Joe Royffe had a session to remember on a large Lea Valley gravel pit, where he broke his personal best bream not once, but three times, topped by a fish of 15lb 10oz.

Joe Royffe had a session to remember on a large Lea Valley gravel pit, where he broke his personal best bream not once, but three times, topped by a fish of 15lb 10oz.

Targeting the slope of a gravel plateaux, Joe introduced a ‘carpet-type’ feed consisting of four pints of dead maggots, vitalin, brown crumb, and a mixture of pellets.

“I decided to bait quite sparingly without any large food items in the hope of picking off fish from a passing shoal, whilst hopefully holding them in the area for long enough to keep them grubbing around” Joe explained.

Three hair rigged artificial maggots fished helicopter style was the winning hookbait.