Seeing the threads about Thames trout has made me wonder - what's the most peculiar/unexpected place you've caught trout?

Mine's a muddy lode deep in the Cambridgeshire fens, when I was actually after chub (though still on fly).

I'm intrigued to see where they show up.

once had a 6" brownie up in the headwaters of a north york moors stream .......nothing strange in that i hear YOU SAY .. well there is because the fish was in water no wider than 12" and the interesting part is the water was above a 6 foot high boulder with no way of getting by it ,no land drains up there etc etc

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Hi SharkeyP

I like your new avatar.

You didn't tell me you had some private fishing near your home. You'll be stocking it with rainbows next!!

I once caught a tiny 6oz brownie in Dinckley Brook, Ribchester. The stream was just a narrow drainage ditch at that point with underscored banks. Yes, you've guessed I tickled it. I was twelve at the time. :eek

BK

Although I did not catch it or even try, a couple of years back I spotted a Brown Trout that was well over 2lb sat in a concrete storm stained no wider than 3ft in about 10inch of water. This was behind the bus station in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Todmorden is not renound for its specimen Brown Trout fishing. It was late September so l am assuming that the fish had moved up into the drain to spawn, the drain runs into the River Calder.

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A few years ago I saw a brown trout about 1 lb caught in a match on the Grand Union canal at West Drayton near Heathrow.

When I was about 14 yrs of age , which is a long time ago, I took part in the junior section of a British Legion Club fishing match on the Lancaster canal near Garstang during which I caught a brownie weighing a pound and a half.

It was the biggest fish caught by a junior angler and I was a bit miffed when I was told it didn't count and I wouldn't be getting the top prize in the junior match. The trout would have given me top weight and biggest fish prize had it counted.

I'm sure it was laughing when I let it go

I caught a 3lb 14oz brownie in the river bourne, Chertsey, Surrey, a Thames tributary, great scrap on a 1lb point with a size20 hook ,single maggot, memorable fish, from a stream less than 10ft wide,never found another though!!!!
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