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#1 Post by eoghanb »

Just found this picture ,it's a 6lb mackeral ,caught in 84' and current british record
Imagine that was the averageImage
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#2 Post by red »

If 4/5 lb macks were common then bass would be a bye catch[emoji2]
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#3 Post by breamers boy »

red wrote:If 4/5 lb macks were common then Bass would be a bye catch[emoji2]
Yes I always wished that mackerel grew to 8/10 lb


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#4 Post by hugo »

Amazing. But if they were all that big they'd have been trawled to extinction decades ago.....
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#5 Post by ste c »

say he gave a good scrap
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#6 Post by BRACKEN »

haha... would love to get a full 5 or 6 string of them! :lol:
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