Total Coarse Fishing - Korum Challenge

Rewarding you for your special catches.

Here at tcf we're anglers as well, and we know how fantastic you feel when you slip the landing net under that special fish.

That's why we've teamed up with Korum in this great series in which we'll be rewarding your efforts and giving you something to remind you of the day for years to come.

The Prizes
The sender of the catch tcf deems to be the most noteworthy each month will be the Korum Challenge Angler Of The Month and along with a badge and cap will receive £300 of Korum gear and have their catch story and picture printed here and on our website. There are also two runners up prizes of £200 and £100 of Korum gear for the next best entries, also shown on this page. All three anglers will be invited to our annual Korum Fish In (see below). We will print the names of all the anglers who achieve one of the 16 Korum targets and they can look forward to receiving the relevant metallic pin badge through the post. We will also cherry-pick a number of entrants to have their catch pictures published. Each of these Gold Award winners will be sent a special Korum cap, as well as the badge.

Korum Fish In
The Korum Angler of the Month plus the two runners up each month will be invited to a special annual Korum Fish In, where they will join top anglers from the Korum team and have the chance to fish for some amazing tackle prizes at one of the top big fish waters in the land. The first Korum Fish In will take place in the autumn of 2008.

Brian Greed
specimen barbel badge

This outstanding 16lb 7oz barbel is one of the biggest fish to come from the Hampshire Avon. It is captor, Swindon, Wiltshire-based Brian Greed’s first-ever whiskers and it was caught on legered bread! The venue was the Royalty Fishery in Christchurch, Dorset.

Morecambe, Lancashire-based Peter Woodcock fished a large lobworm on float tactics close to an island to lure this corking 4lb 4oz perch. The personal best was taken while on a visit to Littledale Lake near Lancaster.

This super 28lb 6oz pike couldn’t resist Waltham, Lincolnshire-based Phil Taylor’s spiced-up half mackerel deadbait offering during a recent visit to a stretch of the River Ancholme. The big predator is a personal best.

Bournemouth, Dorset-based junior Sam Church had to wait until 3am for this personal-best 20lb carp to take a liking to his legered boilie over mixed pellets tactics. The fish was caught from Ringwood & DAA’s Northfield White Lake near Ringwood Hampshire.

Colchester, Essex-based John Rose tempted this personal-best 5lb 6oz chub with two 10mm Source boilies on swimfeeder tactics. The fish came from the River Kennet on the Wasing Estate in Berkshire.

Upper Norwood, London-based Geoff Dennis waggler-fished a maggot-and-corn cocktail over a bed of groundbait to tempt this 6lb 3oz bream. The personal best was taken during a trip to Holwell Hyde in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.

A trip to the Middle River Trent at South Muskham, Nottinghamshire saw Retford-based Gavin White bag this cracking 14lb 4oz barbel, the only bite of a four-hour evening session. The personal best fell to Sonubaits 11mm soft halibut pellets.

Fourteen-year-old, Essington, West Midlands-based Jack Barnes lured this corking 3lb 6oz perch during a trip to his local Spring Hill Farm Lake. The personal best fell to a bunch of maggots fished close to a patch of lilies.

Redditch, Worcestershire-based Shaun Chaney picked the right tactics to tempt this personal-best 18lb 9oz mirror carp. The fish was caught on two 10mm pellets wrapped in passed fish in conjunction with a small PVA bag of pellets.

Nine-year-old, Shrewsbury, Shropshire-based Billy Wood almost lost this personal-best 5lb 2oz chub when an otter took a shine to the fish while he played it. The fish was taken on a 8mm monster crab-flavoured boilie from a local stretch of the River Severn.

First-time piker, 16-year-old, Romford, Essex-based Charlie Cutts broke his duck with this super 18lb 6oz pike. This fish and a smaller 10lb 7oz fish were taken on sprat deadbaits during a trip to Lakeview Angling Club’s lake near Clacton-on-Sea.

Aveley, Essex-based Dean Farmer netted a personal best when this chunky 20lb 2oz mirror carp took a liking to his strawberry boilie hook bait. The fish was taken on an inline lead set-up during a session at Kennington Park.

