Polish angler Kacper Stępień may very well be a brand new world-record-holder for frequent carp after touchdown a large fish from Euro Aqua, a personal lake in Hungary and a famend carp fishery. Stępień was fishing there on Sept. 16 when he caught the 104.5-pound frequent carp, which might simply break the present IGFA all-tackle world report ought to it’s accepted by the group.
The potential world-record catch was highlighted in a current put up on Euro-Aqua’s Fb web page and on Stępień’s private web page. The Polish fisherman defined in his put up that his solely objective that journey was to catch his personal-best carp. He’d at all times imagined catching a world-record frequent carp on the lake however didn’t suppose it was seemingly.
“In fact it was a dream and it’s ‘unimaginable,’” Stępień writes in a translated model of his Fb put up. “As a result of what are the [odds] of catching the larges cyprinus on the earth that nobody has ever caught?”
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Stępień explains in his translated put up that chilly climate and robust winds made fishing tough throughout the first few days. However he and his friends caught with it and landed greater than 100 carp by the week’s finish. He referred to as it a “session of [a] life[time]”. A dozen of these fish weighed over 66 kilos, however none surpassed the 104.5-pound frequent carp he caught and launched at Euro Aqua.
Stępień caught the fish utilizing a rolled dough ball, often known as a boilie, and the identical sort of bait ball used to feed fish within the personal pay lake.
On paper, his carp simply surpasses the present IGFA all-tackle world report for frequent carp. That fish weighed 75 kilos 11 ounces, and it was caught in France in 1987 by Leo van der Gugten.
To ensure that Stępień’s report to be accepted by the IGFA, nevertheless, he’ll should submit it for report consideration — a prolonged course of that requires a big quantity of paperwork. IGFA judges would then scrutinize each side of the catch, from the sort out and scale used to the witnesses who have been there that day.
It’s unclear at this level if Stępień will submit his fish to the IGFA for report consideration. There are many social media commenters who say the fish can’t be a real report as a result of Stępień caught the carp from a personal water physique. And though the IGFA will contemplate report entries for fish caught in some personal waterbodies, the group doesn’t settle for functions “for fish caught in hatchery waters, sanctuaries or small our bodies of water which might be stocked with fish for industrial functions.”
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It’s potential that Euro Aqua would match considered one of these descriptions. Besides, that risk doesn’t appear to trouble Stępień.
“I had tears in my eyes once I landed the fish,” the Polish angler informed the Angling Instances. “It was enormous, and it made my desires come true. It is a fish I’ve at all times needed to catch, and to lastly have my second with it’s one thing I’ll always remember.”