Philip Smith caught this fish from a pool near York and says, “Generally in the past I’ve tended to work on the simple rule that says, ‘if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck, then pretty much it’s usually a duck.’
“Because I’ve just caught a new personal best “Thingy”, which ups my personal best by almost 50%! “In the past I would have been pleased to call this a crucian carp, but not now. Is it a brown goldfish? A crucian/bream cross? Or another type of hybrid, or the real thing? “Only Alwyne Wheeler and his team apparently can tell for sure. “So what do I do now? Well, as all my other ‘crucians’ have come from sites outside the magical three ‘certainties’, I’m going to tell you. I’m going to put it on my records as the same as all the previous ones – a glorious 4lb 11oz, Crucian……. ‘Thingy’. Note from Graham Incidentally, this Phil Smith is not well known specialist angler Phil Smith who is a member of the British Record Fish Committee. |
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