Huge zander from a canal

Canal predators don’t come much bigger than this cracking 16lb zander caught by electronics engineerJacob Wise.

The 38-year-old caught the beast from the Gloucester Canal in the South West, where he tempted it on a sprat deadbait on a scaled-down wire trace mounted on a simple running leger rig. 

The angler from Stonehouse, Glos, who broke his previous best of 14lb 6oz with the catch, said: “It’s the third time I have caught this species and strangely they have all been caught when there has been a full moon. 

“The zander in this canal tend to prefer the deeper open water than the shallow marginal areas.” 

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