400lb bag smashes Larford Lakes record

Mikey Williams crushed the opposition to win the recent Golden Reel match at Larford Lakes with a venue record weight of 401-8-0, booking himself a return visit to Larford in September for the final and a crack at winning £50,000.

His end peg 30 on the grass bank of the Match Lake had no angler to his right until the opposite bank, and pegs to his left were not drawn. That meant more fish to draw into his own peg.

“They seemed too far up in the water to catch them on pellet, so I put two dead red maggots on the hook to get a slower fall of the bait,” Mikey says.
“After 55 minutes I had 127lb on my clicker. After 90 minutes, though, the carp drifted off to the space on my left.
I needed to get them back in my peg.
“I started lashing in casters at 13m, fishing two maggots shallow on the same rig I’d used to mug early on, and I caught another 150lb in the next two hours, but the lad opposite me was bagging as well, so I wasn’t having it all my own way.”

By fishing corn over groundbait to both margins, in the final 15 minutes alone he had 44lb of carp from the left-hand side, which proved to be the better of his edges. “It was solid with fish!” he says.