Giant albino grass carp...from a river!

YOU won’t come across a more unusual river capture this season so far, than that of Kelly Crush. Who on her first session of the river season caught this clonking 20lb albino grass carp.

Not your typical river capture…a 20lb albino grass carp

Fishing a stretch of the River Rother, Kelly was lost for words when the fish that she had seen three years previous was finally in her net.

“To say I was on cloud nine wouldn’t come close to the elation I was feeling”, she said.

Reflecting on catching the giant river ornamental, Kelly told Angling Times:

“It’s a fish I first spotted back in November 2017 while deadbaiting for pike. From that day on it became my target, and come the beginning of the 2020 river season I was raring to go.

“I’d spent two months baiting a swim 1.5km from where I park my car, so after arriving on June 15 for a three-day session I used an inflatable dinghy with an electric outboard to take all my gear to the spot.

“The first two days of my session passed with nothing more than a few bream, so when the bobbin rose again I thought it was another of the same. But after striking I felt something powerful on the other end surge upriver. It fought really hard down in the depths and when it eventually surfaced I saw which fish it was. I screamed to my fishing companion, Ted: “It’s the albino!” and we slipped it into the net.

“I lost a shoe releasing it and went home sunburnt, covered in mosquito bites and silt – but it was all worth it!”

Kelly was lost for words after catching this 20lb albino grass carp

To follow more of Kelly’s fishing adventures, check her out on Instagram - @fishing_with_kelly_crush