Like him or loathe him...Phil Bardell would have to be odds-on favourite in any 'book' on Furzton Festival matches having just won his sixth in seven years!
PROBABLY lower than in '76 and beset with pollution, abstraction and predators – the drought-stricken upper Ouse has hardly been chub-fishing heaven of late.
Upper Ouse fish died by the thousands as a huge toxic 'slug' crept downstream from Brackley, through Buckingham, towards MK this week – killing most things in its path!
Some determined people have clocked up a month of blanks in pursuit of a Bradwell carp but Mitchell Ridgeway suffered only one – before landing a 19-2 common at his second attempt!
Paul Andrews quest for a big bream – a REALLY big bream – finally bore fruit on Bradwell when he netted what most would call the fish of a lifetime...a 14-15 mega-slab!
