All rounder Paul Elt enjoyed a superb day afloat on a midlands stillwater recently, where he smashed his zander PB by over 2lb with this 15lb 8oz specimen. He was fishing with his son, Jordan, and employed vertical jigging tactics in a strong westerly wind. The conditions made the… Read more
Spending time feeding your target fish before trying to catch it can be key to success with many species, and Aaron Marguet proved exactly why when he landed this 3lb 4oz roach. The Kent angler was targeting a water in his home country, and after locating the fish by a… Read more
Heavy rain may not be the nicest to fish in, but it can certainly bring big fish out to play, as Ian Green found during a session on the Trent, where he landed this 18lb 8oz barbel. The Specimen fell to a 20mm dumbbell boilie fished over mixed sized boilie… Read more
“In the excitement of landing that early 2lb 3oz roach, I’d put my polaroids on the floor. Picking them up and putting them on, I was excited to see what I initially thought were chub..” After recently moving to Dorset, Mark Hewett has spent a fantastic few weeks exploring the… Read more
There are few barbel fisheries with a reputation as impressive as Gunthorpe on the River Trent, where PBs are shattered every year. That was the case for Nottinghamshire angler James O’Reilly, who’s just caught this superb 17lb 7oz fish from the venue. After balling in some pellets, he fished a… Read more
Over the last few weeks Simon Ashton has enjoyed some superb, big perch action, landing a string of fish over the 4lb mark, topped by this 4lb 8oz UK personal best. He’d seen fish smashing fry in the margins and suspected perch were the culprits and started out by fishing… Read more
