ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
ANDY Hubbard banked one of the old original mirrors weighing 27lb 8oz from Frimley Pit 1, Surrey. Known as The Pretty Fish, it fell for a 14mm Sticky Signature pop-up.
ANTHONY O’Neill landed three carp to 35lb 6oz after work from Walthamstow Reservoirs 2 & 3 on snowman rigs made from Sticky Krill Tuff Ones and pink pop-ups.
BEN Jones got his campaign on Englefield, Reading off to a great start with this 25lb 8oz mirror. He used a German rig baited with a Mainline Cell boilie at 23 wraps.
DANIEL Winfield banked this 49lb 8oz mirror on an overnighter at a southern syndicate. It fell for a shaved-down 20mm Krill bottom bait paired with half a Krill pop-up.
ANDY Ruthven baited a deep gully heavily at a Lea Valley lake to tempt a bite from this 34lb 2oz common. He used an Amnesia D-rig with a Sticky Krill dumbell wafter.
BEN Halfpenny took six carp to 37lb in 48 hours on Trent View, Notts. He fished Sticky Manilla wafters at 22 wraps’ range to a gravel bar towards the far margin.
A SESSION at Fendrod Lake in Swansea produced two commons to 24lb 2oz for Damian Davies. He used a Mainline Diamond White wafter over Fyber and Cell freebies.
A SOLAR Top Banana pop-up over Red Herring boilies and mixed particles scored for Dave Wood when he caught this 47lb mirror from Elphicks North Lake, Kent.
ADAM Francis braced this 38lb 2oz mirror with a 35lb 6oz common during a 72-hour session at the Essex Manor. Both fish fell for Sticky Krill wafters on Slip-D multi rigs.
A GERMAN rig baited with a Sticky Krill wafter over a handful of loosefeed accounted for this 26lb 7oz common from Scunthorpe’s Silica Lodge Fishery for Kacy Fenwick (16).
ON HIS first visit to the Carp Society’s Horseshoe Lake, Glos, Christopher Cox banked five fish to 27lb 8oz using Baitworks Royal Marine bottom baits.
DEAN Mason landed his first thirty in the shape of this lake record 32lb fish from a venue in North Yorkshire. He used Urban Baits Nutcracker boilies on a snowman set-up.
LEE Goddard targeted the edge of a mussel bed 20yds out to catch this 31lb 3oz common from Monks Pit, Cambs. He used a Mainline Salty Squid pop-up in a solid PVA bag.
AN OVERNIGHTER at Layfields in Norfolk resulted in this fine 39lb 4oz common for Louis Harmer. He offered a Sticky Krill dumbbell wafter on a Noodle rig over chops and corn.
THIS superb 43lb mirror was the best of three banked by Jake Snelling from Cherry Lakes, Cirencester. He used a Sticky Krill bottom bait, surrounded by 20 freebies.
JOSH Missin targeted a marginal overhanging tree at Stretham Lake, Ely, Cambs, to catch this 29lb 12oz mirror. He used a yellow Sticky Manilla pop-up on a Ronnie rig.
LEE Wheeler used a simple bottom bait rig fished with a Sticky Manilla wafter over boilies and particle to bag himself this 34lb 15oz common from Nunnery D Lake, Norfolk.
UNDERARMING a Sticky Krill pop-up out to showing fish on the end of the wind resulted in this 32lb 13oz mirror for Rob Dobson during a session at Churn Pool, Cirencester.
THIS 28lb 8oz mirror fell to Mark Johnson during a session at The Folly, Peterborough. It took a Mainline Cell pop-up on a Ronnie rig over a big spread of freebies.
A ONE-ROD-only approach at Hawkhurst Specimen Lake, Kent, paid off for Thomas Marshall when he banked a 32lb common. He used a Sticky Manilla wafter over crumb.
THIS 34lb 10oz common was one of Steven Ives’ target fish from Earith Lakes, Cambs. He caught it using Bait-Tech Triple-N pop-ups over a bed of matching freebies, hemp and corn.
LONDONER Terry Deegan (29) was fishing at The Chase, near Dagenham in Essex, when he landed this 31lb common using a Sticky Manilla pop-up on a size 4 hook.
STEVE Shaw banked this pretty 38lb 6oz mirror from Acton Burnell, Shrops, after it picked up his Mainline Link cork dust pop-up, cast 60yds to the Dam Wall area.
THIS ancient mirror weighing 28lb 2oz was caught from the Abbotts syndicate in Hertfordshire by Terry Frank. It fell for a Mainline Cell wafter hookbait.
TOBY Searl smashed his personal best with this 40lb 14oz common from a southern syndicate lake. It took a CC Moore Live System pop-up over a bed of boilies and hemp.
TOM Loraine continued his run of big fish from the Essex Manor by catching the mirror known as Poundcoin at 43lb. It took a Sticky Krill White One on a naked helicopter set-up.
MARTIN Locke banked numerous fish to 36lb during a great session at Elphicks North Lake in Kent using Solar Dairy Cream pop-ups over worms and Club Mix boilies.
STEFAN Radymski was rewarded for enduring wet and windy conditions at his local syndicate by catching this 24lb mirror. He put his faith in Solar Club Mix boilies.