Congratulations to our 2014 Winner, Fergus Kelly, whose metre long grass carp takes top spot. In joint second, Sam Edmonds and Matt Roberts share honours for a 30lb 12oz pike and huge Chew perch respectively. Well done to them and all our other entrants- another exciting and highly varied year!
2014 Gallery
- A stunning metre long grass carp for Fergus Kelly, on a large dry Adams. One word from us: WOW!
- An even bigger chub for Michael Dorr, at 5lbs 15oz, this time on a corixa
- A cracking 4lb tench for Andy Grey
- Is it a coarse or game fish? We don’t care- Paul Unsworth’s 3lb 2oz grayling is a beauty!
- This fine roach fell to Vladimirs Grigorjevs size 12 Black Pennell.
- Jim Fisher’s 17lb grass carp took a Bonio- great catch!
- Gary Edmonds with a rare and noteworthy bitterling on a tiny pink nymph (he has caught an incredible 122 species on the fly!)
- Daryl Wilkinson took this common carp on an egg fly.
- Phil Dixon tempted this 15lb Sleighford Lakes mirror on an Apps Bloodworm
- One of several bream caught on buzzers in shallow water by Paul Sharman
- Size isn't everything: a pretty gudgeon taken by Marcel Karssies
- Geoff Hadley strikes again! Our 2013 winner had this fry chasing 3.5lb bream on a damsel
- Thomas Finney's 23lb common carp, on a Bonio
- Marcel Karssies had this dace on a small gold bead nymph
- A cracking 30lb pike for Sam Edmonds
- A carp of 16lbs, one of several caught by Geoff Hewett using buzzers
- Andy Lush with a Bewl rudd of 1lb12oz on a dry mayfly
- A cracking canal chub of 3lbs12oz, caught by Martin Smith
- Rob Darby took this pound plus rudd on a flying ant
- A rudd, taken just under the surface on a Spider
- Nick Gough took this lovely 10" dace on a spent mayfly.
- 7lb chub came from the famous Throop fishery on the Stour. His own "secret" nymph did the job (we did try twisting his arm!)
- A fantastic 17lb common carp for John Turner, taken on a red nymph.
- Used an elk foam dragonfly to land this 12lbs 5oz common carp.
- A Dutch Aspe of over four pounds, taken by our pal Sjouke Soepboer on a home tied streamer pattern.
- Daryl Wilkinson had this lovely pike of fifteen and a half pounds on a yellow baitfish pattern.
- Another Barbel for Sjouke Soepboer, from the River Meuse in the Netherlands.
- Sjouke Soepboer (Netherlands) beat this amazing 9lb barbel on a heavy nymph and indicator set up, using lead shot to keep the fly down low.
- Miguel Candeias took this well marked pike on a red and white Deceiver
- What a plump chub!
- Another fine chub for Jamie Smith
- River pike
- A fine river perch, well over the pound mark for Jamie Smith
- Martin Ferrett took this cracking 2lb 15oz perch from Chew Reservoir. He saw it take once and miss but the fish had another go and it proved second time lucky!
- Matt Roberts took this sensational perch of 4lbs 2oz from Chew Valley Lake. Epic!
- Michael Pryor caught this fine 2lbs 8oz perch from a southern Chalkstream. It took a good sized pike fly!