Inside the brand-new issue of Angler’s Mail – in shops today with a stunning perch on the cover and 30 venues to target perch inside – we have a February feast of big fish, top tips and great features to give you that fishing fix whilst the country is fighting floods.

Highlights include:

• Chew shakes record again with 44lb 6oz pike

• Licence boycott slammed

• Shropshire venue produces 49lb 4oz common

• Angler sets up huge charity auction

• First winners of Korum Specimen Cup announced

• Where To Fish features then usual venue round-up plus a special focus on perch with 30 venues to try on your next session

• Colin Davidson shows how to tie and use an adjustable zig rig

• French monster carp venue Rainbow produces 84-pounder for Brit

• John Bailey on how to connect with more fish on the strike

• Gary Newman, who features on the cover, heads to Kent in search of perch

• New JRC bivvy on test

• Favourite deadbaits detailed

• Matrix seatboxes revealed in Product News

• Lead ejection debate rumbles on in Letters

• On Tour sees Welsh maestro Ron Cousins bagging

• How to catch quickly during short sessions in All the Answers

• Fishy fungus facts

• Korum 1 Man Carper bivvy launches

• New free Korda DVD reviewed

• Essential Knowledge covers main lines

• Secret Lives discusses nesting fish

• Match results and Preston Innovations Matchman of the Year leader board