With the River Trent regularly carrying extra water recently, Jonathan Holdsworth has been enjoyed a phenomenal spell of zander fishing, landing this specimen of 17lb 15oz alongside numerous other big specimens.
While fishing during the hours of darkness, he noticed that the zander had moved into a certain area of the river.
After a few sessions in which he received tentative taps on his lure, he began to get more positive takes as the fish fed with increasing confidence. Using a 14cm UV shad retrieved ‘low and slow’ along the riverbed, Jonathan landed numerous double-figure fish over the space of a week, capped by the ‘seventeen’.
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Amazingly, when he hooked that fish, he thought that he’d connected with a perch, as it hardly put up any fight at all!
So, when his friend netted it and told Jonathan that he’d caught a massive zander, he was surprised and elated in equal measure!
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