Swan goes big with a massive mirror

There have been some cracking fish on local banks this week – including a 47lb carp and a 12lb tench!

Fishing an MK area lake saw GoneFishin co-owner Richard Swan lit-up like a lighthouse over the capture of a massive mirror.

And when the scales finally steadied, the monster known as The Big Girl had taken them all the way to 47-8. And Richard was still as high as a kite almost a week later.

But only a few miles away another man was also living the dream. Although he'd been after carp, that made Chris Hamilton's 12-1 tench none the less of a dream fish.

It came from Beacon AC's Mount Farm and was hooked close in to the banks. Chris said: "I don't think it knew it was hooked, I thought it was a bream at first. It felt big. I couldn't believe the size of for a tench."

ANOTHER big tench – certainly by river standards – fell to young Callum Webb on Olney's section and weighed in 7-11, just short of the club's record. Matt Tysoe had a 6-7 and Josh Spearman a 5-6 from Olney's sections.

CHUB are being caught from the Ouse and Ouzel with Matt Jones getting some medium-sized fish on both fly-tackle and with a light tipping set up. On the Ouse around Stony Andrew Wojcik had perch to more than 2lb using lures.

ON Furzton Joe Weir was well chuffed at boosting his PB by almost 10lb with a good-looking 26lb mirror while Zsolt Janisak a 24-pounder. Tom Bromhead – who had had some nice commons from Tear Drops – moved on and caught two 15s and a 23-5. On Newport's pits Mark Levitt had carp to 24-9.

Russell Smith had his first MKAA waters carp, a nice 9-8 Wolverton Mill common. John Frost had a nine and Stefan Clark's young nephew had a ball with smaller samples on the pole. Bradwell is still producing good tench and bream.

TOWCESTER Vets, Barby: Dave Brench 41lb, Les Ramsden 36lb, Graham Martin 29lb.

MK Vets, Tear Drops: Paul Chapman 21-6, Ernie Sattler 17-10, Martin Cunniffe 14-15.

CALVERT, Itter's Pit: Ben Holdaway 14-6 (silvers), Nigel Steel 7-6, Mark Penwell 6-4.

BLUNHAM open, Willington Ouse: Nigel Porter 10-13 (inc three chub), Paul Reynolds 10-8 (inc two good chub), Mark Pollard 10-2 (silvers).