Third spot went to Rob Chapman with a single
conger eel for 1.90kg.
We believe the picture was taken in the 1980s | Georgina the Macaw settles in with the keeper at her enclosure at the Ocean World and Butterfly Jungle, Rhyl, in August 1987 | Not much work for these donkeys on a deserted Rhyl beach on a blustery Easter Monday in the early 1990s | Left, young holiday makers Michael and Robert Mellor look on in amazement at Conan the giant
conger eel, the latest attraction at Rhyl's Sea Life Centre in 1995.
In the past we Brits would eat practically anything - blackbirds, sparrows, peacocks, swan,
conger eel, porpoise and even lampreys (a surfeit of which famously did for Henry I).
The most exciting option would be a
conger eel which can grow to a maximum 3m length.
Using a 8/0 running leger rig baited with two squid Francis captured a 25lb 8oz
conger eel, certainly enjoying his first ever trip.
It landed him his first ever
conger eel and also this beautiful 14lb undulate ray.
A
conger eel caught in a seagrass meadow in Porth Dinllaen, North Wales
Who Quiz of the Day ANSWERS: 1 Male impersonation; 2 The Bay of Bengal; 3 Sam Wanamaker; 4 Ernest Rutherford; 5 Known by several different names; 6 Sun Yat-Sen; 7 Stanley Matthews; 8 The Doppler effect; 9 The
conger eel; 10 The Green Lantern.
The only disappointment was that no-one caught a
conger eel.
ANSWERS: 1 Lohengrin; 2 Electric guitars; 3 Infrasonic; 4 St John's, Newfoundland; 5 Bath; 6 St Bride's; 7 Ricky Ponting; 8 The
conger eel; 9 The Fleet Air Arm; 10 Happy Days
The recipes include marinated
conger eel, hare mince pies - and cow's tongue pie.
conger eel - large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food