Was this giant bullhead a record breaker?

LURE fishing fanatic Nick Firth reckons he banked a British record bullhead – but we’ll never know because he slipped it back, thinking it wouldn’t register on his scales!

The 52-year-old from Holmfirth was drop shotting a dendrobaena worm next to a lock gate on the Huddersfield Canal when he received a tentative bite from what he suspected was a small perch.

“When this jet-back thing popped out of the water I couldn’t believe what I was looking at,” Nick said.

“In 40 years of fishing I’d never seen one, let alone caught one, but I recognised what it was and posted a picture on Facebook. 

“Comments poured in saying that the record was just 1oz and that I had a decent claim, but it was too late. I reckon mine was around the 2oz-3oz mark!”

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