Fresh from netting an end-of-river-season PB barbel – 9-3 from the Wye – all-rounder Jamie Boomer was out on Furzton getting his 'summer' campaign underway.
The Ouse was popping-out big fish like they were going out of fashion at the weekend – perhaps a sure sign that the start of the rivers close season is only a week away.
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!
