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Carp angler breaks the British bream record with huge 22lb 9oz fish

Iain Toombs, 11 September 2009 17:41

The British bream record has been broken by big-fish specialist Mark McKenna with a stunning fish of 22lb 9oz. This beats the previous record 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 fishing for carp. ...

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Carp angler breaks the British bream record with huge 22lb 9oz fish

Iain Toombs,
11 September 2009 17:41

Brace of personal bests fall at Todber Manor

Angling Times, 24 April 2013 16:11

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 ...

17lb 4oz bream caught on float gear

Angling Times, 28 September 2012 15:55

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 ...

15lb bream caught from low-stock venue

Angling Times, 31 August 2012 09:57

Targeting a 20-acre stillwater holding only a handful of bream could seem a daunting prospect to many anglers, but not Dave Smith, who was rewarded for rising to the challenge when he slipped his net under this 15lb fish. The Gloucester-based rod made the journey to Bluebell Lakes in Northamptonshire specifically to target the big slabs in Mallard Lake, and ...

18lb 3oz day-ticket bream caught

Angling Times, 19 July 2012 14:48

This huge 18lb 3oz bream was caught by Joel Mcintyre during a 36 hour session targeting the carp in Mallard Lake on the Northamptonshire Bluebell complex. The 29-year-old Nottinghamshire-based rod baited a silt patch at 60yds with half a kilo of boilies and offered a glugged 14mm Innovate 365 hookbait over the top in conjunction with a PVA bag of ...

Giant bream on the feeder

Angling Times, 23 May 2012 08:57

Experienced all-rounder Paul Garner was finally rewarded for persevering at a tough gravel pit complex with this sensational 16lb 6oz bream, one of the largest examples of the species landed this season. The impressive fish was taken towards the end of a two-night session at the Berkshire venue, which the Redditch-based angler has been targeting for the past three years, ...

Method feeder approach results in double figure bream

Angling Times, 04 May 2012 14:22

Stuart Jessop returned to a venue that he hadn’t fished for five years and smashed his bream personal best with this impressive 14lb 10oz specimen. His only bite of a session at a local Lincolnshire stillwater came after he laid a bed of pellets at 60 yards range and then put his faith in a Method feeder approach. Scolded pellets ...

Bream record broken

Angling Times, 20 April 2012 11:48

The British bream record has been beaten following the capture of a fish weighing in at a colossal 23lb. It was banked from the rock-hard Cambridgeshire stillwater Ferry Lagoon by a carp angler, and is the same fish which was caught at 22lb 9oz in September 2009 by another carper, Mark McKenna, and also by James Rust at 19lb 10oz ...

20lb 2oz bream sets new British record for the species

Angling Times, 27 May 2011 12:00

The official British bream record has been broken by a gigantic specimen weighing 20lb 2oz. Caught from a well-known 50-acre southern gravel pit, the immense fish was landed by specimen angler Simon Lavin during a week-long session targeting the species. The fish breaks the current official best for the species by 8oz, with Simon, who also once held the grass carp ...

Two anglers share 17 double-figure bream in phenomenal haul

Angling Times, 13 May 2011 14:30

A massive haul of no fewer than 17 double-figure bream to a best of just under 16lb has been landed by two of the country’s top specimen anglers. The fish, including individual specimens of 15lb 15oz and 15lb 8oz, were taken by well-known big-fish experts Adrian Eves and Ted Bryan, who were fishing two separate venues in Berkshire and Kent. ...

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