WEDNESDAY
The news is out. The massive bream weighed 18lb 9oz and wascaught by Kerry Walker on two grains of sweetcorn a rod’s length fromthe bank. It was, as we reported last Sunday, taken from a NorfolkAnglers Conservation Association pit, 29 acre Lodge Lake on theBawburgh complex, which belongs to RMC.
Kerry told Angling Times: “I’m still on cloud nine. You neverreally expect to break a record, the feeling is brilliant.”
The full story can be read in this week’s AT.
SUNDAY, 9PM
Latest info is that the bream weighed 18lb 10oz and was caught by oneof the bailiffs on the NACA water on popped-up sweetcorn.
SUNDAY
Details are sketchy just yet but we are reliably informed that thebream record has been shattered with a fish weighing in the region of18lb 8oz.
We believe that the captor has agreed to an exclusive with one ofthe angling weeklies hence the lack of details creeping onto thegrapevine, but we have been told that the huge slab was captured by acarp angler from a Bawburgh gravel pit.
Bawburgh lies close to Norwich and the gravel pit is controlled byNACA, the Norfolk Anglers Conservation Association.
Martin Whitmore from Quorn, Leicester captured the present recordbream, weighing 16lb 12oz, from East Midland’s water, SwithlandReservoir.
