Polish angler Kacper Stępień could very effectively be a model new world-record-holder for frequent carp after landing an unlimited fish from Euro Aqua, a private lake in Hungary and a renowned carp fishery. Stępień was fishing there on Sept. 16 when he caught the 104.5-pound frequent carp, which could merely break the current IGFA all-tackle world report must it is accepted by the group.
The potential world-record catch was highlighted in a contemporary publish on Euro-Aqua’s Fb net web page and on Stępień’s non-public net web page. The Polish fisherman outlined in his publish that his solely goal that journey was to catch his personal-best carp. He’d always imagined catching a world-record frequent carp on the lake nevertheless didn’t assume it was potential.
“In truth it was a dream and it is ‘unimaginable,’” Stępień writes in a translated mannequin of his Fb publish. “On account of what are the [odds] of catching the larges cyprinus on the planet that no one has ever caught?”
Stępień explains in his translated publish that chilly local weather and sturdy winds made fishing powerful all through the primary few days. Nonetheless he and his associates caught with it and landed better than 100 carp by the week’s end. He often called it a “session of [a] life[time]”. A dozen of those fish weighed over 66 kilos, nevertheless none surpassed the 104.5-pound frequent carp he caught and launched at Euro Aqua.
Stępień caught the fish using a rolled dough ball, additionally referred to as a boilie, and the similar kind of bait ball used to feed fish throughout the private pay lake.
On paper, his carp merely surpasses the current 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 make sure that Stępień’s report back to be accepted by the IGFA, nonetheless, he’ll must submit it for report consideration — a chronic course of that requires a giant amount of paperwork. IGFA judges would then scrutinize every aspect of the catch, from the kind out and scale used to the witnesses who had been there that day.
It’s unclear at this stage if Stępień will submit his fish to the IGFA for report consideration. There are lots of social media commenters who say the fish can’t be an actual report because of Stępień caught the carp from a private water physique. And although the IGFA will consider report entries for fish caught in some private waterbodies, the group would not accept features “for fish caught in hatchery waters, sanctuaries or small our our bodies of water which may be stocked with fish for enterprise features.”
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It’s attainable that Euro Aqua would match definitely one among these descriptions. Moreover, that danger doesn’t seem to problem Stępień.
“I had tears in my eyes as soon as I landed the fish,” the Polish angler suggested the Angling Events. “It was massive, and it made my targets come true. It’s a fish I’ve always wanted to catch, and to lastly have my second with it is one factor I am going to at all times bear in mind.”