Having only succeeded in catching a sea trout during a recent session fishing for Chub at Shopham Ian Mintram had quite a surprise when he hooked into this superb 15lb Barbel. The specimen put up a terrific fight on Ian’s chub gear.
This was a second PB from club waters for Ian having previously caught a PB Bream from the Arun earlier in the season.
Whilst fishing with his Dad Daniel on one of our stretches of the Rother young Max Winslade hooked and landed this superbly marked Trout.
Another Barbel for Brian Hooper but from Fittleworth this time and weighing in at 15lb 2oz
Brian Hooper with a cracking Coultershaw Barbel weighing in at 15lb 14oz
Gordon Reay has had some memorable catches at Petworth Park this Summer with bags to 45lb plus that contained Bream to 5.5lb and Tench to 4.5lb.
None pleased him more though than when he landed this PB Crucian Carp of 2lb 15oz
Apart from Crucian Carp being present in the lake Gordon has witnessed several Common Carp to 15.5lb landed there too.
Enthused by the July monthly report indicating there were some big roach in the Arun being caught at Watersfield Ian Mintram decided to fish for them.
Although Ian failed to connect with any of the bigger roach he did manage to net this PB bream of 7lb 3oz.
Club Treasurer Martin Cornish reckoned this splendid 14lb 9oz Rother Barbel ‘gave the most amazing fight with several strong runs with the clutch working hard.’
Martin had to give the specimen fish plenty of time to recover before releasing it to fight another day.
Stephen Gray did extremely well to land this superb 14lb 6oz Barbel on tackle meant for Chub during a recent session on the Rother.
Stephen had already landed six decent Chub when the specimen Barbel picked up his upstream legered bait, he knew immediately that it wasn’t a chub and had to play it carefully before netting it.
Scott Morley had this 17lb 7oz Common in an early morning session from Coultershaw.
The fish is a new river carp PB for Scott.
Rob Symonds pictured here with a nice Tench from Petworth Park Lake.
Rob had the Tench on his very first visit to Petworth Park where he also landed some good sized Bream.