This season, two-time Drennan Cup winner Simon Daley set out to catch a truly big barbel from three different rivers and has just completed the challenge in style with this 16lb 9oz fish. Having already landed fish of 18lb 11oz from the Hampshire Avon and 17lb 9oz from the River… Read more
Although reservoirs have produced the largest perch in the UK this season, for Adam Jones, the pursuit of a large river fish is the ultimate goal. On a recent session to the Thames, he caught just such a fish when he slipped the net under this specimen of 4lb 8oz…. Read more
As the seasons turn, Adam Riches often spends time targeting predators before the rivers have had a good flush through, and lately he’s been targeting pike on a Midlands venue. Fishing a legered smelt to a drop off around 60 yards out, he’d landed a few smaller fish early in… Read more
Paul Houghton has just joined a small but elite list of anglers to have landed a 4lb roach after catching this specimen of 4lb 1oz. It was tempted from a southern stillwater, which, interestingly, was not Linear Fisheries – the venue that produced a 4lb 3oz record-equalling redfin to Dai… Read more
After landing an 18lb 1oz Hampshire Avon barbel earlier this autumn, Nigel Kennard turned his attention to the Dorset Stour, where a sixteen-pounder was his aim. He’s just smashed that target, not once, but twice, in a single session! Fishing a stretch a short distance from his house, where he’s… Read more
Whilst trotted maggots are the default for many grayling anglers, there are other baits that can tempt the species, as David Pearson proved when he caught this fish of 3lb 2oz on bread! The specimen was landed during his first trip to Scotland this year, in which suddenly dropping temperatures… Read more
