This 17lb 2oz bream was the biggest of a haul of big ‘slabs’ from a gravel pit in Northamptonshire.

Andrew West from Kettering also netted fish weighing 13lb 8oz, 12lb 10oz and 11lb 10oz, when he fished a hair-rigged boilie tipped with a grain of imitation corn over a bed of groundbait and corn at 75 meters.