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THIS WEEK ALTHOUGH he’s only seven years old, Leo Deprieelle is building an impressive list of predator PBs, having just added this 13lb 2oz zander! Earlier this year, he hit the headlines with a 5lb 1oz perch, and followed it up with the big ‘zed’ on a trip to the River Severn with his dad, John. Leo was fishing a two-inch soft rubber lure on a 5g jig head, which had just hit bottom when line started peeling from his reel. “There was chaos as the fish bored deep, and I assumed a rogue pike might be to blame,” dad John told us. “After almost losing it around the transducer, it surfaced and we both looked at each other, with Leo shouting, ‘it’s massive!’ “The catch won’t be forgotten in…

SEND US YOUR PICS • newsdesk@anglingtimes.co.uk• Make sure your pics are hi-res and that you are in them “THE VENUE ONCE HELD THE BRITISH RECORD” Dai Gribble – 15lb 13oz bream “I’VE been doing a bit of a bream campaign at Cop Mere in Staffordshire lately. “It’s a venue with history for the species, having held the British Record in the 1980s. Although it’s generally known for tench now, there are still a few big ones in here, albeit not many of them. “Using a boat, I cleared an area of weed around 65 yards out and had some success from the spot, landing a few 13-pounders, one of 15lb 3oz, plus this fish of 15lb 13oz. “The biggest one fell to a rubber corn hookbait, which I fished over…

GET READY WITH CHRIS PONSFORD WAGGLER fishing is an underrated approach that can really boost your catches on commercials at this time of the year. We’re not talking a pellet waggler, but the more traditional version that you may have used in your early forays into floatfishing. It’s a brilliantly simple way of covering the water beyond the pole line when the fish are feeding at various depths, and you can catch fish of all species and sizes on it. The best bit? One rod and a few pints of bait is all you need for an action-packed trip to your favourite fishery! GIVE IT A GO 1 USE SENSITIVE FLOATS Fish feeding up in the water can inhale a bait and spit it back out again in a split second,…

RICHARD WALKER ON THE ‘CATCHABILITY’ OF CARP, 1972 NOT for the first time, the great Richard Walker demonstrates a Nostradamus-type understanding of the future of angling in this week’s archive piece. Written in 1972, it harks back 20 years to when he captured that massive Redmire common carp, which he christened ‘Ravioli’. It was subsequently renamed ‘Clarissa’ by London Zoo as, no doubt, part of a desire for anthropomorphism. It worked well, of course… perhaps not as well as Tarka or Thumper, but it certainly created anglers who set out to catch, not just one species, but one fish (until that one’s ticked off the bucket list, then it’s on to the next). In this piece, Walker speaks about the catchability of carp. He suggests that few were banked back…

THIS WEEK EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM THE WORLD OF FISHING THE BIGGEST barbel of the season – a giant scaling 20lb 2oz – has been banked by an angler who believes it could easily smash the British record by the end of the season. The huge fish, which is just 1lb off the current best, was landed from the River Trent by Ian Green. It comes in a remarkable week for anglers targeting the species, with a new River Severn record and a 19lb 8oz Hampshire Avon beast among a host of other impressive hauls. Ian, captor of the Trent ‘twenty’, which not surprisingly set a new personal best, had actually planned to be on a ‘social’ session elsewhere with a few mates. But when that was cancelled,…

TACKLE GUIDE TWO years ago, Guru smashed its way into the pole market with its Aventus range. The company’s take on what a top-end bit of kit should be resulted in a pair of poles with an incredible degree of strength and durability. The stiffness and responsiveness relied upon their fast-tapering system, which gave them their own unique feel on already crowded pole alleys. Stunning as they are, I sensed a little disappointment among some match anglers – not because of the poles themselves, but the price tag. Starting at just under £3,000 and topping out at more than £4,000, Guru Aventus poles were intended for the most serious of match anglers – people who fish festivals, big qualifiers or even internationally. The core match fishing fraternity – the guys…

SOMETIMES, it’s not how many fish you catch, but how you catch them that matters most, and on a recent trip to the Hampshire Avon with Laurence Hanger, I decided to try to put this perspective into practice. We were staying at The Riverside Lodge just outside Fordingbridge, where the river offers some of the country’s best chub and barbel fishing. A freelined or quivertipped lobworm would catch both these popular species, and maybe more besides, because everything that swims loves a lobby. The best part of it was that we’d be waking up next to the river, no more than a dozen footsteps away from some fantastic fishing! After a good meal and a blissfully peaceful night’s sleep in the lodge, we were up early and eager to see…

BIG STICK FLOAT FLOATFISHING for barbel is almost a forgotten art in this age of the swimfeeder but, on the right peg, running a float through can be devastating, especially when the rivers are running at low or normal levels – anything but floods, really! Look for a swim where the main flow and deepest water is close to the bank, because this makes trotting a stick float straight down the swim much easier, and allows the rig to be eased downstream at anything up to a quarter of the pace of the surface flow. This is important, because the current near the riverbed, where the barbel are to be found, is always slower than at the surface. THE TACKLE YOU NEED √ 3g-8g stick, Avon or Loafer float√ Bulk…

