Monster roach shakes British record
Roach fanatic Ken Fuller also fished Homersfield to bank a 4lb 3oz fish that falls just 1oz short of the current British record.
The 66-year-old from Norwich hooked the roach on his first cast at the Suffolk lake.
He’s been fishing for the species for 60 years, and his dream came true when he fished a Method feeder loaded with softened pellets and coupled that with a 5lb fluorocarbon hooklink and a 12mm boilie.
“I thought it was a bream at first, then I saw it and I wished my landing net pole was about four feet longer…what an incredible sight!” he said.
“This truly is a dream come true and a fish-of-a-lifetime.”
Ken’s new personal best falls a tantalising 1oz short of the official British best – a 4lb 4oz fish caught in 2006 by Keith Berry from a stillwater in Northern Ireland.
