The only bite of Jackie Proud’s first eel fishing session of 2017 produced this 6lb 10oz personal best. She fished a roach head tight to an island at a local still water in Bedfordshire when the huge fish made an appearance. It was beaten with 12lb mainline, a size 3… Read more
This 17lb 2oz bream was the biggest of a haul of big ‘slabs’ from a gravel pit in Northamptonshire. Andrew West from Kettering also netted fish weighing 13lb 8oz, 12lb 10oz and 11lb 10oz, when he fished a hair-rigged boilie tipped with a grain of imitation corn over a bed… Read more
Dai Gribble was guiding tench fishers group member Eddie Court on Kent’s Medway Valley Fisheries when he managed to land this impressive 10lb 5oz tench! Dai got into a fish himself the following morning with the capture of a specimen weighing 10lb 5oz which he tempted after recasting his rigs… Read more
A huge congratulations to Iain McDonald who has been voted the 2016/17 Drennan Cup winner! With five weekly Drennan Cup Awards under his belt, Iain’s dreams came true as he took a comfortable win with 53 points separating himself and second place. He said: “The fact that my name will be mentioned in… Read more
Dutch specialist angler Hans Moolenaar has been catching plenty of tench this spring. “My eyes are normally set on large bream at this time of year, but with the bream not showing, countless tench are keeping me busy,” he explains. Hans has been using a 56g In-line Flatbed Method Feeder fished on 6lb Feeder & Method Mono with… Read more
Stu Lennox demonstrates how to target one of the nation’s favourite species with a Method Feeder approach. For me, spring is synonymous with tench fishing and catching tench is synonymous with a nice, big weedy pit. One such place is the beautiful Napton Reservoir in Warwickshire. This lovely 17-acre pit is now run… Read more
