When the rivers are bursting their banks, few anglers would think to target perch, especially not on lures, but Robert Onicala proved the tactic’s versatility with this 4lb 10oz specimen. The 33-year-old Bedford angler was targeting spots new to him on the Great Ouse. He found some slack water and… Read more

“It wasn’t until the fish was right under my feed that this was confirmed – it was a perch, and a huge one at that..” Specimen fishing does require a considerable amount of hard work, and quite often time. This could be time spent fishing a venue, simply traveling back… Read more

Simon Ashton has landed a perch that’ll ‘live with him until he dies’, after slipping the net under this 5lb 4oz specimen. He’s enjoyed a superb run of form with the species on a northern syndicate water, where he’d landed a PB of 4lb 8oz previously. Simon was happy enough… Read more

One of the all-time great hauls of river perch has just been taken, after John Power landed fish of 4lb 8oz, 4lb 1oz, 4lb, eight three-pounders and 10 ‘twos’ in a wild morning’s fishing. The Yorkshire angler was fishing a river in his home county which he found fining down… Read more

From vast wild lakes to tiny man-made fisheries, big perch pop-up in every kind of water imaginable, as Gary Spillard proved with this 5lb 5oz beast from a holiday resort! Gary was fishing at Devon’s Clawford Lakes Resort and Spa on Lodge Lake when he landed the massive fish. He… Read more

Over the last few weeks Simon Ashton has enjoyed some superb, big perch action, landing a string of fish over the 4lb mark, topped by this 4lb 8oz UK personal best. He’d seen fish smashing fry in the margins and suspected perch were the culprits and started out by fishing… Read more