“It felt like a small pike and was cursing his luck when a huge mouth and spiky dorsal broke surface” A trip to his local river paid off in fine style for Loughborough angler Leo Heathcote, who landed a sensational pair of perch, going 4lb 14oz and 4lb 13oz. After… Read more

“I hooked a trout on a pin tail lure and could see on the sonar that the perch were following it” Having purchased a bow mount motor, to use with the reservoirs boats and the intention of targeting some reservoir perch, Oxfordshire angler Paul Scowen’s investment was rewarded with a… Read more

“Sampling some of the finest sport our reservoirs have to offer” We’re at the time of the year now where there’s a noticeable increase in anglers targeting perch. With that, a load more captures get reported and that’s no different to this week however lure fanatic Sam Edmonds’ 4lb 8oz… Read more

Big still waters can certainly throw up some fantastic perch fishing at this time of year, as all-rounder Karl Bird discovered on a trip to Huntingdon’s Grafham Water.. He landed five perch, the biggest this 4lb 8oz fish, which he backed up with fish of 4lb 6oz, 4lb 5oz, plus… Read more

Perch expert Matt Atkins has banked yet another monstrous stripy, this time a 5lb 4oz fish from a gravel pit.. It’s his second over 5lb this year, with his first coming from the Thames. Matt used a new approach, using a float-fished dead perch on a paternoster that he twitched… Read more

“with this setup, you don’t miss many bites.” Casting at range on a huge 170-acre stillwater resulted in this fantastic 4lb 8oz perch for Leicester specialist angler, Lee McManus. It was just his second perch session of the year, and on his first he landed a fish of 4lb 7oz,… Read more