Dream roach session with five fish for 14lb 11oz

A ROACH of 3lb is considered by many to be the Holy Grail of angling, but Paul Scowen managed to land two of them as part of a sensational haul totalling 14lb 11oz.

Between 2pm and 6pm during his stay at a southern syndicate lake, the 48-year-old from Oxfordshire slipped his net under specimens of 2lb 5oz, 2lb 11oz, 3lb, 3lb 2oz and 3lb 9oz. Paul fished maggots and groundbait to a deep, clear spot at 55 yards and admits that at one stage he couldn’t keep the rod in the water. 

“Before I could even set up my second rod I’d already caught two roach, and within an hour I’d caught four,” he told us.

“The biggest roach came around 6pm and I thought it could’ve been a perch by the way it was fighting. I was blown away by how quickly these big fish kept coming.”

Paul Scowen with a once in a lifetime haul of big roach