Rager Albert Pretorius reveals how terrible end of season river conditions resulted in a stunning, big perch!

As many of you will know we have our traditional coarse fishing close season - on our rivers - from the 15th of March through to the 15th of June here in the UK. With this in mind I always try and book a week of holiday just before the season closes so that I can fish the rivers one last time before they’re out of bounds. This year, as it turned out, we had the ‘Beast from the East which brought the whole country to its knees with sub-zero temperatures and plenty of drifting snow, all of which would eventually find its way into the rivers and flood them. Not the best situation for my week off…