NORTH MET ORIGINAL OUT AT 42lb

A LONG campaign to bank one of the old originals from North Met Pit in the Lea Valley came to a successful end for Dave Cornes when he landed a 42lb 8oz mirror.

After finding a promising spot on his previous session at the 60-acre Herts stillwater, Dave (41) baited it up before he left and then returned for a quick overnighter 48 hours later.

He hit the jackpot during the early hours, but not before he had done battle with more of the lake’s residents, as he explained: “The crayfish were on full song, terrorising my baits, so baiting up regularly was essential. The fish came five minutes after putting another 1kg over the two rods”

42lb

YOUNGSTER Curtis Evans became the envy of many carpers by landing a 42lb mirror from Elphicks, Kent. He used a German rig carrying a Dynamite Complex-T boilie.

32lb

LONG-RANGE tactics helped Mark Riley to catch this 32lb 8oz common from Grenville Lake, Cambs. He used a combi rig baited with a pop-up over Bait-Tech Triple-N boilies.

44lb

WESLEY Johnson banked one of the most sought-after carp in the north, the mirror known as ‘Mr Angry’ at 44lb 10oz, from ‘a Manchester park lake’. He used a Sticky Manilla wafter.

40lb

ON HIS very first night on Long Island Lake, Cambs, Paul Phasey banked his target fish in the shape of this 40lb 2oz mirror. It fell for a sweet Mainline pop-up over 12 freebies.

45lb

MATT Hart caught the Big Linear from Wellington Country Park, Berks at 45lb 12oz, after it picked up his

Mainline Cell pop-up, presented on a multi rig over 1kg of 18mm freebies.

34lb

MARC Woodward landed one of the ‘A-Team’ from Cardiff’s Wharf Fishery, weighing 34lb 12oz, after it picked up his Sticky Signature white wafter, presented on a Spinner rig.

31lb

SHANE Newman used a blowback rig baited with a Sticky Krill wafter to tempt a bite from this 31lb common during a session at Christchurch Lake on the Linch Hill complex.

34lb

A BRACE of thirties to 34lb 12oz fell to Rob Gooch on a session at Elstow Pit 2, Bedfordshire. Both fish fell to

Sticky Signiture Squid wafters on short braided hooklinks.

40lb

MATT Brothers celebrated smashing his pb twice at Berners Hall, Essex, first banking a fish weighing 37lb, then beating it the next morning with a 40lb 2oz mirror (pictured).

39lb

THIS 39lb 7oz common smashed Ste Moran’s personal best by 5lb when he landed it at Ladywood Lakes, West Yorkshire. It fell for a Mainline Link boilie.

STEF Radyimski bagged this 27lb mirror from the Girton syndicate, Notts, using a solid PVA bag containing crumbed Solar Club Mix boilies and a matching hookbait.

32lb

THREE fish to 32lb 6oz was Paul Curwen’s impressive haul from Lancashire’s Clearwater Fisheries. They all fell to 12mm Sticky Pineapple and n’Butyric pop-ups.

48lb

STEVEN Barber used a solid PVA bag approach and a Mainline Cell wafter hookbait at Monks Pit in Cambridgeshire to tempt a bite from this huge 48lb 5oz mirror.

41lb

THIS 41lb common, known as the Big Strawberry, fell to the rods of Terry Frank during a trip to the Abbotts

Syndicate, Herts. He used a Slip-D rig with a Mainline Cell wafter.