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Pre-Season 2016/17

A new piece of David Miller art dropped through the letterbox a couple of weeks ago signalling a new season is coming. And although I haven't wet a line for the past month my campaign is kind of already underway.

Instead of accumulative target weights of fish I am planning on spending the next season (or two) trying to improve my rather average Personal Best list. Research has begun on where I can find my target species - and the aim is to improve on 10 of them this year.

Below is my current PBs, along with the record for the species and my percentage of the record - this highlights the softer targets - bloody bream! The eventual aim as to get as many over 50% as I can, but any improvement is a win.

Species	PB	Record	%
Barbel	12lb 4oz	21lb 1oz	58%
Bream (Bronze)	5lb 3oz	22lb 11oz	22%
Carp (King)	20lb 2oz	51lb 8oz	39%
Carp (Crucian)	2lb 9oz	4lb 10oz	55%
Chub	5lb 2oz	9lb 5oz	55%
Dace	0lb 10oz 4dr	1lb 5oz 2dr	47%
Eel	2lb 11oz	11lb 2oz	24%
Gudgeon	0lb 2oz 11dr	0lb 5oz	54%
Perch	2lb 4oz	6lb 3oz	36%
Pike	25lb 4oz	46lb 13oz	53%
Pike (Stillwater)	17lb 0oz	--	--
Pike (Canal)	15lb 0oz	--	--
Roach	1lb 12oz	4lb 4oz	41%
Rudd	1lb 1oz	4lb 10oz	22%
Ruffe	0lb 2oz	0lb 5oz	40%
Tench	6lb 4oz	15lb 3oz	41%
Zander	9lb 1oz	21lb 5oz	43%
Grayling	2lb 1oz 8dr	4lb 4oz	48%
Trout (Brown)	4lb 15oz	--	--
Trout (Rainbow)	4lb 0oz	--	--

I will still do any opportunistic fishing that presents itself - can resist a bit of barbel bashing. I have a couple of trips planned with my Dad & brother, the first targeting perch, the second targeting sharks. And me and James are praying to the Weather Gods for the good winter river season that we missed out on last time...

Difficult challenge this season - can't wait to get cracking!

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