You may recall young angler Logan Thomas catching a brace of 1lb dace on the opening day of the season, well he has gone one better, breaking his PB with this 1lb 3oz fish.
Opting to fish the same chalk stream he had the monumental brace from, Logan fished very similar tactics, trotting a float with maggots as his choice of hookbait.
"After the last big dace Logan had six weeks ago, we decided to get back down to the same river," Logan's dad, Jason, told us.
"Using the same tactics, we caught fish from the first cast, banking over 10 dace from 5oz upwards."
"One thing Logan does is dust his maggots in Krill and Squid groundbait, it really seems to get the fish feeding," Jason added.
"After having plenty of action, Logan hooked a much better fish that we thought might have been a roach to begin with, but we were in shock when a huge dace surfaced."
"We weighed the fish on two separate scales to be sure, and they both read 1lb 3oz, which blew us both away."
"Upon examining the fish, we don't think it was the same dace that broke his PB previously as its mouth was slightly damaged and healed in a different area."
"If it was a separate fish, it just shows how many big dace are in this stretch of river as it is his third one over 1lb in six weeks, which is truly unbelievable," Jason concluded.
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