Avon record zander?

PREDATOR enthusiast Paul Thomas believes he may have boated a potential Warwickshire Avon zander record after this 16lb 2oz cracker snapped up his bleak deadbait.

Just a few days after he’d landed a 15lb 14oz zed from the River Severn, the Gloucester angler tried his luck on the Avon… and ended up latching into something even larger in pretty short order.

He told us:

“I’d cast my bleak deadbaits into the middle of the river and before I knew it I was battling a heavy fish. Following the usual crashing and diving near the boat I netted another huge zander, which was a new PB at 16lb 2oz!

“I’ve only ever heard of one bigger zander from the Warks Avon, but no pictures ever surfaced of it.”

Paul Thomas and his 16lb 2oz zander from the Warwickshire Avon