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British Fish Records

Extraordinary fish, officially recognised. Explore selected British rod-caught records adjudicated by the British Record (Rod Caught) Fish Committee, covering species found in RiverFish’s survey catalogue.

BRFC records authenticate angling catches. RiverFish's Environment Agency measurements come from population surveys: a survey maximum is neither an authenticated angling record nor a measure of the biggest fish in British waters.

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From the official listing

Barbel

Fisher'Green, River Lea.

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22 lb 10 oz

Find a British fish record

This directory covers a selected set of species. Each category has its own entry. Joint catches share a page; closed cultivated lists and frozen boat weight records are labelled separately.

27 record categories

coarse · Rod-caught record

Bleak

4 oz 9 dms

Dennis Flack · 1998

River Lark, Cambridgeshire

Official BRFC sourceSource updated: 10th June 2026

coarse · Rod-caught record

Chub

9 lb 5 oz

Andy Make · 2007

Southern Stillwater

Official BRFC sourceSource updated: 10th June 2026

coarse · Rod-caught record

Eel

11 lb 3 oz

Steven Ricketts · 2024

Southern stillwater

Official BRFC sourceSource updated: 10th June 2026

coarse · Rod-caught record

Minnow

0 oz 13.5 dms

J Sawyer · 1998

Whitworth Lake, Spennymoor

Official BRFC sourceSource updated: 10th June 2026

coarse · Joint record

Perch

6 lb 3 oz

Neil Stephen · 2011

Stream Valley Lakes, Crowborough, Sussex

Ken Brown · 2011

Willstone Fishery, Tring, Hertfordshire

Official BRFC sourceSource updated: 10th June 2026

coarse · Rod-caught record

Pike

47 lb 05 oz

Lloyd Watson · 2024

Chew Valley Lake, Somerset

Official BRFC sourceSource updated: 10th June 2026

coarse · Joint record

Roach

4 lb 3ox

Keith Berry · 2006

Stillwater, Northern Ireland

Dai Gribble · 2024

Linear Fisheries, Oxfordshire

Official BRFC sourceSource updated: 10th June 2026

coarse · Joint record

Rudd

4 lb 10 oz

Simon Parry · 2001

Freshwater Lake, Co Armagh, N.Ireland

Simon Parry · 2001

Clay Lake, Co Armagh, N.Ireland

Official BRFC sourceSource updated: 10th June 2026

coarse · Rod-caught record

Ruffe

5 oz 4 dms

R J Jenkins · 1980

West View Farm, Cumbria

Official BRFC sourceSource updated: 10th June 2026

coarse · Rod-caught record

Tench

15 lb 3 oz 6 dms

D Ward · 2001

Private Fishery, Staines, Surrey

Official BRFC sourceSource updated: 10th June 2026

Sources and identity

How to read the records

Natural, resident and cultivated classifications are retained as published. A catch year does not establish an exact date. Cultivated lists closed in April 2015 and boat-caught sea weight records frozen in 2024 are historical categories. Shore and boat records remain separate.

River awards require a confirmed relationship to an existing RiverFish river. Shared names, stillwaters and conflicting source locations do not receive speculative awards. No catch coordinates or photographs are inferred.

Consult the BRFC coarse list, game list, sea list and Angling Trust record-fish directory for the official publications.

Sources last checked: 29/10/2026. Checks run weekly; a failed extraction keeps the previous validated snapshot.

Coarse source updated 10th June 2026.

Game source updated January 2024.

Sea source updated 3rd September 2026.