{"id":1778,"date":"2026-04-22T19:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:18:12","slug":"record-catches-and-a-tight-race-on-day-three-at-ibcc-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/record-catches-and-a-tight-race-on-day-three-at-ibcc-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Catches and a Tight Race on Day Three at IBCC 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The third day of competition also delivered plenty of outstanding moments for the IBCC 2026 field. Early in the morning, news arrived from Si\u00f3fok that the biggest fish of the competition so far had been caught: <strong>Team Nikl &amp; Carp R Us &#8211; UB<\/strong> landed a <strong>32.47 kg common carp<\/strong>, which currently puts them in the lead in the <strong>Biggest Common Carp<\/strong> category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The morning brought more major developments, as a new leader also emerged in the mirror carp category. Fishing at <strong>Gumir\u00e1dli Strand in Balatonakarattya<\/strong>, <strong>Carp Brothers Hunters<\/strong> caught a <strong>26.30 kg mirror carp<\/strong> on <strong>peg 268<\/strong>, taking over the lead in the <strong>Biggest Mirror Carp<\/strong> category. This catch, made in the <strong>K-FISH sector<\/strong>, is further proof that at this competition, a breakthrough can come at any moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_2016c-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_2016c-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_2016c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_2016c-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_2016c-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_2016c.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, the weather posed a serious challenge for the field. For much of the day, conditions remained overcast, and from the afternoon onward, <strong>first- or second-degree storm warnings<\/strong> were in effect almost continuously around Lake Balaton. Teams therefore had to react not only to fish movement and tactical demands, but also to the rapidly changing conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the evening of the third day, the overall standings were also extremely close. In first place was <strong>Tropic RidgeMonkey Team Cz<\/strong> with a total catch of <strong>208.45 kg<\/strong>, fishing at <strong>Badacsonyt\u00f6rdemic Beach<\/strong> in the <strong>Carp\u2019R\u2019Us sector<\/strong>. They were followed by <strong>Carpsonbaits<\/strong> with <strong>196.25 kg<\/strong> from <strong>Keszthely<\/strong>, in the <strong>MIVARDI sector<\/strong>, while <strong>Balaton Carp<\/strong> held third place with <strong>190.13 kg<\/strong> from <strong>\u00c1brah\u00e1mhegy<\/strong>, also in the <strong>Carp\u2019R\u2019Us sector<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of day three, it was clear that the IBCC 2026 field remains exceptionally strong, and the gaps are still far from impossible to close. New leaders have emerged in the big fish categories, the top of the overall leaderboard is becoming more and more exciting, and the weather continues to put every team to the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third day of competition also delivered plenty of outstanding moments for the IBCC 2026 field. Early in the morning, news arrived from Si\u00f3fok that the biggest fish of the competition so far had been caught: Team Nikl &amp; Carp R Us &#8211; UB landed a 32.47 kg common carp, which currently puts them in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishingandhuntingtv.com\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}