A session on a flooded River Lea resulted in this superb 18lb 4oz barbel for in-form angler Dave Robinson. The Suffolk rod hit the river after heavy rain and employed his tried and trusted approach of roving with big cubes of luncheon meat, fished on 15lb fluorocarbon hooklinks and size… Read more
Paul Parish’s name has been etched into angling’s history books after he landed one of the biggest-ever roach in British waters, weighing a sublime 4lb 2oz. The Buckinghamshire angler caught the fish from Brasenose 1 at Oxford’s Linear Fisheries – one of the country’s most popular venues. Whilst It’s best… Read more
Not long ago, barbel fanatic George Cornwell banked a new barbel PB at 15lb 7oz from the Hampshire Avon. Well, he’s gone and smashed that fish out the park with this 17lb 2oz beauty. It was caught from the same venue and fell to a paste-wrapped boilie fished alongside a… Read more
“It wasn’t until the fish was right under my feed that this was confirmed – it was a perch, and a huge one at that..” Specimen fishing does require a considerable amount of hard work, and quite often time. This could be time spent fishing a venue, simply traveling back… Read more
For many of us, going on a ‘social’ involves catching very little – instead the focus is on chilling out with friends. But.. ..on a trip to an East Anglia gravel pit, James Champkin managed to not only catch up with a couple of old mates, but also take a… Read more
On his first solo boat trip, Calogero Iacono was rewarded with this 16lb zander. He was targeting a midlands river, and the main priority of the trip was to have a play with his new electronics. After spending two hours driving up and down, watching the screen and setting it… Read more
