“My roach fishing on the Hampshire Avon has been phenomenal this winter but my latest session has probably been the best yet” “On reaching the river I fed an area of slack water on my nearside bank with liquidised bread, crushed hemp and fine gravel mixed in to get the… Read more

“I instantly ran to the rod and with a sweeping strike I connected with a thumping, headshaking fish..” “I’d just set up in a swim on a Southern gravel pit when I was called over by another angler who asked me to take pictures of some big roach he’d just… Read more

“My heart started thumping when I weighed her..” “The Hampshire Avon has been flooded for the past month so my brother Paul and I fished the slower-paced mill stream next to it, thinking the roach may have pushed in there after the high water. I started on the float with red… Read more

“the bobbin on the same rod danced again..” “My mate messaged me a couple of weeks ago to say that he had a 2.13 roach from a southern pit which for the past 6 years I have had a ticket for, but not fished. I am usually in full predator… Read more

“When this giant roach surfaced I just couldn’t believe my eyes..” “I’ve been waiting for the right conditions to target the big roach at Linear fisheries and with a big low pressure system arriving after a prolonged high, I knew that the time at come to finally have a go…. Read more

“I’ve only been specimen fishing for a couple of years after getting into it through a good friend, and I’ve slowly been working on upping my PBs for various species” One of the targets I set myself for the winter was to catch a big roach. I’d previously caught them… Read more