SPECIMEN BADGE WINNERS

BARBEL

15lb, Daniel Wood, Maidenhead
9lb 6oz, Andrew Tasker, Warwick
11lb 8oz, Paul Coombes, Retford
9lb 5oz, Thomas Wood, Shrewsbury
12lb 3oz, Barrie Yarrow, Aldershot
10lb 5oz, Doug Povey, Reading
10lb, Sean Bate, Chester
8lb 2oz, Tony Grey, Woodbridge
12lb 14oz, Zac Ingram, Bracknell

BREAM

6lb 4oz, Gavin White, Retford
11lb 12oz, Paul Williamson, Rotherham

CARP

25lb 4oz, Jack Barnes, Essington
20lb 4oz, Ruel Simpson, Gloucester
22lb 2oz, Gregory Monk, Basildon
26lb 2oz, Dan Hawkes, Canterbury
20lb 2oz, Steven Self, Basingstoke

CHUB

6lb 1oz, Paul Coombes, Retford
6lb 14oz, Steve Martin, Welton
5lb 5oz, Oliver Heasman, Kinson
5lb 4oz, John Wood, Shrewsbury
5lb, Gavin White, Retford
6lb 2oz, Anthony English, Gloucester

PERCH

3lb, John Henton, Begelly
3lb 10oz, Mark Kelly, Doncaster
2lb 12oz, Ben Mackenzie, Kingsthorpe
2lb 12oz, James Eaves, Rixton
3lb 5oz, Joseph Barlow, Newbury

PIKE

25lb 3oz, Tom Taylor, Cleethorpes
32lb 5oz, Anthony English, Gloucester

ROACH

3lb, John Slater, Earlswood

TENCH

6lb 3oz, Charlie Stewart, Gunby

BADGE WINNERS

BARBEL

5lb, John Wood, Shrewsbury
8lb 3oz, Shaun Chaney, Redditch

BREAM

4lb 13oz, Reece Warrender, Cleethorpes
5lb 2oz, Ryan Keeley, Liverpool
3lb 14oz, Tom Breakwell, Birmingham
3lb 10oz, Dan Hawkes, Canterbury

CARP

11lb, Anthony English, Gloucester
13lb 4oz, Dawn Cater, Dagenham
12lb 4oz, Jordan Newman, Filton
15lb 9oz, Harry Leggett, Kelvedon
12lb, Kyle Lindley, Rugby
13lb, Charlie Cutts, Romford
14lb 2oz, Conner Emery, Mansfield
14lb 6oz, Tom Breakwell, Birmingham
11lb 3oz, Peter Towler, Newton Aycliffe
15lb, Graham Carter, Peterborough
10lb, Kasey Leet, Leicester
11lb 2oz, Matt Crossan, St Leonards on Sea
11lb 8oz, Richard Hardwick, Louth
11lb 4oz, Darin Tarbin, Colchester

CHUB

3lb 8oz, John Wood, Shrewsbury

PERCH

1lb 10oz, Barry Peck, Meriden
2lb 2oz, John Richmond, Norwich
2lb, John Rose, Colchester

PIKE

13lb 8oz, Les Parsons, Polegate
10lb 5oz, Charlie Cutts, Romford
13lb 3oz, John Blake, Lowestoft
9lb 4oz, Joshua Pritchard, Essington
10lb 2oz, Des Giddings, Reading
8lb 4oz, Steve Dockerty, Barrow-in-Furness
10lb 9oz, Tony Gray, Woodbridge

ROACH

1lb 7oz, John Rose, Colchester
1lb, Will Hayston, Cullompton
1lb 7oz, John Rose, Colchester

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Competition Rules

Each entry must be sent using the form on this page (Or a form from tcf) and include a photograph of the catch, preferably of the angler holding the fish. Entries sent in with no photograph will be deemed null and void.
Photograph MUST be 2 megapixels minimum in size, and saved in the jpg format (File extensions can be .jpg or .jpeg). Larger the image, the better for magazine printing. No phone pictures.
Each entry form must include the name and contact details of an independent witness.
Each badge can be awarded only once to any one person – there are 16 to aim at.
You must send in the form within two months of the capture of the fish.
Badge awards are subject to entries being approved by the tcf team. The editor’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
DHP takes no responsibility for lost or mislaid photographs.

Agreement of Rules:

I have read, understood and agree to abide by the above rules.

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