Shortly after landing a 4lb 9oz perch, Finn Lewis got back on the predator trail, this time targeting pike on a large Cambridgeshire pit. Arriving late at night with some fresh herrings, Finn targeted an underwater feature that’s produced fish for him previously. With temperatures plummeting below freezing, Finn wasn’t… Read more

The big pike landscape is dominated by reservoir fish these days, but the waters of Ireland still hold some monsters, as Geoff Cowan proved when he landed this leviathan of 42lb 6oz. It’s just 6oz off the Irish record and obliterates Geoff’s previous 30lb 5oz PB, a fish he never… Read more

The Norfolk Broads system is one of the UK’s most famous waterways for pike, and Robbie Northman showed just why with this 30lb 4oz beast, which he caught on the fly! He’s had his sights on a fly-caught river ‘thirty’ this winter and had come close on a recent trip… Read more

The rivers of southern England have been in great pike form so far this season, but Gary Thompson has just landed a fish that tops all the fish reported. Whilst fishing the Dorset Stour, the 44-year-old Bournemouth rod landed this huge 32lb 4oz specimen, a fish he describes as his… Read more

Tony Dunne has already had a season to remember on the waters of Ireland, having landed nine fish over 20lb topped by this 32lb 10oz specimen.   The biggest of the fish he’d landed prior to the ‘thirty’ weighed 29lb 10oz and was a PB at the time, with all… Read more

After weeks of trying to catch a pike from a difficult Scottish trout water, Steven Paterson’s efforts were rewarded when he landed this fish of 30lb 8oz. He’s been fishing the venue twice a week since it opened to predator anglers in October, with this fish believed to be the… Read more