It’s not taken long for King’s Weir fishery on the River Lea to rediscover last season’s form, after Gary Newland landed this 18lb 2oz barbel. With warm weather and heavy rain falling, he knew a big fish was on the cards. After heading to the weirpool and introducing a large… Read more
Leicester angler Lee McManus has continued his blistering start to the season with this 17lb 6oz bream. He had the fish from a weedy midlands stillwater and noted it’s huge frame, however as it was a female, it was well down in weight after spawning. A corn and caster hookbait… Read more
Shortly after landing his biggest-ever tench of 11lb 2oz, James Champkin returned to the Cotswold pit and banked this fish of 11lb 15oz. With the lake deep and the weather cool this spring, he was confident the fish hadn’t spawned yet, and was certainly proven right. The Milton Keynes angler… Read more
Whilst there have been plenty of smaller barbel reported so far this season, there haven’t been that many specimens reported yet. However, that changed when John Alexander caught this fish of 17lb exactly from a southern river. The fish fell to a Sticky Krill boilie which he fished alongside a… Read more
After finding a few big roach in a bay off the back of the wind, Aaron Marguet was rewarded with this specimen of 3lb 5oz, caught on the float! He was targeting a reservoir and drip fed trimmed-down boilies, which he could see the fish intercepting on the way down…. Read more
Late season is usually when the biggest chub are caught, but we’ve seen a few huge fish already reported this season. This 7lb 14oz specimen caught by Steve Tomlin is one of the latest, with the specimen coming from the Hampshire Avon’s Royalty fishery. Steve was targeting a deep hole… Read more
