Angler’s Mail – July 09, 2019

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ZACH MENDELSOHN was after perch on the River Thames, at Staines,
in Middlesex, but connected with this PB 4 lb 8 oz eel. Zach, 44, from
London, legered a prawn near the town’s railway bridge, and caught
another eel, of 2 lb, and lost a good perch.

GROUNDWORKER Dean Mckee set a new barbel personal best with this

14 lb 8 oz specimen, caught from the River Trent. Darlington, County

Durham-based Dean added two other barbel, of 10 lb 8 oz and 10 lb,

along with three bream, all on legered boilies.

PETER SAVORY started the season with a bang, catching a 2 lb river
perch on a lure, before going one better, by tempting this 3 lb 3 oz
stripy. Fishing a local river, Hevingham, Norfolk-based Peter, 18,
presented a Z-Man Finesse ShadZ on a size 1/0 jighead.

DANIEL PHILLIPS has just got into fly fishing,
so decided to target carp on a local lake,
catching this PB 32 lb mirror and a 24 lb
common. The 36-year-old site manager from
Sevenoaks, in Kent, fished a piece of cork
among dog biscuits.

JAMES COLLEY topped a five-carp catch at

Yateley Match Lake, on the Surrey-Hampshire

border, with this 40 lb mirror. James, 30, a

mechanical engineer from Newcastle-under-

Lyme, in Staffordshire, legered Sticky Baits

The Krill boilies and fed 15 kg of boilies, hemp,

tiger nuts and maize over four nights.

KYLE ROBINSON witnessed this 28 lb 4 oz

common carp being caught a month ago from

his local Pasture Wood, and then managed to

catch it himself, after pre-baiting a margin

spot. The 26-year-old carper from Barton-

Upon-Humber, in Lincolnshire, offered a 16 mm

Mainline Essential I.B. pop-up to tempt it.

SIMON SELLERS caught this 9 lb 10 oz personal best bream during a

club match on the River Derwent at Menethorpe, in North Yorkshire. The

40-year-old forklift driver from Malton, in North Yorkshire, said: “I was

using an elasticated 8 m whip to fish a red maggot on a size 20 hook to

a 2 lb 8 oz hook link.”