Many years ago I lost an eel that would have beaten the British record when it was 8lb something from huntsteet lake near Bristol I know it was bigger because the record was stuffed and on display in the local tackle shop, the one I lost I was spinning for pike at night in a local quarry and I stopped retrieving for a minute to wipe the rain off my face and as the spinner went to the bottom the rod banged out from under my arm and I had what I thought was a big pike on when it came over the draw cord into the net the treble caught in the mesh and the ell just reversed out still have the pictur