BYT strikes again!

Solar consultant Simon Crow chalked up his first Yorkshire thirty of 2009 when he slipped the net under this 30lb 6oz old warrior. The 38-year-old from Brough in East Yorkshire (a northern region of the UK) tempted the scaley mirror using his ever-faithful BYT ready-mades.

He revealed: “Fish of this calibre are great targets for northern UK carpers as they're quite rare up here, and it was a wonderful memory catching it. I watched it chugging along at 30 yards range only moments before it went down and picked up my hookbait. I’d baited a silty depression with a dozen 24mm baits, offering my hookbait on a size 6 X-Wide Gape hook and Flexi-Ring Swivel.”

The mirror came during a very short early morning three hour trip from a difficult estate lake which contains no more than 20 carp. Crowy had spent a lot of time watching the fish in the build up to the trip, and put his result down to perseverance and quality bait.