WELCOME TO this week’s Big Fish Blog, coming to you here every Thursday. This time it’s by the Pike Anglers Club. We take predator fishing seriously at the Mail, so are delighted…
British record fish
121-pounder is UK’s biggest lake sturgeon
PREDATOR angling coach Rikki Cooper recorded the biggest ever lake sturgeon in the UK when he caught this 121 lb 9 oz monster while holding a 48-hour catfish masterclass. Rikki…
BIG FISH BLOG (Thurs): are modern fishing rigs are load of cobblers?
Thursday is our Big Fish Blog and it’s the turn of Marukyu, the Japan-based bait innovators with products specially designed to catch UK fish. The words below come to us…
BIG FISH BLOG (Thur): Chris Tarrant’s secret giant fish, and all the latest from Pallatrax
WELCOME to our latest daily blog, exclusively here on the Angler’s Mail website. Thursday is our Big Fish Blog and it’s the turn of Pallatrax, our Specimen Cup sponsors. Team…
BIG FISH BLOG (Thurs): injuries, specimen fish and top tackle for Korum
WELCOME to our latest daily blog, exclusively here on the Angler’s Mail website. Next up on our Big Fish Blog is Korum, keeping you up to speed on what their…
Record catfish to a woman
IN AN amazing month for catfish, Kirstin Hole has caught the biggest ever UK freshwater fish to a female at a whopping 120 lb in an amazing brace for nearly…
BIG FISH BLOG (Thursday): Korum
WELCOME to our latest daily blog, exclusively here on the Angler’s Mail website. Next up on our Big Fish Blog is Korum, keeping you up to speed on what their…
BIG FISH BLOG (Thursday): Pike Anglers Club
WELCOME TO the fourth of the new live blogs on the new-look Angler’s Mail website. Thursdays will see the Pike Anglers Club crew taking over our blogosphere. We take predator…
This 144 lb cat is Britain’s biggest-ever coarse catch!
THIS colossal 144 lb catfish is the heaviest-ever freshwater fish to have been caught in the UK. The history-making moggie fell to the rods of James Jones and surely is…
Floods strike but big fish feed
HEAVY rains have affected fishing in many areas again over the past week – and one of the best sessions ended early after the angler’s bivvy got flooded! Specimen ace…