It`s always pleasant to be able to
report a cryptozoology or Fortean story from my home town of Macclesfield. You
may well quote the sceptics comment to Jesus “Can anything good come out of
Nazareth
So the Macclesfield Express of June
22nd 2016 contained a letter from R.W. Hughes of Congleton under the
headline CANAL FIND WAS A GIANT (FISH – word missing
)
Recently my wife and I were
travelling along the Macclesfield canal on our narrowboat `Aurthora Celtic
Prince.` At bridge 64 near Macclesfield I noticed a massive dead fish in the
water which I managed to pull to the bank,and my wife Susan took a photograph
which I enclose ( paper contains the photo which shows a brown fish with a hint
of orange – R).
Not being an angler I don`t know
what breed of fish this is, but I am sure some of your readers can enlighten me.
The size of the fish was 24 inches by 8 inches wide, weight 26lb. This monster
had been in the water for some time as it was beginning to decompose, I would be
interested to also know what age a fish like this could reach. As an
observation, from Bosley locks until Marple junction there is (sic) over 20
miles of canal without locks, a vast length of water capable of supporting a
fish of this size*.
I thought this may be of interest to
your readers.
RW
Hughes
* I happen to know the Macclesfield Canal
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