angler fish canvey

Member Joined: Apr 19, 2007 Posts: 38 Location: Southend

I was looking through uk fishing records and I found the shore caught record for an angler fish it is 68lb 2oz caught at canvey in 1967. I didn't know that they were in british fish. I think it deserves another award for ugliest fish. Does anyone know of any of these being caught locally in recent years?

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Limey is your best bet. I seem to remember he had an article on angler fish a while back.

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 2:32 am

I believe a dead specimen weighing 80lb+ was washed up in this area just recently.

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:08 pm

On an November day in 1954, some citizens of Canvey Island, Britain, were said to have found a bizarre looking animal in the shallow water of a beach.
Those who found the dead thing dragged it up onto the sand, covered it with seaweed, and ran to tell the authorities; the local authorities contacted the federal authorities, and the federal authorities responded by sending two zoologists. These two gentlemen examined and photographed the corpse, then admitted they had never seen anything like it.
The unknown creature appeared to be a marine animal, but with feet and legs it could walk on if it chose; standing upright, it would have been about two and a half feet tall. The feet had five toes arranged in a 'U' shape, with a concave arch. the creature also had a thick, brownish-red skin and a pulpy head with two protruding eyes.
The body was cremated by the zoologists, who then left without making a public statement about the corpse.
On August 11, 1954, the Reverend Joseph Overs was walking along the beaches of Canvey Island a couple of miles from the site of the corpse's discovery, when he ran across a second body floating in a shallow tidepool. He contacted the local authorities, and they, once again, sent for expert help.
This new body was not only taller than the last -- four feet tall, standing -- but was in overall better condition too. The specialists stated that the body weighed about twenty-five pounds, had two large eyes, nostrils, strong, sharp teeth in its mouth, and gills. Its skin was pink and tough, like the hide of a healthy pig. Like the corpse found before it, the new body had two legs and feet, the feet possesing the odd toes arranged in a 'U' shape with a concave center.

Maybe it was an Angler Fish?

Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 2:53 pm

I remember walking along the rocks collecting lost weights near to Thorney bay (Labworth cafe side) in about 1980 and me and a couple of mates found the remains of an Angler fish washed up on the shore. That fish when alive would have easily topped 40lb.

It was uglier than my sister in law, and that takes some doing.

We used to sell the excess weights that we found to Olivers in the high street. Anyone remember Olivers?

Member Joined: Apr 19, 2007 Posts: 38 Location: Southend

I don't remember olivers but I do have two extremely ugly sister-in-laws I call them ugg 1 and ugg2 they are pretty useful though they keep the neighbours cats from shitting on my lawn and at the end of the day they scury off under their bridge.

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Sheddy wrote:

I remember walking along the rocks collecting lost weights near to Thorney bay (Labworth cafe side) in about 1980 and me and a couple of mates found the remains of an Angler fish washed up on the shore. That fish when alive would have easily topped 40lb.

It was uglier than my sister in law, and that takes some doing.

We used to sell the excess weights that we found to Olivers in the high street. Anyone remember Olivers?

I remember Olivers. I used to go in there and buy second hand leads, before going over to Thorney Bay and losing them. Over by Cod Corner, The point nearest the Labworth Cafe.......... :cry: Now, does anyone remember V A Barnes in the high road, Benfleet. I remember Victor before he died, selling me coffin leads to go down to the eel dykes with, plus packets of size 10 kirby's from Mustad, in a white and blue plastic sachet. I used to go and get his widow's pie mash and liquer from Clarkes Seafood bar down by the station (which I notice has changed hands and re-opened as a seafood terrace restaurant!), and then pop in for her prescription in the Chemists. Later on, I got my first Saturday job in there, and for a very short time had a go at providing peeler crabs and lugworm to them. Happy days!!