Your top catches of 2017: An amazing year for coarse fish on the fly!
A huge thank you to all our entrants for 2017: the most remarkable year so far for quality catches and amazing variety! In the end it was James MacDonald whose crazy urban barbel from the River Wandle won the day, closely followed by Nick Thomas with an excellent barbel and Matt Roberts in third with a huge river pike of 31lbs; both fish that would have probably won the whole thing any other year! Huge credit for all your entries though, whether or not you won a prize.
Read the story of the 2017 competition and all the best stories here, in the Turrall Flies Blog.
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- A truly remarkable 13lbs 3oz barbel for Nick Thomas! It fell to one of his own well-weighted nymphs.
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- A fantastic reservoir zander of 10lbs 15oz, taken on Paul Monaghan's Frosty Roach pattern, fished on a fast sinking line
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- Bobby Wright had this superb 23lb mirror carp by casting a dry daddy longlegs to it.
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- Matt Healey cradles a beautifully wild Windemere pike of 18lbs 12 oz.
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- Trevor Dyson had this lovely ruffe on a damsel nymph
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- The biggest non-trout water predator we've had in the contest so far: congrats to Matt Roberts for this 31lbs river beauty
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- Jason Williams had this stunning 36lb common carp on a white deer hair mixer.
- Angus MacDonald had this cracking 9lb barbel on a Crazy Charlie. By the time he'd landed it he had quite an audience!
Angus MacDonald had this cracking urban barbel on a Crazy Charlie. By the time he landed it, he had quiet an audience- and one lady onlooker screamed when she saw the size of it!
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- A cracking grass carp for Damian Jones, taken on deer hair mixer
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- A staggering barbel of over 11lbs for Martin Smith
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- Organiser Dom Garnett caught this cracking 2lbs 3oz rudd on a beaded Black & Peacock
Competition organiser Dom Garnett had this wonderful 2lbs 3oz Rudd on a Black and Peacock Spider.
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- Four pound plus chub for Joanna O'Hara
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- Sjouke Soepboer had this cracking 5-6lbs barbel on a yellow nymph, presented under an indicator
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- A Diawl Bach fooled this mullet for Andy Field.
- A fine chub for Martin Smith, estimated at 5lbs plus
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- A canal roach for Angling Trust boss Mark Lloyd, which took a Black and Peacock Spider
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- Russell Penn took this rare fly caught rudd on an simple, unhackled Beaded Red Tag
- Filiep de Clerck caught this fine roach from an urban river in Belgium.
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- A fine river dace for Marcel Karssies, who added roach and trout on the same day.
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- Joe Ryan had this bream as part of an excellent catch from a day ticket lake that also included roach and rudd, all on buzzers
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- A nice river bream for Nick Thomas.
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- Merijn from Holland has been catching plenty of roach and hybrids on his own beaded nymphs.
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- A Thames pike of 23lbs 10oz for Paul Monaghan, fooled with an articulated Deceiver
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- Another Tenkara tamed chub for David West Beale
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- An excellent summer barbel on the nymph for Bobby Wright
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- David West Beale used tenkara tactics for this pretty rudd.
- A cracking chub for TIm Laws
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- Jay Whisker took this nice chub towards the end of the traditional coarse season, on a nymph.
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- A nice sized "gonk" for Paul Williams (we love gudgeon!)
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- Marcel Karssies has been back among the coarse fish. He has many roach to small gold bead nymphs
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- An excellent perch of 3lbs 13oz for Thomas Finney, caught at dusk on a Black and Silver Humungous
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- Oliver Jenkinson with a reservoir zander taken on a Hunmungous at dusk.
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- Andrew Mussellwhite has been amongst the carp in style this year.
- Bobby Wright shows off a nymph caught barbel
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- Dave Keay with a double figure summer pike.
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- Over two pounds of Tenkara caught roach from a millrace, landed by David West Beale
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- Reservoir zander for Thomas Finney
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- Lovely unusual coloration on this reservoir perch, caught on a Blue Flash Olive Damsel by Ian Sheridan.
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- Solid river chub for Jason Coggins
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- Golden orfe from a Devon lake; Martin Herrington had it on a Black Spider.
- Oleg Jeremin with a river zander caught in the Czech Republic
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- Thomas Finney with a hard-fighting carp of 20lbs 12oz
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- Toby Hine had his 6lbs plus chub on a local river
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- 17lbs 8oz reservoir pike for Trevor Gunning- who lost a bigger one on the same day!
- Vincent Ryan with a river chub.