39lb 2oz mirror from southern gravel pit

A rain-lashed overnighter gave Richard Effamy this 39lb 2oz mirror.

The 29-year-old plastering contractor flicked his baits just 20 yards under a willow tree at a southern gravel pit to tempt the specimen.

The West Sussex angler said: “It was a very wet 12-hour overnighter. I got absolutely soaked!”

Richard fed about half a kilo of crumbed and chopped Sticky Krill boilies and fished a matching hookbait on a multi rig made with 25lb Atomic Jel-E-Wyre and a size 6 Gardner Chod hook.

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