Huge tench the result of four-year campaign for young specimen angler

KANE Hammond is only 17, but he’s just banked a tench that most seasoned specimen anglers could only dream of. It was his fourth consecutive spring targeting a 90-acre southern gravel pit in search of his first double, which came during the first morning of a 48-hour session.

He told us:

“I thought it was a carp, as it was so heavy, but when I saw it was a giant tench in the clear margins the nerves set in!

“When I got it in the net I was hopeful it was a double, so when the scales read over 11lb I was shocked.”

Kane’s new tench PB took four popped-up maggots over a bed of hemp, corn, dead maggots and broken boilies on a gravel bar.

Kane Hammond’s tench weighed a whopping 11lb 3oz