THE BIGGEST TENCH OF THE YEAR! - float caught giant tops mega spell for fans of the species.

This was the headline in Angling Times that threw Chris Netto into the angling limelight. Attending as a steward at the Tenchfishers 2025 Tench Championships held at Linear Fisheries Chris stayed on for a few extra days. After a fruitless 24 hours bar a tiny Jack pike Chris nearly packed up and went home, but after chatting to fellow tenchfishers decided to persevere and stay on overnight. The rest as they say is history with Chris catching the largest float caught tench on record.

Listen to Chris tell Joff of his early days in angling and how he progressed through meeting the right people to become a multi species angler who is equally at home in salt water, modern LLF fishing or with a fly rod in his hand.

Plenty of other anglers get a name-check in this episode:

• Tony King

• Chris Turnbull

• Tom Critchel

• Peter Rolfe

• Gary Boyce

• Mike Simmons

• Dean Bradshaw

• Graham Elliot

• Ben Kennedy

• John Fox

• Stuart Stevens

• Adam Bojar

• Les Bamford

• Steve Chambers

• Graham Elliot

• John Fox

• Stuart Stevens

• Paul (a friend from Farnham angling)

• Ian Roper

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Keen on tench? Listen to episode #6 where I speak to Phil Jackson of The tenchfishers.