Specimen hunting

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Under the specimen hunting refers to a special version of the anglers that deal with the capture of very large fish a species (specimen Engl. = Pattern copy) busy. In contrast to other common forms of fishing, specimen hunting competitions are not about the greatest total weight of the caught fish, but only about the largest specimen of a species caught.

Specimen hunting is particularly popular in Great Britain , but there is also interest in Germany. Typical fish for the "specimen hunter", as the big fish hunters are called in the scene, are pike , carp and chub , but anglers also focus on tench , bream and crucian carp .

In the UK, specimen hunting is regulated by the British Record Fish Committee .

Specimen hunting began to spread in the UK especially after World War II. Richard Walker, a pioneer of specimen hunting for carp , played a decisive role here . The public attention that surrounded his catch - and subsequent transfer to London Zoo - of the 44-pound Clarissa carp led to the surge in popularity of carp fishing in general, and specimen hunting in particular.

Remarks

  1. ^ Adrian Franklin: Animals and Modern Cultures: A Sociology of Human-Animal Relations in Modernity SAGE, 1999 ISBN 0761956239 , p. 112
  2. ^ A b Coarse fishing in: Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew: Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports , Psychology Press, 2005 ISBN 041535224X

literature

  • Roland Fiedler, Rolf Maring, Bernd Steffen: Catching capital fish. Parey, 1984, ISBN 3-490-04214-X .
  • Jim Gibbinson: Modern Specimen Hunting , Beekay International 1983, ISBN 978-0-950-75987-6
  • Robin Illner: Big fish fishing. Müller Rüschlikon Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-275-01692-1 .
  • Richard Walker: Still-water angling , 1953

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