“Heber was shaking like a leaf after slipping the net under the fish of a lifetime”

It’s hard to top a 2lb 12oz River Itchen roach, but Portsmouth angler Heber Crawford has done just that with this 3lb 2oz corker.

He landed the big ‘two’ a few weeks back, but recently returned for a session at first light and employed the same tactics – trotted maggot – to tempt a fish over the immense three-pound barrier.