Most anglers opt for the Method feeder approach for specimen crucian carp these days, but the float can still produce big fish, as Martyn Skoyles showed with this superb 4lb 2oz specimen. He caught the fish from Cherry Lakes in the Cotswolds, from where he’d seen pictures of a few… Read more
Matthew Clayton got off to a flying start on a recent tench session where he landing this stunning 11lb 15oz specimen. Targeting a midlands pit, Matthew found a slight plateau at around 80 yards with a light bed of weed so opted for a worm kebab rig with scalded pellets… Read more
Tench are famed for being a morning-feeding fish, and James Crosby showed exactly why when he had no fewer than 16 takes, capped by this specimen of 11lb 1oz. James, who caught the current British Record barbel last winter, was fishing a Kent stillwater where he targeted the near… Read more
Simon Hollinshead decided to take a feeder rod down to a Cambridgeshire pit that he’d fished for pike over the winter, to see what else was in there. To his surprise, he caught several nice rudd to just under the 2lb mark, and having never caught a two-pounder, decided to… Read more
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
