HORTON CHURCH LAKE

Horton, home of the British grass carp record for so very long, has done it yet again with the capture of this absolute stunner of 39lb 2oz. Whist scales have yet to be officially checked the fish is certain to smash the previous best of 36lb 8oz which was taken from the fishery by Colin ‘Gaylord’ Nash last season.


39lb 2oz British Record Grassie

The new record was taken by 35-year-old Tackle Box employee Kev Ballard from East Grinstead who fished the One Up swim on the 14-acre fishery.

Big Fish Mix
Kevin presented a Nutrabaits cranberry Big Fish Mix boilie on a stiff-hinged pop-up rig over a bed of Dynamite Baits Frenzied Hemp and crushed tigers and beat the fish on 12lb Daiwa Sensor line.

At first Kevin thought he had a hooked a big bream as it did not fight until it got to the margins – where it went “mental”.

The fish was witnessed by RMC Angling Assistant Manager, Viv Shears and former British grass carp record holder and Horton Head Bailiff, Del Smith.

A 40lb specimen is now on the cards from the fishery… watch this space!

TENCH TIME


Adrian Smith with a 9lb 9oz tench
The big tench have really started to feed around the RMC Angling venues in the past fortnight and some excellent fish have been reported from Ryemeads, Papercourt and Horton Boat Pool.

Ryemeads
Ryemeads has probably been the pick of the bunch with three different double figure specimens up to a new venue record weight of 10lb 8oz. Plenty of back-up fish have bee showing at the venue too with 15 fish over 9lb reported.

The main lake has produced all of the doubles with the best specimen from the Stile Lake one of 9lb 14oz. Maggot, boilie, bread and worm are all scoring.

Boat Pool
Top fish to date is a specimen of exactly 10lb to Chris Hull and Adrian Smith banked one of 9lb 9oz in part of a haul which also included several tench over 7lb and a dozen bream over 10lb.

Papercourt
Opened on 16 June with three different fish topping 10lb and plenty of back up fish in the 6 to 9lb range and is looking good for the coming weeks.

ABBOTTS LAKE

Tony Lewis has set a new carp record for the Abbotts Lake on the Stanstead Abbotts complex with the capture of Maylin’s Fish at a new top weight of 41lb 15oz.


Tony Lewis with ‘Maylins’ at 41lb 15oz
Tony took the fish at 4.30am with a fluoro pop-up fished on a stiff hinge rig at 20 yards range from swim number 2.

Big Common
Also scoring on the 30 acre lake recently was venue regular Barry Dyson who took a new personal best common in the shape of this stunning specimen scaling 32lb 8oz.


Bazza’s big common
Barry fished at close range from the Point Swim with a Tails Up boilie over a bed of 4-5 kilos of free offerings.

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