Big still waters can certainly throw up some fantastic perch fishing at this time of year, as all-rounder Karl Bird discovered on a trip to Huntingdon’s Grafham Water.. He landed five perch, the biggest this 4lb 8oz fish, which he backed up with fish of 4lb 6oz, 4lb 5oz, plus… Read more

Perch expert Matt Atkins has banked yet another monstrous stripy, this time a 5lb 4oz fish from a gravel pit.. It’s his second over 5lb this year, with his first coming from the Thames. Matt used a new approach, using a float-fished dead perch on a paternoster that he twitched… Read more

“with this setup, you don’t miss many bites.” Casting at range on a huge 170-acre stillwater resulted in this fantastic 4lb 8oz perch for Leicester specialist angler, Lee McManus. It was just his second perch session of the year, and on his first he landed a fish of 4lb 7oz,… Read more

“I used two rods – one with legered king prawn” Paul Bailey recently went on a short, early morning session on a local canal where he managed this lovely 4lb 12oz perch. He told us “I was in two minds whether or not to give it a miss and return… Read more

“On just his second cast the line tightened, and all hell broke loose” You’d probably struggle to find a finer example of a perch than this 4lb 11oz beast landed by Berkshire lure fishing fanatic, Adam Jones. Staying in a hotel whilst heading north on a work trip, Adam decided… Read more

“First ‘five’ from running water” Big perch expert, Matt Atkins, has landed the largest reported stripy of the season, in the shape of this 5lb 1oz warrior. Matt, who has now landed four perch over 5lb and one six-pounder, was targeting the mighty River Thames, fishing from a boat he… Read more