Specimen ace Alan Stagg was left exhausted on a recent session while waiting for his target species to get on the feed, after bagging over 150lbs worth of tench in just a few hours. Looking to land the big rudd of Surrey’s Frensham Great Pond, the Gardner-backed rod passed the time before the golden specimens got their heads down by ...
Big fish man Simon Lavin continued his excellent run of form with a superb brace of double-figure tench, topped by an 11lb 6oz specimen. The Sunbury-on-Thames based angler, who hit the headlines earlier this year with a 20lb 2oz British record bream, took the fish from a southern stillwater during a 45-hour session. Both the ‘eleven’ and the accompanying 10lb ...
Dai Gribble is a bit of an expert at catching big stillwater tench. Many years targeting this beautiful species has helped him hone his skills, rigs, baits and techniques making him one of the most successful tench anglers in Britain. Mark Parker, of Improve Your Coarse Fishing magazine, met up with Korum-sponsored Dai on the banks of Linear Fisheries in ...
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- 23 June 2011
Fenland anglers maintaining the tradition of the closed season enjoyed a bumper opening day of the season on the March end of the Twenty Foot Drain at Shepperson’s Bridge in Cambridgeshire. One angler bagged a net of tench and bream on the pole with maggot and caster weighing over 130lb, while close by another rod bagged 60lb of skimmers and ...
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- 21 June 2011
Jamie Cartwright continued his amazing year by taking another big hit of tench this week, topped by a new personal best. The Northampton Specimen Group member took eight fish during a short trip to the Bawburgh complex, including tench of 8lb 8oz, 9lb 9oz and 10lb 5oz. See next week's Angling Times, out Tuesday 28th June, for a full report and pictures of ...
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- 21 June 2011
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- 17 June 2011
Following a short break from angling, Alan Stagg got right back into the swing of things with a cracking four-fish catch, topped by this 9lb 10oz tench. The Basingstoke rod, who finished runner-up in this year's Drennan Cup competition, spent 24 hours at a 20-acre Oxfordshire pit, where he used maggot feeder tactics to take his haul. Full story in next week's AT.
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- 15 June 2011
More news on the season’s biggest tench have emerged – with the official weight of the specimen recorded at a massive 13lb 10oz. The story of the massive fish broke yesterday on www.gofishing.co.uk but details remained unconfirmed. However, further investigation has revealed the fish now stands as the best 2011 – beating Chris Muir’s 13lb 4oz specimen that was caught ...
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- 15 June 2011
Rumours are circulating that the biggest tench of 2011 has been taken. News of the fish, believed to be close to a staggering 14lb, broke in the last hour following a tip-off to the Angling Times newsdesk. It’s believed the fish was caught from a Sussex day-ticket complex – but exact details have yet to be confirmed. It’s been a ...
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- 14 June 2011
With the new river season only a matter of hours away, it seems only fitting that this week's live tackle test should be devoted to a classic design of rod. Welcome Frenzee's 13ft Precision Match rod. But before you watch the video below and see the detail of carbon, cork and rings, we ought to pay tribute to a generic ...
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- 13 June 2011
