Kevin Righton and Marc Walker catch personal bests

Kevin Righton caught a personal best 28lb 15oz common carp at an Oxfordshire lake. He used Mainline’s NRG frozen readymades and fished to an island margin at 30 yards range where he scattered 15 freebies. He presented his 18mm hookbait on a size 8 Wide Gape, a Hybrid hookline and a 3oz Korda Inline lead.

At the same location Marc Walker caught a personal best 26lb 4oz common carp. He fished to an island margin at 30 yards range with a single Mainline NRG boilie presented on a rig including a size 8 Korda Wide Gape, a Hybrid hookline and a 3oz Korda lead.

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The Righton Family fish together

On a family fishing trip to the Whelford Pools at Fairford Gloucestershire the Righton family came up with some big fish.
Rose-Anne Righton landed a leathery mirror carp weighing 16lb 8oz caught with a single tiger nut fished over a bed of mixed particles.

Brother Anthony went one better and landed a 17lb 2oz mirror carp using a Fusion boilie fished over a particle mix. These catches gave dad Kevin a challenge and he came up trumps with a 27lb 8oz mirror carp to show the kids whose boss. Kevin fished with a Tutti Fruti pop-up on a Withy Pool Rig over 5kg of Parti-Blend.

Whelford Pools is a family run day ticket water, situated in the South Cotswolds on the A417 between Lechlade and Fairford. Set in a beautiful location it is home to a wealth of large,Mirror, Commom and Leather Carp, Tench,Perch,Roach, Pike and Bream. It is noted as one of the top day ticket fisheries in Gloucestershire.

www.whelfordpools.co.uk

Another article about Kevin:

Ebrington Angler just misses out on the British record for perch

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Kevin Righton catches a perch weighing 5lb 2oz

Kevin, from Ebrington Gloucestershire, caught the perch in a local private lake. The current British record for perch is 5lb 15oz so the fish was only 13oz short of the record.

The lake itself is spring fed water and was stocked some four years ago with various species including carp, small roach and rudd and three female perch around the 1lb mark which have now grown to a near record size.

He caught the fish by ledgering with a big lobworm in one of the lake’s lily beds.

He catch won him Shimano Catch of the Month and a Shimano Mission Badge in the September 2007 issue of “Improve your Coarse Fishing”who commented “…This magnificent specimen - one of the biggest Mission entries we have ever received - …

www.improveyourcoarsefishing.com

Shimano Plc have more than 80 years’ experience in one of the world’s most demanding sporting and leisure markets - bicycles, where gearing and engineering to the most exact tolerances is essential. They have been involved in fishing tackle since the early 1970s.

“It’s up to you to tempt the fish to your bait, safe in the knowledge that your Shimano precision engineered kit will perform to the required standards over and over again”

www.shimano.com

Kevin is no stranger to large fish having had his picture in the Crafty Carper Magazine in January 2007 for catching a 25lb carp and winning another badge.

www.carp30plus.com

www.anglingpublications.co.uk

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