Les Graviers' most famous resident, The Scar Fish, comes to the bank.


The world’s biggest carp, the Scar Fish from France’s Les Graviers, has been banked, but at a weight 7lb lighter than its record-breaking biggest.

Caught by Northampton angler Mark Ryder, the mighty fish still sent the scales hurtling round to 92lb, a weight that keeps it in the top three heaviest known carp on the planet.

Mark, who is a bailiff at Daventry’s Drayton reservoir, still very nearly made the history books though, after hooking into another fish of an estimated 80lb – a specimen if landed that would have seen him take the world's heaviest ever brace of carp.

"I'd had it on for 35 minutes or so but it managed to cut my line on a gravel bar,” said Mark. “It would have been a world record brace if I'd landed it."

The latest capture of the Scar fish sees Mark become one of a very lucky band of anglers to have caught carp over the 90lb barrier.

Mark managed to temped the legendary specimen, and several other carp, including a 57lb 4oz fish, using Baitcraft T1 boilies fished on a blowback rig at over 100 yards range. The massive fish was beaten with a size 6 Nash Fang Twister hook to a Nash Missing Link trace and 24lb mainline.


World Heaviest Carp

The Scar Fish, Les Graviers, France
Back in 2010 the Scar set the carp world buzzing after its capture by Ambrose Smith at a world record breaking 99lb – a weight achieved while the fish was spawn bound.