Angler’s Mail – July 09, 2019

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News This week’s GREAT CATCHES

This week’s GREAT CARP CATCHES

Huge battle with Thames cat

D

EAN THOMAS was

surprised when he hooked

this stunning 35 lb 4 oz catfish

during a lure fishing session on

the River Thames, at Kingston,

in South West London.

Hinchley Wood, Surrey-based

Dean explained: “I decided

to go predator fishing on my

friend’s boat after finishing

work. I used a Shakespeare

Ugly Stik spinning rod to work

a large perch imitation on

25 lb braid.

“I have fished the River

Thames for over 20 years, and

have caught carp up to 30 lb,

but I’ve never seen anyone

catch a catfish.

“This one put up a real battle,

staying on the bottom and

TONY STOCKDALE was beginning to think that it wasn’t to be his night

after a pal had caught four barbel, but his luck changed, as he hooked

and landed this 16 lb 6 oz PB stunner. The 56-year-old forest craftsman

from Malton, in North Yorkshire, tackled the River Trent, near Newark, in

Nottinghamshire, with a groundbait feeder and halibut pellets.

pulling the boat left, right and

down the river.

“After about half an hour I

started to get the better of it,

and a further 35 minutes later I

managed to get it in the net.

“I was so excited!” added the

30-year-old angler, who works

as a landscape gardener.

ABBY BLACKWELL drew a crowd of walkers when she hooked this

3 lb perch from the River Severn in Worcestershire. The 29-year-old

sales manager from Dudley, in the West Midlands, jigged a white shad,

and said: “It is a new PB. I was rather chuffed (the other half not so

much), and I attracted a massive audience when I caught it.”

STEVE SQUIRE baited heavily on the first

evening at local Rockford Lake, and then four

mornings later bagged this 50 lb 4 oz mirror

carp. Poole, Dorset-based Steve, 30, fished a

12 mm Sticky Baits Signature Squid wafter

over 10 kg of The Krill boilies and 5 kg of

Bloodworm pellets, at 120 yards.

MATTHEW MINTER caught this common carp,

known as the Long Common, just 1 ft from the

bank at Ashmead, in Somerset. The 45-year-

old angler from Woodbridge, in Suffolk, fished

a Sticky Baits The Krill boilie with a PVA bag of

Stick Mix, Krill Liquid and pellets, and landed

it in thick weed after a protracted fight.

ENGINEER Simon Kenny fished the Little Lake

at Berkshire’s Wellington Country Park to

tempt this 40 lb 4 oz ghost carp.

Diss, Norfolk-based Simon added a 32 lb

2 oz mirror and 22 lb 4 oz common on Sticky

Baits Signature Squid pop-ups over The Krill

boilies in a margin at 50 yards.