“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

“It’s not every week you say you’ve enjoyed the catch of a lifetime but it finally happened to me during my latest visit to the Hampshire Avon. “Trotting flake over a bed of liquidised bread and hemp, it wasn’t long before I had my first roach of just over a… Read more

MATCH angler Clive Samuell couldn’t stop swearing when he first set eyes on the roach he’d spent his whole life trying to catch. On the scales the 48-year-old’s new personal best registered 3lb 4oz and was banked when he and a friend decided to have a break from match angling… Read more

DEVON-based angler Rob Taylor said ‘he didn’t want the fight to end’ when he struck into this superb 2lb 15oz roach. The 61-year-old and his mate Ed trotted red maggots on a southern-chalk stream for a big fish and weren’t left disappointed when Rob’s rod arched over half-way through the… Read more