Giant carp in Manchester Canal

Friday 5th December 2025


https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/monster-lurking-greater-

i have always been interested in the stories of giant carp since I read Gerald Summers’ book The Lure of a Falcon as a boy. This tells the story of his discovery of an enormous dead carp floating in a pond near his school when he was a child. This fish that has been reported from a canal in the north of England does appear to be truly massive. Another one for the CFZ big fish project.

Jonathan Downes
Cryptozoologist, naturalist, musician, singer, composer, poet, novelist and Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1992. Jon was born in Portsmouth in 1959 and spent his infancy in Nigeria and his childhood in Hong Kong. His wife Corinna died of cancer in 2020, leaving him with two stepdaughters and an eleven year old granddaughter called Evelyn.