Angler’s Mail – July 09, 2019

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this July 9,

2019 issue.

News

4 Mail editor’s 70 lb-plus river carp

6 Former Mail man’s 90th birthday

7 Washing machines harming rivers

8 Your Great Catches

10 Junior National side’s 3 Golds

Features

12 Surprise Euro Champs winners

14 Letters – Close Season vote

16 Steve Collett – big barbel on half a

tin of luncheon meat at a time

20 John Bailey – catastrophes

23 Neville Fickling – members’ fish

24 Dean Aldridge – his secret tactics

for catching huge UK catfish.

28 Maurice Pledger – tench outings

30 Andy Browne – river fishing

32 Dr Ian Welch – gloves for fish care

34 Dave Coster – famous anglers

who have influenced his fishing

37 TV preview – Monster Carp back

38 Colin Davidson – starting right

40 Ollie & Andy – quickfire predators

42 Matt Sparkes – classic AM

43 Mike Salisbury – education

44 Richard Howard’s Gear of Week

46 Where To Fish – top venue guide

63 The Informant

MINI GIANT

The British three-spined

stickleback record has

been beaten after 21

years, by a fi sh from a

Nottinghamshire pond.

Full story in p.5.

WIN

KIM WHILEY is the

winner of the star

£100 Richworth

prize this week,

and will receive a

bumper goody bag

of brilliant Megaplex bait. Kim

and all of the other anglers

on this page also receive an

exclusive Richworth Fish Of

The Week t-shirt.

■ ANDREW POOLE got his barbel

campaign off to the best possible

start with this 16 lb 15 oz

‘whisker’ from the River Thames.

The 44-year-old Harlow, Essex,

angler offered a single 12 mm

Dynamite pellet with a 4 oz

running lead and a size 11 hook.

He’d baitdroppered two pints

of hemp and half a kilo of mixed

sizes of pre-soaked Dynamite

pellets to a gravel bar close in.

Andrew said: “Around 3.20am

my rod tip slammed around like

only a barbel could achieve.

“After a slow, dogged

20-minute battle, I slid the net

under the beast, knowing from

my head-torch that I may have

equalled or beaten my PB, which

stood at 16 lb 7 oz.”

■ FORMER Angler’s Mail reporter

Gary Newman notched up his

33rd and 34th double-fi gure

tench with a brace of tincas

scaling 10 lb 10 oz and 10 lb 7 oz.

Chesham, Buckinghamshire-

based Gary added an 8 lb 3 oz

sample at a Colne Valley lake,

using double Enterprise Tackle

Imitation Casters hair-rigged on

a size 12 Guru MWGB hook to a

10 lb braided trace and an in-line

lead, fi shed Method-style.

The 42-year-old all-rounder

said: “The tench population

at this water has dwindled

signifi cantly over the years, so

I fed quite lightly, but I was still

surprised when within an hour

I had a take and found myself

attached to what I initially

thought was a carp.

“It went off so powerfully and

took quite a bit of line, but I soon

realised it was a tench, and it

felt big, so I played it carefully

and eventually managed to net a

chunky fi sh of 10 lb 7 oz.

“The following morning passed

without any signs of fi sh, but

then I saw one roll, and around

1.30pm I found myself connected

to another good fi sh, this one

10 lb 10 oz,” added the Korda TV

production manager.

■ DELIVERY

driver Joe Royffe

had a surprise

when a tench

trip to a local pit

produced this

magnifi cent 4 lb

9 oz perch.

The 29-year-

old Cheshunt,

Hertfordshire,

angler used

two hair-rigged

artifi cial casters

on a size 16 hook

with a PVA bag,

over four pints of

casters and 1 kg

of hemp.

TENCH – 10 lb 10 oz

70.1% of British record

PERCH – 4 lb 9 oz

73.3% of British record

BARBEL –

16 lb 15 oz

80.2% of

British record