Biggest eel of the season banked!

A DOUBLE lobworm hookbait fished to a gravel plateau helped Paul Faint land the largest reported eel of the season so far in the shape of this 7lb 3oz beauty. 

Paul, from Waltham Abbey, Essex, was fishing a 48-hour session on a southern gravel pit when he had a screaming take at dawn on day two. 

“The light was just starting to show when I had a single toner,” Paul tells us.

“After striking into it an epic battle unfolded, but I was able to pull it to the net soon afterwards.

“I could tell it was a new PB and when the scales read 7lb 3oz my adrenaline was running sky-high!”

Paul Faint and his huge 7lb 3oz eel