56lb stunner makes one angler's big day one to remember.

Sometimes fishing can give you perfect moments, and for West Sussex carper Elliot Golds, a 48hour session on his local venue Menards Carp Fishery delivered just that.

Targeting the venue’s 6acre water, Elliot was celebrating his 30th birthday while on the session and had a present to remember in the form of this 56lb 14oz mirror.

Known as Buttons, the fish fell for an 18mm Mainline Cell boilie fished to an island from the water’s peg 4.  A bed of 15 and 18mm freebies was laid down, before a rig comprising a size 6 hook to a hooklink of 15lb ESP Ghost fluorocarbon fished on a helicopter rig was cast over the top.

It was a set-up that also accounted for two other smaller fish of 19 and 20lb each.