King of the 20s!
AL RAWLINGS has smashed the record for the number of 20 lb pike ever caught – while boat fishing with previous holder Neville Fickling.
This 24 lb 10 oz beauty is Al’s 431 20 lb-plus specimen to sneak ahead of Nev’s life-time tally – and now he’s got his sights set higher.
Al, 45, originally from Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire but now living in Boyle, Ireland, explained: ‘I probably average about 18-25 20s per year although twice I’ve had 37.
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Bri’s British beast nudges near 60 lb!
HINDERS field tester Brian Humphries included one of the very biggest carp in the country in a brilliant ten-fish haul when he nabbed this 59 lb 14 oz mirror.
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire-based Brian also included a 40 lb 8 oz common in the session on opening week at an undisclosed Berkshire stillwater.
Hinders of Swindon shop manager Shaun Hodges explained: ‘He laid a bed of bait using a combo of Hinders Snailz frozen boilies together with jars of Salt and Pepper Hemp, Carp Krunch and Chopped Tigers, fishing a Snailz pop-up as his hookbait.’
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Bream angler smashes mullet World record
KEEN coarse angler Shaun Sillett has smashed the British and World thin-lipped grey mullet records with a 7 lb 9 oz beauty while bream fishing at Oulton Broad in Suffolk.
The mullet still looks huge in the picture with beefy Shaun, who stands at 6 ft 4 in. tall, and he hopes to claim all the records possible.
The official British best stands at 7 lb in 1991 by Neil Mableson from Oulton Broad but we revealed it was beaten two months ago at 7 lb 3 dr by carper Steve Maliska from Malpas in Cornwall on harbour rag.
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World’s most stunning carp!
CHECK this beauty out! This koi-mirror cross is being hailed as the most amazing carp in any fishery in the World.
The stunning fish – seen here with a Dutch angler at 37 lb but has reached a fraction under 40 lb – is one of the stars at top French carp venue The Sanctuary, owned by English carp fanatic Adam Entwhistle.
Adam, who has a seven-acre lake and another bigger lake that will open up in a year or two, explained: ‘Quite a few of the anglers who come here want to catch him and he is quite a unique-looking fish.
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Grafter gets rewards with stunning 10 lb tench
MIKE DAVIDSON proved you get out what you put in when he caught this 10 lb 2 oz tench.
Drennan rep Mike 33, from Midhurst, West Sussex, reckons there may only be ten decent tench in the 20-acre Surrey pit he’s been fishing.
‘I spent months clearing areas where I thought they would be feeding,’ he revealed.
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