An elated Shane Doherty has sent in this picture of his first ever barbel from the River Tees, and weighing in at 11lb 3oz it’s an impressive fish!

“My ultimate goal was a Tees barbel, so to get a double-figure fish is my biggest angling achievment!” he explains.

Shane caught the specimen on a 12mm halibut pellet wrapped with his wife’s special home made halibut paste on a size 14 Drennan Specimen micro barbed hook.