Angling Times NetBusters : The best reader fish catches of the week 3/7/17
FISH OF THE WEEK:
Most anglers fish for barbel with pellets and boilies, but Barry Edmonds caught this stunning fish on a lure.
He and his son Sam were targeting a stretch of their local River Lea, and after spotting some barbel in a really overgrown swim, Barry rigged up an Abu Veritas 7ft spinning rod.
The fish weighed 9lb 8oz and was caught on 20lb braid attached to a swivel and then to a fluorocarbon leader, finished off with a Berkley Power Nymph rigged on a 2g size 8 jighead.
Top tip: “Have a selection of baits with you when you set out because you don’t know what the fish are going to want on the day.
Topping trent barbel:
The trent got off to s flying start,and rotherham rod Carl stansfield got among the river's seemingly endless supply of specimen barbel by banking a series of big fish,this is 13lb 12oz being the best of the lot.
Carl is backed by APG Bits and used an angering Dynamics boil on the hook. TOP TIP: "probating can be viral when fishing big rivers like the trent.It can really gives you a head start."
THE Trent got off to a flying start, and Rotherham rod Carl Stansfield got among the river’s seemingly endless supply of specimen barbel by banking a series of big fish, this
13lb 12oz beauty being the best of the lot.
Carl is backed by APG Baits and used an Angling Dynamics boilie on the hook.
Top tip: “Prebaiting can be vital when fishing big rivers like the Trent. It really gives you a head start."
KYLE Binns’
12lb 4oz bream is one of only a handful of the species in Wintersett Reservoir. North Yorkshire.
The 12-year-old was treated by his dad to an overnight session on the
100-acre complex after they had prebaited a spot with boilies.
The fish took two fake maggots fished helicopter-style over a bed of dead maggots, casters and chopped boilies.
Top tip: “A shoal of large bream will eat a lot so feed plenty.
ROOKIE angler Ellie Brown banked this 21lb carp from the margins of a Midlands stillwater after persuading her boyfriend Ryan Gibson, a Dynamite Baits-backed match angler, to let her take over the rod.
Minutes later the float buried, and after a nervy battle the giant mirror was in the net. It took corn over a bed of Dynamite Baits Mega Margin Mix.
Top Tip: “Never ignore the margins…especially at this time of the year.”
Hunky Dory for Greg:
Guernsey skipper Greg Whitehead broke his John Dory personal best when he hauled up this fine 7lb 7oz fish.
He was aboard his own vessel ‘Bluefin’ and caught the specimen over the Great Bank, off the east coast of the island. It took a live sandeel.
Top Tip: “This species likes a bait with a little movement, so dry dragging the sand eel along the bottom.”
A Big Roach Surprise:
A CARP fishing session threw up a great surprise for youngster Kane Thompson in the form of this near 2lb roach.
The Milton Keynes based angler was fishing local water, Furzton Lake where he tempted the plump redfin on a Nash Key Kray boilie surrounded by a few Nash riser floating pellets. He said: “I thought I had hooked a nuisance bream but was really happy to see such a stunning roach come out instead.”
Top Tip: “Follow the wind for the big roach.”
A fine pair of Rudd:
RIG foam helped Tim Mortlock land two specimen rudd of 1lb 12oz and 1lb 13oz.
Rudd are well known to feed off the bottom, so when Tim headed to Frensham Great Pond in Surrey for the first time he decided to use the foam to help pop up his single maggot hookbait.
Top tip: “A helicopter rig with a maggot feeder and a single maggot with a sliver of foam on the hook was the secret.”
Keep It Simple For Chub:
RIG foam helped Tim Mortlock land two specimen rudd of 1lb 12oz and 1lb 13oz.
Rudd are well known to feed off the bottom, so when Tim headed to Frensham Great Pond in Surrey for the first time he decided to use the foam to help pop up his single maggot hookbait.
Top tip: “A helicopter rig with a maggot feeder and a single maggot with a sliver of foam on the hook was the secret.”
Perch Falls to Crayfish:
Robin Piper was struggling to get past the roach on his local fishery, but a switch to cockles and crayfish tails soon did the job
and helped to put this 3lb 5oz perch on the bank.
Robin was at his favourite Kent stillwater, targeting a lily bed three rodlengths out.
Top tip: “I cut the crayfish tails in half, put the tail end on a size 12 barbless hook and loosefed the bigger sections with a few cut-up cockles.”
