Season’s heaviest bream falls to a shocked carp angler

Bream are a nuisance to some carp anglers, but Carl Sheppard was left scrambling for the net when he saw the biggest slab of the season on the end of his line. 

Carl, who hails from Congleton, Cheshire, landed this 18lb 6oz specimen from a local mere on a two-night session.

Carl had taken fish to 17lb 10oz from the same water a few months earlier, but when he saw that this fish was even bigger he was in complete shock:

He tempted the big slab on a wafter hookbait presented on a blowback rig.