Team TackleTek - Meet Ray Clarke

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Meet Ray Clarke

Many of you would have heard of Ray Clarke as he currently holds the British Roach Record, that wonderful Dorset Stour beauty of 4lb and 3oz. Ray has been active within the world of angling, writing articles for the media to help us mortals to improve our fishing skills and to help us catch that fish of a lifetime.

I first started fishing when I was five years old, being taken to a local lake by my older brothers.

The first fish I remember catching was a roach, so to end up catching a record roach really was a dream come true. Fishing is not all about catching record's, I get as much fun seeing friend's catch fish as I do catching fish myself.

My three son's Tom, Ben and Jack are all very keen angler's and have had impressive catch's including carp up to 34lb.

I like to target different specie's of fish at different time's of year, both on river's and lake's. I make some of my own float's and used to make my own rod's.

As well as the record roach I have also brought to the bank the following fish:

Barbel 14lb 5ozs
Dace 1lb 1oz
Chub 5lb 10ozs
Perch 4lb 9ozs
Pike 25lb
Tench 9lb 2oz
Bream 9lb 15ozs
Carp to 34lb

Ray Clarke's Record Roach - 4lb 3oz

Ray is the angler to help you achieve this

It is fair to say that I have spent many years on the bank side building up my angling knowledge and now hopefully through TackleTek I am looking to put more back into the angling community. I have plans to write more angling articles this year for the angling media and view working with TackleTek / Lineaeffe as just part of the process of achieving my goal.

Ray and that beautiful roach. Ray can help you to beat his own record

Son Tom at 14 with 29lb 4oz common carp. Ray derives a great deal of pleasure watching others achieve their angling dreams

Click here to read about Ray's fishing trips