Despite the famous Throop fishery on the Dorset Stour being just a few minutes’ bike ride from where he lives, Gary Wright has spent most of his time over recent years targeting other, free stretches of the famous southern waterway.
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But this season he joined Ringwood & District AA, which has Throop on its books, and has wasted little time in getting among the venue’s biggest residents – as this huge 18lb 3oz 8dr barbel shows!
The mighty fish, which sets a new barbel record for the river, fell to a Klips boilie hookbait fished alongside a PVA bag of pellets. Gary said it put up a superb fight, running hard downstream and hugging the riverbed during a protracted battle.
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