The rivers of southern England have been in great pike form so far this season, but Gary Thompson has just landed a fish that tops all the fish reported. Whilst fishing the Dorset Stour, the 44-year-old Bournemouth rod landed this huge 32lb 4oz specimen, a fish he describes as his… Read more
Despite waking up feeling ‘rough as hell’ with the flu, Stephen Gibbons ventured out in temperatures of -5C and was rewarded with this stunning 3lb 2oz grayling. It was caught from a Scottish rive,r a long way from Stephen’s home in Norfolk. Having made such effort to get there, he… Read more
Over the last 20 years, Chris smith has been chasing a roach over 2lb from a small Lincolnshire river, but the closest he’d come was a fish of 1lb 10oz. That all changed on a recent trip, during which he obliterated his target with this fish of 2lb 14oz. He’d… Read more
Tony Dunne has already had a season to remember on the waters of Ireland, having landed nine fish over 20lb topped by this 32lb 10oz specimen. The biggest of the fish he’d landed prior to the ‘thirty’ weighed 29lb 10oz and was a PB at the time, with all… Read more
After producing a new British Record barbel, the River Lea at Kings Weir has continued its blistering form, this time throwing up a 19lb 8oz barbel for Nathan Buckingham. Yet another barbel over the sensational twenty-pound mark has been landed from Kings Weir Fishery on the River Lea, after Nathan… Read more
On Brett Davies’ first session to the River Thames this winter, he smashed his perch PB by 15oz with this stunning 4lb 9oz specimen. With the river pushing through, Brett methodically targeted slack water with a Ned-rigged creature bait. Four hours into the session, he made a long cast… Read more
