Perfection in a perch

Perch hunter Ken Brown used livebaits to good effect on a Hertfordshire water to tempt this 4lb 7oz beauty to the net.

After noticing a number of perch and pike chasing fry in front of him, the 56-year-old cast out a small roach in hope of a bite and he didn’t have to wait long to get one! 

He told Angling Times: “I caught a couple of small perch at the beginning, then all of a sudden the big one struck.

“I knew it was a much bigger perch by the classic head shakes felt on the end of the rod.”

Ken’s stripey fell to a roach livebait fished on a mini sunken polyball rig incorporating a John Roberts boom, a 6ins trace and a size 2 Kamasan hook.