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And this is what he had to say…

I went to Bradley Pond last Sunday morning, got there for about 7am, only took about two casts - half an hour for my first fish, which turned out to be the biggest of the day a 10 oz Crucian. The sun was a bit bright to start with but shouldn’t of complained. After 10am I had cold, wind, rain and hail for the next 4 hours and very little on the bite front.  At about 2pm I had a nice bite and thought I was into a good fish but it turned out to be weed and a small Skimmer around 6 oz. Great venue, poor weather!

Both Bob and Tim have opened their Fish n Trips accounts this week with some nice fish.

Bob sent this report:

I fished at butterswood, goxhill - right near the train
tracks.  I got 2 Carp both about two and a half pound, two Tench about a pound and
a half and two Rudd 4-8 oz.  All on a garbalino flatbed method feeder, micro
pellets and corn hook bait on a hair, with maybe an additive or two, think next
time will be better now i have a feel for where to fish it.  Might try bradley
again soon.  Sounds like it has picked up, went in early september and not much
good.

Thanks to Bob for his pics and report.  You can click on any pics to enlarge them.  I particularly liked the blood red colouring on his Rudd’s fins.  Gorgeous colour.

Tim sent this report:

Had a trip to Snitterby today and what a day it was! Got there at 6am got 3 rods out for half past, first fish 5 to 7 - 15 and half caught on legered Polan.  Then went quiet for a bit then had something sniffing on my paternoster float with small trout on, 15lb nicely marked fish, then it did go quiet for awhile about 11am I moved my other float up a bit flicked it out only to see it scream off down river bang 19lb beautiful fish caught on eel section.  Then nothing for awhile then float went again hit it but it pulled out felt like a nice fish packed up at 12:30 so all in all a good mornings fishing when you no were to go ;)

So thanks to Tim for his pics and report - which has given me an idea for a new feature on the Fish n Trips page.  I’m going to add a % of the record feature for our biggest fish.

In simple terms if you catch a 10lb fish of a certain species  whose British Record is 20lb you’ll score  50% of the record.  If you catch a 15lb fish of the same species you’d score 75% of the record.  I’ll do this for all of our best specimen fish caught during the Fish n Trips Challenge.

So to start the ball rolling Tim will hold the Pike top spot for now with a 19lb fish.  The Brirish Record Pike is 46lb 13oz.  This gives Tim a Pike Record Rating of 40.58%

Another reason I thought it would be nice to add is because Garry Ornsby caught a monster Carp this week also.  The story and pictures will follow, but his Carp was independently weighed and verified at 17lb 4oz.  This gives Garry the Carp top spot with a Carp Record Rating of 26.19%

These fish and the new % Record Ratings have been added to the Fish n Trips page above.