The fly is becoming an increasingly popular tactic for targeting pike, and it’s easy to see why when specimens like this 31lb 6oz fish are falling to the tactic! It was caught by Alex Mason from Blagdon Lake in bright and calm conditions. Alex used a relatively small fly, around… Read more
Leicestershire angler Lee Snow’s spring bream campaign has just gone up a notch, after he landed this superb specimen of 19lb 1oz. It follows shorty on from his capture of a 17lb 3oz fish, not to mention the 18lb 11oz slab landed by his 15-year-old son, Alfie, a few weeks… Read more
Anyone that’s targeted big bream knows that catching one can be a test of patience, and that’s exactly what Stephen Gibbons endured in the run up to catching this 17lb 3oz specimen. The Norfolk angler has spent the last 18 months fishing a low stock Nottinghamshire gravel pit, where there… Read more
Former Drennan Cup winner Richard Wilby has just landed what he reckons to be the best fish he’s ever caught, after slipping the net under this sublime 3lb 11oz roach. Fishing a midlands stillwater, Norfolk-based Richard presented a grain of corn beneath a light waggler at close range to tempt… Read more
On a trip to a large southern pit, Leicester angler Lee Snow landed his fifth different bream over 17lb when he slipped this specimen of 17lb 3oz into the net. He targeted the side of a bar 90 yards out where he found a silty area in 15ft of water…. Read more
After a run of blanks in search of rudd, Aaron Marguet managed to find a few large fish holding up by some reeds on a southern stillwater.. Often, he targets them with banded pellets or small boilies, but given his lack of success lately, he decided to try corn, to… Read more
