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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Lee Parker

Experience: I caught the ‘world’s biggest goldfish’

A man standing up to his chest in water holding an enormous goldfish
‘My hands shook as I weighed it’: Lee Parker with his prize catch. Photograph: courtesy of Lee Parker

I won my first goldfish at a fair. I was young and I can’t remember what I had to do to win it or what I called it, but I spent hours watching him swim around the little plastic tank in my room. From then on, I was hooked on fish.

When I turned eight, my dad would take me float fishing in the canal near where we lived in Banbury, Oxfordshire. I was ecstatic if I caught anything; I’d run in circles with excitement and take pictures with my Polaroid camera.

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