GEORGE Mason has spent many years fishing at Cambridgeshire’s mighty Grafham Water, but his target of a 15lb zander had always eluded him… until last week, when he landed this 17lb 10oz cracker!
George was using vertical jigging tactics in 50ft of water, and received what he described as a subtle bite before he hit into what felt at first like ‘an immovable object’.
Eventually he managed to get the fish off bottom and steadily draw it towards the waiting net, and said the sight of it when it first surfaced almost made his heart stop!
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