with regard to species.