Eleven year old schoolboy Dean Rawlings, using a float set-up on carp gear and multi-coloured maggots, has broken the perch record with a fish of 5lb 12oz.
Dean borrowed the gear from his dad and fished an undisclosed Oxon day-ticket water. The pool is less than an acre in size and the owner is concerned that undue pressure from bounty hunters could ruin the fishing on the typical commercial carp fishery.
Dean, from Bicester, Oxon, admitted he was only fishing for small carp. He will be one of the youngest anglers to have broken a British record.
You can see a picture of the fish and read the full story in this week’s Angling Times.
The current record at 5lb 9oz was netted in 1985 by John Shayler from Furnace Pond in Kent.
