Have been fishing since I was 5 starting on river Cherwell & Oxford canal. Used to be a keen match angler at both open and club level. Now I prefer choosing my own swim targeting specemens (hopfuly).
First choices being chub and barbel on rivers. Tench and carp on still waters.

P.B's
Chub.
Cherwell: 7lb 2oz
Windrush 6lb 10oz
Wey (surrey) 6lb 4oz
Blackwater (hampshire) 6lb 1oz
Dorset Stour 7lb 12oz
Sor Brook 6lb 9oz
Warks Avon 5lb 14oz
Great Ouse 6lb 5oz
Thames 5lb 10oz
Swere (oxfordshire) 5lb 8oz
Itchen (hampshire) 6lb 6oz

Barbel.
Cherwell 9lb 8oz
Windrush 8lb 0oz
Warks Avon 8lb 6oz
Dorset Stour 7lb 12oz
Wey 9lb 6oz
Thames 8lb 14oz

Common Carp.
Heyford lakes 31lb 8oz
Mirror Carp.
pit nr Aldershot 27lb 12oz
River Carp.
Cherwell 18lb 0oz
Thames 26lb 4oz

Tench.
Heyford lakes 12lb 2oz

Pike.
Compton Verney 19lb 8oz

Bream.
Heyford lakes 12lb 12oz