New personal best brownie.....on a borrowed rod!

New Milton, Hampshire angler Gareth Beech had to abandon a planned river fishing trip because he missed the high tide.

Instead he went along to Chalk Springs trout fishery, in West Sussex, borrowed a rod and net and caught a personal best 9lb 6oz brown trout!

Gareth fished a Montana nymph on a 7lb leader and a slow sink line.