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.
This 3lb 1oz specimen roach was the pick of a three-fish haul for Shirley, Southampton-based Kit Holt during a visit to Sway Lakes, Hampshire. The other two weighed 2lb 5oz and 2lb 2oz. The redfins, plus a 24lb 4oz carp and 6lb 8oz tench, fell to15mm Mainline Activ-8 boilies.
Dorking, Surrey-based junior Adam McGinnis kept it simple to lure this personal best carp off the top during a trip to Bean Lake in Newdigate. The 25lb lump fell to a freelined piece of bread fished on 10lb line.
Lincoln-based Ben Walker hit the jackpot on his first cast during a trip to Conningsby, Lincolnshire when this 10lb 4oz bream latched onto his fake-and-real-corn bait combo on the very first cast. The fish is a new personal best.
A cocktail of a tutti fruitti and a spicy shrimp and prawn boilie in conjunction with a PVA bag of freebies lured this personal best 5lb 2oz bream from Holwell Hyde in Welwyn Garden City for Baldock, Hertfordshire-based Ben Jones.
Aldershot, Hampshire-based Steven Snape’s homemade scopex boilie was top of the menu as far as this 6lb 7oz tench was concerned. The personal best tinca came during a session on Cemex Angling’s Yateley South Lake.
Big roach are developing a taste for boilies, as Blandford St Mary, Dorset-based Judith Potts discovered during a trip to Pallington Lakes. This 2lb 10oz redfin, a new personal best, took a liking to a hair-rigged Fusion boilie fished close to an island.
Big tench thrive in small estate lakes. Reading, Berkshire-based Darren Broadhurst’s 8lb 2oz specimen was taken on a session on a private lake near Newbury. The fish fell to a 12mm Shellfish B5 boilie presented 10 feet from the bank.
A visit to Brickyards Fishery in Ripon, North Yorkshire resulted in this 2lb 5oz roach from Chilton, County Durham-based David Hall. The personal best fish fell to double red maggots fished over loose-fed white maggots.
Paisley, Renfrewshire-based Gavin Postlethwaite lured this 18lb 4oz predator from his local park pond. The pike is a personal best for the 15-year-old and fell to a legered mackerel tail.
This 10lb ghost carp took a shine to Newton St Faith, Norwich-based 11-year-old Callum Gould’s honey-flavoured boilie presented over a bed of crushed halibut pellets and hemp. The personal best fish came from Hingham Lake in Norfolk.
Hitchin, Hertfordshire-based Larry Giblin travelled to Breakaway Fisheries in Suffolk and was rewarded with this personal best 21lb 12oz pike. The big predator fell to a roach livebait presented in the margins.
There’s nothing false about this personal best 10lb tench taken by Epsom, Surrey-based Barry Cushing except for the bait he used, as the fish fell to two hair-rigged artificial casters. The fish was caught on a private Surrey gravel pit.
SPECIMEN BADGE WINNERS
25lb, Adam McGinnis, Dorking
26lb 8oz, Peter Alberry-King, Cambridge
20lb, Scott Coats, Bedford
40lb 12oz, Peter Bromwich, Chemsleywood
20lb, Paul Keenan, Hull
27lb 8oz, Wayne Bell, East Sussex
20lb 6oz, Adam Green, Rotherham
20lb, Jonathan Ducker, York
32lb 2oz, Ben Walker, Lincoln
22lb 8oz, Gary Budd, Bath
26lb 8oz, Michael Stanton, Walsall
23lb 2oz, Carl Welch, Feltham
18lb 9oz, John Vale, Harborne
1lb 4oz, Andrew Gibbins, Leyland
1lb 14oz, Ben Scolori, Maidenhead
2lb 1oz, Hayden Pyser, Billingshurst
6lb 1oz, Ryan Nicholls, WakefieldBADGE WINNERS
4lb 7oz, Matthew Nettleton, South Ferriby
4lb 6oz, Ian Knight, Corse
3lb 9oz, Jack Field, Bournemouth
14lb 3oz, Steve Pugh, Oswestry
13lb 4oz, Loraine Rutter, Dover
16lb 6oz, Jonjo Elliott, Leicester
16lb, Ian Knight, Corse
10lb 9oz, Martin Gibbins, Leyland
15lb 6oz, Andrew Hitchen, Chorley
19lb, Liam Crosswell, Swanmore
10lb 1oz, Mike Smith, St Albans
14lb 8oz, Michael Waring, Chorley
13lb 8oz, Michael Jones, Bootle
1lb 12oz, Andrew Newall, Harrogate
10lb 8oz, Michael Penn, Cleator Moor
11lb 6oz, Sam Hillman, Northwood
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