By his own admission, Liam Searle doesn’t know if he’ll ever be able to top his six-day trip to Furzebray Island Lake in Devon, a session that not only yielded his first two UK 40-pounders but also culminated in a stunning mid-thirty mirror on his birthday.

What a year Ashley Jones is having! Only three weeks ago, he was celebrating a new personal best with a mega 34lb 4oz mirror from Churn Pool in the Cotswolds – but that PB didn’t last long.

Kai Scales opened his account for the year on Grendon’s Hope Lake syndicate with a mega 37lb common!

The Manor Carp Fishery in Hampshire is somewhere we are going to be hearing a lot about this year, as not only does it hold the largest fully scaled mirror in the UK (as recently caught by Mozza), it is also now available to fish on an exclusive booking basis!

The Bug keeps on doing the business for James Smith wherever he takes it!

Paul Baskerville has opened his account on a notoriously difficult syndicate with a beast of a fish, a classic old mirror known as the Big Girl weighing in at 42lb 10oz.