“A 30-minute battle in biting winds followed, before he slipped the net under what he describes as the fish of a lifetime” The River Trent has been in blistering form all season, and it certainly showed no signs of slowing up for Aydon Marshall, who landed this 19lb 6oz barbel… Read more
“After hearing about some big perch on a small pleasure fishing lake in the Wirral, Pete Tankard set about targeting its specimens” He’d been after a big perch for a few years, and with a day off work, he and his wife, Sarah, headed to the venue. Legering with… Read more
‘Initially, he suspected a small barbel had got in on the action, but as it came closer to the net, he could see it was a chub of mind-blowing size” Essex angler Paul Faint has been on a remarkable roll with big chub over the last few weeks but has… Read more
“Just weeks after James Champkin banked a 19lb 7oz barbel from the River Lea, local expert Ray Kent has topped that with a 19lb 14oz leviathan” Fishing the Kings Weir stretch, Ray, a bailiff on the venue, found the stretch in great nick after recent floods, with the river about… Read more
Roach expert, Dr Mark Everard, 2lb 12oz Roach Roach expert, Dr Mark Everard, had a great end to the river fishing season, landed this 2lb 12oz roach from a Wessex River on quiver tipped bread flake. Finding the venue with coloured water and extra pace, he chose to cast upstream… Read more
“The stretch he was fishing isn’t known for massive zander” With his usual River Severn out of sorts due to floods, Nick Duffy headed to the Warks Avon in search of zander and landed this 15lb 14oz specimen. It’s his first double-figure zander, and it’s safe to say he… Read more
