YORKSHIRE’S BEST COMES OUT AT 52lb
Three Scale smashes pb by clear 20lb
HE biggest carp in Yorkshire has helped smash an angler’s personal best by 20lb.
Liam Doyle bagged Three Scale, the jewel in the crown of Eric’s Willows Lake, at 52lb.
The big mirror at the dayticket venue near Castleford has previously weighed as much as 59lb 8oz.
Liam told Carpfeed.com: “It was one of my target fish and it smashed my pb by 20lb – happy days!”
The Manchester angler was fishing 80 yards out and positioned a rod either side of a heavily baited patch at the back of a bar.
He said: “I was watching a bit of fizzing over my spot at 8.45am and thought ‘not long now’, when my right-hand rod sprang into life, letting out a one-toner.
“I struck into my rod and it hooped over, and I knew I was into a good fish. It kited to my right and was taking line steadily, so I played it out in open water to tire it out a bit.
“After that, it just came in slow and heavy. When the fish came up at the net and hit the spreader block I was over the moon.
“It was Three Scale, one of the lake’s A-Team, at an incredible 52lb.”