Rick Golder is certainly no stranger when it comes to catching big fish and features regularly within our catch report pages. Since discovering the awesome pulling power of the B5, Rick has caught an enviable amount of very big fish from a variety of different waters, and his latest success has resulted in this magnificent 41lb 2oz personal best common, which was caught on the first morning of a 48-hour session from a Berks syndicate water.
The big common was caught at day-break following a very cold night when temperatures dropped to -4 c, during which Rick also banked a 32.8lb mirror and lost another forty at the net!! As you would expect, the Shellfish B5 was responsible for the flurry of big fish action after Rick had introduced 2 kilo’s of 16mm’s to a silty depression at 60-yards. Rick added a further 28.6 common before leaving the following day and was the only one to receive any takes during this time.