Over recent years, Leicestershire angler Jarrad Smith has spent a lot of time on a challenging stretch of the middle Trent, but his efforts have just been rewarded in spectacular style with this 19lb 8oz barbel. A river in full flood isn’t what many predator anglers want to see, but… Read more
This season, the Great Ouse has gone up and down so many times Vito has lost count, but he recently managed two catches, just a few days apart. He told us “The first was from a stretch that some anglers wonder why I bother with, where I’m drawn to a… Read more
Over recent years, Leicestershire angler Jarrad Smith has spent a lot of time on a challenging stretch of the middle Trent, but his efforts have just been rewarded in spectacular style with this 19lb 8oz barbel. Faced with what he describes as ‘absolutely perfect’ conditions, with mild weather and floodwater… Read more
Over recent years, Leicestershire angler Jarrad Smith has spent a lot of time on a challenging stretch of the middle Trent, but his efforts have just been rewarded in spectacular style with this 19lb 8oz barbel. Faced with what he describes as ‘absolutely perfect’ conditions, with mild weather and floodwater… Read more
When Iain Mitchell set out to catch his first chub, any decent fish would have left him going home a happy man. So, you can imagine his shock when he landed this fish of 7lb 8oz as his very first of the species! The trip was his first on a… Read more
Generally, the big-pike scene on trout waters is dominated by fish from Chew Valley Lake, but Rutland Water also holds a few specimens, as Dan Brackley found when he landed this fish of 30lb exactly alongside another of 29lb 12oz. Fishing the Lure Anglers Society Predator Cup match, Dan set… Read more
