POWERFUL PB PERCH
WHEN Paul Topley’s partner, Amber, said she fancied a few days away, he persuaded her to accompany him to Clawford Lakes in Devon.
There, Paul tried the float, jig and spinner before targeting an overhanging bush on the island behind their lodge with a roach livebait, feeding maggots, chopped worms and prawns in a mixture of powdered krill and molehill soil.
Very soon he connected with a powerful fish and, when it surfaced, he instantly knew it was the one he was after.
Following a couple of heart-pounding moments, a 5lb 2oz perch lay in the net.
BIG DACE BOOKENDS A MEMORABLE CAMPAIGN
SURREY angler Duncan Hayward has enjoyed a fish-filled season that ended on a high after slipping the net under this 1lb 1oz dace.
It was caught from a Thames tributary on a maggot hookbait below an open-end feeder.
He’d been pestered by tiny roach before he had a more positive bite. Striking, he saw a big flash of silver but, after netting the fish in the dark, he wasn’t sure what it was – until he peered into the mesh at this huge dace!
It’s a new PB for the species and, in Duncan’s words, ‘caps a season I’ll never top’.
COLNE CRACKER TO END THE SEASON
AFTER a few twitches on the tip, only to reel in and realise a chub had spat out his cheesepaste hookbait, Buckinghamshire angler Jonathan Pomroy switched to a lighter lead and was rewarded with this 7lb 10oz beauty. He was fishing on Hertfordshire’s River Colne, and had settled
