THE biggest bream brace of the year has been taken by Dai Gribble from a large Home Counties gravel pit.
The Environment Agency worker from Stafford took fish weighing 17lb 4oz and 16lb 4oz just an hour apart after baiting a long range mark heavily with a mixture of pellets, wheat, groats and hemp and presenting an 11mm halibut pellet over the top.
Read Tuesday's AT for full details of the amazing brace.
THE biggest carp brace in UK history has been taken by Jon McAllister with fish of 59lb 2oz and 47lb from the The Manor Farm syndicate in Kent.
The 38-year-old tiler from Kent took the amazing quick fire double from a weedy corner of the lake, beginning with the ‘The Northern Linear’ at an impressive 47lb just two hours after casting out. After rebaiting, he then rested his swim overnight, and then took the big one – the much sought after Annie – early the next morning.
Full details and pictures of the catch in next week’s AT.
IRELAND has long been heralded to be one of Europe’s leading venues for big bags of bream, and it’s easy to see why when it produces nets like Andrew Bradley’s 215lb haul.
The Gomersal, West Yorkshire-based angler took the huge bag, plus another of 174lb, during two day-long visits to a stillwater in County Cavan which he prebaited the evening before each session with 30 balls of groundbait.
Read next week’s AT for details about the location Andrew visited, plus the tactics he adopted..
TWO casts was all angling legend Bob Church needed to take an incredible brace of big carp, topped by this stunning 44lb lightly scaled mirror.
The Northants-based specimen angler took the new personal best fish, along with another mirror carp of 22lb, from a seven-acre East Midlands stillwater.
See Tuesday's AT for full details of Bob’s ‘catch of a lifetime’.
