Roach (Rutilus rutilus) Weight: Small fish up to 1lb are commonplace and a fish of over 2lb is seen as a specimen. 3lb fish are rare from rivers, but a number of southern stillwaters regularly throw up quality fish close to the 4lb barrier. 4lb-plus fish are very rare. British Record: 4lb 4oz from undisclosed […]
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Huge 3lb 5oz roach falls to carp angler’s ‘wafter’
Highbridge Fisheries in Norfolk has thrown up another of its giant roach, this 3lb 5oz beauty which fell to a carp angler. Sean Jackson was fishing a shrimp flavoured 15mm ‘wafter’ bait and had just cast out after landing a double figure carp when the big redfin, thought to be one of the biggest caught […]
Suffolk Lake produces massive roach just 1oz under the British record
Norwich angler Ken Fuller has banked the biggest roach from England in living memory and a fish just an ounce below the British record at 4lb 3oz. The truly magnificent fish, reported in Angler’s Mail this week, came from Homersfield Lake in Suffolk, a water where roach seemed to have thrived on bait put in […]
Huge roach from tiny stream realises lifetime ambition for Mike Davison
Drennan sales representative and big fish angler Mike Davidson landed this fish of a lifetime after making a last minute decision to fish a local chalk stream. “Recently I was lucky enough to achieve a lifetime ambition of mine by catching my first 3lb roach from a river,” said Mike. “It weighed in at 3lb […]
Giant 3lb 11oz roach from Highbridge Fisheries
Norfolk’s Highbridge Fisheries – famed for its elusive specimen roach – has thrown up another of her giants in the shape of this beautiful 3lb 11oz redfin to big fish ace Dan Woolcott. The Kent angler, who had spent long hours mapping the venue out when the water was low in summer, baited up with hemp, […]
