WITH RAY ROBSON.

SPARKLING CATCHES.

If the reports I've had this week are anything to go by then we are in for some sparkling form from our stillwaters during the three months enforced close season on the rivers.

Dave Allport took girlfriend Emma Gardner along when he decided on a 24 hour session at Brittons pond at Guildford but it turned out to be a case of the pupil teaching the teacher. Emma, from Hazelmere, banked that venue's most famous resident in the form of a beautiful ghost carp that tipped the scales at 26lb 5oz. The fish is not only a personal best but gives Emma her third 20lb plus carp.

Paul Denman used liver boilies at peg 26 at Horsham's Whytevane pond to account for a superb 25lb 10oz common while on the same water at peg 29 Grant Davis took six carp. All the fish fell to boilies with the best being a 23lb 7oz mirror.

Just to round off the old season in style comes a report of a terrific catch taken on the last day.

New Malden angler Dave Ball decided on one last trip with the barbel rods on his favourite River Wey and was rewarded with a fabulous 12lb 13lboz specimen.

It must be one of the biggest barbel ever caught from the River Wey and handed Dave a new personal best when it couldn't resist his home made paste.

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