THIS WEEK DESPITE undergoing chemotherapy for stage 4 cancer, Martin Nichols hasn’t let that stop him from enjoying his angling, having just landed a sublime brace of carp. Fishing at Cambridgeshire’s Grenville Lakes, he had a pair totalling 99lb in the net at the same time, the bigger one being a 58lb 8oz mirror. On the same session, he added two more 40lb fish, and a ‘thirty’ just for good measure. “After my diagnosis earlier this year my target was to catch a new UK PB, with my previous best standing at 39lb 15oz,” he told us. “When I was invited to fish at Grenville by a good friend, I wasn’t expecting to have what I can only describe as a dream session.” His first fish came just…

IT’S FAIR to say that Jamie Hughes is a commercial match angling phenomenon, and when you dig deep into his stats, it quickly becomes apparent just how good he is. He’s won hundreds of thousands of pounds and dozens of prestigious titles, including Fish O’Mania three times, Maver Match This twice and Golden Reel once. A master of any tactic you’re likely to need on modern matchfishing venues, he’s equally as adept at bagging big carp from the margins as he is at catching F1s shallow. And, once winter comes, he’s a dab hand with the silvers too! This year has been up there with his most successful so far, as he qualified for his 13th Fish O’Mania in a row, won Maver Match This, and is just weeks away…

FISH SOUTH FINALWillinghurst Fishery, John’s & Top Pools (30 pegs) A HOST of the UK’s most talented commercial match anglers descended upon Willinghurst Fishery to vie for the coveted Fish South title, and Ashley Blunt once again put his name on the silverware. Having won it in 2022 and 2023, he had a big task on his hands to complete the treble, with Paul Holland, Mikey Williams and Robbie Taylor among the opposition. But, in a match decided on overall weight over two days, Ashley overcame the odds, and we caught up with him to see how he went about scooping the £10,000 top prize. DAY ONE – TOP POOL, PEG 2 “I’d wanted to draw in the back straight of the lake, and when I picked out peg 2…

HAVING already proved popular with anglers throughout the rest of Europe, ‘sun tops’ are now slowly catching on over here. The idea is that not only will the thin and lightweight long-sleeved shirt protect you from sunburn and reduce the chances of skin cancer but, by keeping your skin out of direct sunlight, you don’t get that ‘being cooked’ burning sensation, which in turn helps you feel cooler. It obviously works, as it’s rare to find a match angler competing in the hottest parts of the continent who doesn’t wear one! The fabric they are made from is light and breathable, helping air get to your skin which, again, reduces the build-up of heat. Other than that, the fabric itself isn’t anything special. At least that was the case until…

TO LOOK at some of the catch reports in Angling Times, you’d be forgiven for thinking that catching big barbel is a fairly speedy affair, provided you’re in the right swim. But in fact it can be a real waiting game, and one where you need to have the utmost confidence in your rig. A handful of hefty double-figure fish could live in the stretch you’re targeting , and when one finally shows an interest in your hookbait, your set-up not only needs to be well presented and mechanically sound, but also bombproof in its construction. My rig might be out for a couple of hours at a time, and the last thing I want is to reel it in, only to find a massive tangle that almost certainly happened…

CARPSKILLS IF YOU head to any busy day-ticket water, you can all but guarantee that there will be plenty of anglers using a bright pop-up hookbait – either fished over a bed of spodded freebies or with a PVA bag – on at least one of their rods. Sure, it’s a great tactic that accounts for numerous fish. By this point of the year, however, many carp will have fallen foul of such a presentation on more than one occasion, and it’s definitely something they can start to become wary of. This is why, from now until the temperatures really drop, I favour the use of ‘match the hatch’ hookbaits. The term, borrowed from the fly-fishing world, refers to using a bait that closely resembles the natural food sources in…

BRADFORD NO.1 ANGLING ASSOCIATION, NORTH & WEST YORKSHIRE Yorkshire barbel are getting bigger and, to make the most of them, Bradford No.1 is a hard club to beat. It offers fishing on many premier barbel rivers. Head to the intimate Nidd and stalk numbers of smaller fish, or try the Swale or Ure for a specimen. Price: £60 adult membership Contact: 01274 881851 LOUGHBOROUGH SOAR ANGLING SOCIETY, LEICESTERSHIRE The River Soar has been in decent form over recent seasons. It’s by no means a pushover, but the rewards are there for those putting in the effort. Loughborough Soar AS tickets offer excellent value. Price: £45 adult membership Contact: Soar Tackle, 01509 670436 SCUNTHORPE AMALGAMATED ANGLERS, NORTH LINCS/ NOTTINGHAMSHIRE This value-for-money club controls some brilliant fishing on the Trent, including the…

(* indicates an anagram) ACROSS 8/6dn. ___-___ crayfish, the only English native one (*we watch, idle) (5-6)9 Three-lake complex at White Acres park site, Cornwall (*big, lonely!) (9)10 Herts. chalk stream, St Albans' river – in Inveraray! (3)11 e.g. cog on a reel's drive gear (5)12 Afon __, river discharging into Menai Strait (*go new) (5)13 City where River Witham joins Fossdyke Navigation (7) 15 Gtr Manchester suburb – (*chad, eel!) (7)17 Of, or relating to fish (*in epics) (7) 19 Float rod's tip is hollow or ____ (7)21 To increase in size/quantity (*leger n/a) (7)23 Classic barbel videos by __ ___ and Stuart Morgan (*rub goby) (3,4)25 ___ Weir where Grand Union meets Soar (*naves) (5)27 Provocative internet poster (5)29 Female pike seen in Southend (3)30 Hesitant, as a…