“On a trip to Newstead Lake in Nottinghamshire I was fishing the margins for carp, using a Method feeder and a worm hookbait, when all of a sudden my 10ft feeder rod bent round as I received a really decent bite.
“I struck and found myself attached to what initially felt like quite a big carp, but as the battle wore on I wasn’t so sure, and began to wonder what it might be on the other end.
“I could feel the fish thumping away down deep and thought it might have been a tench. However, once it surfaced, I realised that it was this huge perch, which tipped my scales round to 5lb 2oz!”
<strong>Ronnie Ahad – 5lb 2oz perch</strong>