(THIS CATCH WAS REPORTED BEFORE THE END OF THE RIVER SEASON ON MARCH 15TH)
On a trip out with his dad, 13-year-old Harry Hayward landed one of the rarest ‘big fish’ in Britain – a clonking dace weighing 1lb 2oz!
He was fishing a tributary of the Thames with a swimfeeder, using a maggot hookbait and introducing liquidised bread and maggots, hoping for a few quality silvers.
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“We’d been plagued by tiny roach, so he cast further downstream and into deeper water,” his dad, Duncan, told us.
“The tip tapped and he connected with what seemed a better fish. I waded out to pick it up, assuming it was a small chub, but when I realised it was a massive dace, I shouted to Harry to grab the net!”
Throwing his rod into the margins, Harry picked up the net and safely landed the prized fish.
“It dwarfed a few I caught here the previous week and is a phenomenal fish – he’s a jammy git!” Duncan added.
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