History of Barbel Captures from the Costessey fishery. ..Back
Whilst there has never been any known, deliberate attempt to record the full history of the growth and details of all the barbel that have been caught in the Costessey stretch of the River Wensum, Steve Harper, one of the more successful anglers who led the way with the first double figure fish from the stretch, has kept a tally of fish caught by some of the anglers fishing the original syndicate.
Steve has kindly contributed the list detailed below and would, as much as the rest of the CPP Steering Committee, like to see a complete record list compiled. There is obviously an invitation in this for anyone having caught on or more of the Costessey barbel to submit a report to the CPP Committee to develop this list more comprehensively.
If you are one of those people or can guide the Committee to a captor of such fish, then please do contact us with such details as you may have and we will follow them up.
For now though these are the currently known captures and successive period record fish:
Costessey Barbel Records 11.14 Stephen Harper 1977
12.04 Arthur Clarke 1980
12.12 Trevor West 1983
13.02 Dave Plummer 1984
13.06 Dave Plummer 1984 top of page Some other big Costessey barbel after 1984 12.12 J. Wilson 1984
12.02 K. Gardner 1990
12.12 S. Allen 1992
13.04 M. Clouser 1993
12.12 S. Earp 1994
12.02 Brian Ward 1996
12.14 S. Harper 1996
14.01 J. Crameri 1998
14.08 S. Hunt 1998
14.14 Al Brown 1998
14.06 J. Bedder 1999
14.02 C. Turnbull 2002
Don't forget to read the articles about some of the fishing at Costessey.
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