John Keeley showed why the tidal River Trent continues to be a worthy venue for huge predators when he slipped the net under a 16lb 3oz specimen. Targeting an area away from the crowds, the Wakefield angler waited for almost seven hours before he got the take he was after… Read more
Canal predators don’t come much bigger than this 16lb giant zander caught by Jacob Wise. The 38-year-old, electronics engineer, caught the monster specimen from the South-West’s Gloucester Sharpness Canal where he tempted it using a sprat deadbait fished on a scaled down wire trace mounted on a simple running leger… Read more
Another trout and it would have been a record” those are the words of pike angler Peter Coxhead following the capture of a record shaking 44lb specimen. This huge predator was boated at the end of a three-day session on renowned pike fishing water Chew Valley Reservoir. The Portsmouth-based angler… Read more
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A five-year campaign to catch one of the UK’s biggest pike finally ended in success for Chris Darke when he slipped the net under a 41lb 12oz specimen. The giant predator was taken on a free-lined, dead ide hookbait from renowned Northern pike fishing venue, Wykeham Lakes in North Yorkshire…. Read more
Not deterred by rumours that all the big barbel had been predated in the stretch, the London based angler Kenny Massey went on to land this impressive 15lb 9oz fish. Kenny visited a private stretch of the Oxfordshire waterway where he pre-baited several likely looking spots with broken boilies. After arriving… Read more
