Is this the season's top tench?

This excellent fish is potentially the largest tench of the season, and was banked by Alex Warren after he noticed fish holding up in a corner of the syndicate lake his dad used to fish when he was a youngster.

It weighted an astonishing 14lb 2oz and fell to a Nash Tackle Tangerine Dream boilie hookbait. 

Alex told Angling Times that he cast under an overhanging willow tree before his rod burst into life moments later.

A 10-minute battle followed before Alex slipped the net under the big tinca.

He said: “I guess it all began many years ago when my dad took me to this syndicate lake and he caught the most amazing tench.

“As the big tail of this fish went over the cord of the net I jumped for joy. To catch it from the next swim down to where my dad caught his many, many years previously really did make this the most rewarding catch of my life.”