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A local gravel pit yielded this tinca for Jan Porter.

Tench quest begins

JAN Porter started this seasons quest for a big tench with the capture of this 5lb fish from his local gravel pit. The 58-year-old matchman turned specimen hunter, whose previous best for the species is 8lb, fished a paternoster rig with a large Drennan mesh open-ended feeder filled with Dynamite Baits Swim Stim groundbait. Jan completed his set-up with a 0.16mm hooklink attached to a size 16 barbless hook baited with chopped worm, caster and three red maggots. l Visit the GoFishing YouTube channel to watch the full My Life In Angling interview with Jan Porter.

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How old were you when you first went fishing, and who took you? I was 11 and I went with my stepfather.

Bob Roberts has done it all, but stick float fishing remains his first love.

What was the first fish you caught? It was a perch of maybe 4oz, which cut me with its gill cover.

Pike mans trout shock

SIMON Brough had a welcome surprise when he landed this 12lb 8oz brown trout while flyfishing for pike at his local game fishing venue. The owner of the Pike Shack guiding service in Matlock, Derbyshire, was already having a successful session, with the capture of a 15lb 8oz esox when his artificial offering, cast close to willow trees, was taken by the specimen trout. Simon Broughs 12lb brownie. Ive caught loads of trout while flyfishing for pike in the past, but Ive never had anything like this so it was a great result, Simon told Angling Times.

Who was your fishing hero that fuelled the fire in the early years? First Richard Walker, then Kevin Ashurst and Tom Pickering.

atchman, magazine editor, specialist DVD maker, columnist for the Sport newspaper, Bob Roberts has done the lot, and all while holding down a proper job in engineering.
In this weeks My Life in Angling, the Doncaster all-rounder reveals how one of his opinions prompted a trip to the local police station

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Do me a favour, write three articles, just for me. So I did. Next thing he was on the phone saying: First one goes in next month. From that day forward there has never been a month when I havent been in a fishing magazine. You are known for your sometimes controversial opinions. Does this bother you? An opinion is only controversial if you dont agree with it. I do make some quite outrageous statements, but 90 per cent of people agree with me. The internet has given a platform to every idiot in the world, and if Ive offended anybody on the internet through my views, its because they deserved it. I went on Keith Arthurs Tight Lines

What fishing venue have you spent the most time at in your angling career? The Trent, a river thats had many incarnations over the years. Whats your most memorable catch? Probably a huge sturgeon we caught on the Fraser River, even though it was foul-hooked! Is there anywhere you have always wanted to fish, but havent? I really want to have a crack at the Amazon.

What made you turn from being a successful match angler to being more of an all-rounder? I was an all-rounder before I was a match angler. I only started match fishing because I couldnt find swims to fish on the Trent at weekends. In those days the river was packed with matches. and the only way to get to fish it was to become a match angler.

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and said, based on my underwater observations, that most barbel anglers dont feed enough. One individual was incensed by this. He wrote to Sky complaining about me, he wrote to my sponsors headquarters in Japan and he even went to the police and reported me. I had to go to the police station and explain myself. They paid him a visit and hes quietened down now.

whether we could make a commercial DVD, with two people on screen talking to each other. Next we added underwater footage and created our very first film, and that led us on to our latest project, Caught in the Act, which is something Im incredibly proud of.

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How did you get into making angling films? Ten years ago I started doing some adventure travel with Stuart Walker and we started filming these trips for the memories. Later, I wondered

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You skippered the Goldthorpe squad. What were they like? Russ Fowler, who had Goldthorpe Angling Centre, handpicked the best club anglers and we won the Division 5 National against 107 teams of 12. We won our second National as well. Back then you needed to be far more versatile than today, learning new skills every year.

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What interests do you have outside of fishing? Travel, photography, cooking, reading, music and theatre.

Where did you make your name as an angler? Colin Dyson, editor of Coarse Angler magazine, asked me to write a column about club match fishing. At that time the two people who were writing about match fishing were Kevin Ashurst and Ian Heaps. Well, I thought, how can I write in that magazine and be taken seriously? So I turned him down and a year later he came back and said:

Youre a columnist for the Sport newspaper. How come? They contacted me through my website to ask me to write a column. A lot of their readers are anglers and they wanted a column from a respected angler who would provide varied content with technical detail. I couldnt turn it down its all about spreading angling into a wider market.

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