On a trip to the River Lea at King’s Weir, Neale Woodward spent two hours baiting a swim with maggots before catching this 7lb 11oz PB chub prior to the river season ending. It fell to two red maggots on a size 20 hook, which he trotted through the swim…. Read more
Having spent two nights without a bite, Alan Taylor’s efforts paid off in style when he landed this 19lb barbel mid March. Alan was fishing on the River Trent at Bob’s Island, where he sat it out in the popular point swim. Despite cold nights, Alan persevered with the fishing,… Read more
It’s been a great season for the pike anglers of Scotland, with numerous good fish reported from the nation’s wild waters this winter. Cammy Mackenzie is the latest to get in on the action, landing this fish of 32lb 5oz. It picked up his herring deadbait just as he was… Read more
The Rivers of Essex aren’t often in the headlines for big fish, but James Willsmer changed that recently when managed this chub of 7lb 8oz from a venue near his home in Chelmsford prior to the close season. The river he fishing is one that was historically known for good… Read more
Just two minutes after moving his smelt hookbait next to a tree in the margins, Alix Hepworth was rewarded with this 31lb 8oz PB pike. He was fishing a 100-acre midlands stillwater (a non-trout water) and, on the bright and calm day, felt he was looking at a blank. But… Read more
Phil White’s river campaign had, in his own words, been a poor one, until his tip pulled around one evening session at the end of the season and he landed this barbel of 21lb 5oz. It’s the second biggest ever reported and would have been a new British Record if… Read more
