Steve Hemingray, caught this impressive mixed bag on the slider while practising for the Sensas Challenge Final in Chartres, France. 

This huge annual competition saw 64 teams of four involved and Steve’s Kamasan Starlets squad (Mark Downes, Sean Ashby, Darran Bickerton and Steve) managed to finish a very creditable 5th overall. That was the best result out of all the non-French teams and just pipped Drennan Barnsley Blacks by half a point!

“These fish were caught on the Thursday practice day on a lake about 4m deep, fishing a 10g slider around 30m out,” explained the former European Champion.

“I used a 14ft Acolyte Plus rod, 4lb Specimen Plus main line and 0.10mm Double Strength hooklength to a size 16 Kamasan B560 hook. All the fish came to bunches of bloodworm and red maggots or small redworms.”