Perseverance certainly paid off for Paul Douglas when he slipped his net under a brace of huge bream weighing just short of 30lb. Following a succession of bite-less visits to a local stillwater, the tackle shop manager from Northampton didn’t let his spirits dropped, and on his next visit was rewarded with two fish weighing 14lb 10oz apiece, both of ...
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- 06 June 2013
THE biggest bream of the year has been caught by Darryn Stolworthy at a new personal best weight of 17lb 7oz. The Norfolk-based specimen hunter has been focusing his attentions on an ultra-tough local gravel pit that is home to only a handful of large slabs and up until this point hadn’t even seen a sign of his target species. ...
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- 31 May 2013
The Trent & Mersey Canal through Burton-on-Trent is an excellent but under-rated stretch of waterway containing a good mix of species, including a number of river fish, such as chub, due to the Trent entrance near Wychnor further south. The stretch is the chosen venue for the Division One National Championships this year, proving its consistency and the quality of ...
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- 23 May 2013
A 24-hour session at the prolific Todber Manor Fisheries proved eventful for Joe Miller as he banked a brace of personal bests. The venue regular decided to visit Paddock Lake at the Dorset complex and legered a plastic corn hookbait alongside small solid bags of pellet. A pb slab of 10lb 8oz was the first specimen to the grace the ...
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- 24 April 2013
Big bags of silverfish have been dominating at Yorkshire’s None-Go-Bye-Farm and Darren Briggs needed an impressive 37lb 1oz of roach to top the field in a recent match. The Baildon-based rod drew peg 6 on the Bottom Lake and used caster on the long pole line from peg 6 to net fish to 1lb at regular intervals. Days later it ...
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- 04 April 2013
Carp don’t always have to be the primary target if you want to frame in a commercial fishery match as Paul Chapman proved when he banked this 50lb 4oz net of bream during the latest contest at Shiplate Farm. The venue regular drew peg 5 on the Main Lake at the Somerset complex and used pole and maggot at 13m ...
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- 07 March 2013
The consistently mild temperatures have seen the bream switch on at Bury Hill Fisheries and Andy Ryan needed 80lb 8oz of them to top the pile in the latest event. After drawing peg 11 on the Old Lake at the Surrey complex, the venue regular started on the feeder with pellet but a switch to the pole saw his catch ...
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- 07 January 2013
LEE MCMANUS ended a frustrating campaign - that had resulted in just two bites in over 720 hours of fishing - with this impressive 16lb 10oz personal best bream. Measuring a mile in length and half a mile wide, Swithland Reservoir in Leicestershire is a notoriously hard water at the best of times - but has proven to be even ...
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- 07 December 2012
A relentless pre-baiting campaign finally paid off for Dave Harman this week when he slipped his net under this fine 16lb 11oz bream from a rock-hard Lea Valley pit. The former Drennan Cup winner took the fish alongside six other double-figure specimens to 13lb 8oz during a two-night trip to Langridge Lake on the Essex and Herts border. The ‘classic’ ...
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- 17 October 2012
Is this a picture of the biggest bream ever landed on a float fishing set-up? That’s the question being asked this week after Grant Dunn slipped his net under a massive 17lb 4oz specimen from a crystal-clear gravel pit in Derbyshire. It’s only the second bream that he has ever caught from the ultra-tough stillwater in more than 20 years ...
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- 28 September 2012
