Once verified, Mark McKenna will become the new British record bream holder with his 22lb 9oz slab

British bream record broken at 22lb 9oz

By Angling Times

Fish Catches

11 September 2009 17:41

The British bream record has been well and truly broken by Mark McKenna with a stunning fish of 22lb 9oz. This beats the previous best bream weight by a huge leap of 2lb 15oz.

He caught the massive bream - which Mark and fishery bailiffs think is exactly the same fish as the previous record - from Ferry Lagoon in Cambridgeshire while fishign for carp.

Captor Mark, who comes from Herefield, Middlesex and owns Baitcraft, took the specimen on one of his own T1 pop-up boilies intended for carp.

The fish was weighed on Mark's set of Fox Digital scales and weighed again upon the bailiff's scales to double check its huge bulk.

Full details of the capture can be found in Angling Times and for an in-depth on-the-bank video interview with Mark McKenna, click HERE.