Today is the last official practice session for Drennan Team England and the other 25 nations involved in the European Championship. The venue this year is the Lage Vaart Canal in Almere, Holland, which has been used several times in international events. This basically translates as the Lower Level Canal, so… Read more
Author: Jack Reid
Well Done Jack
A belated well done to Jack Damant who fished really well to win the 2016 Fish’O’Mania Junior event at Cudmore Fishery. Sixteen-year-old Jack from Ipswich won with 17.2kg, which included a healthy variety of species including carp, F1s, ide, barbel and skimmers. A great performance earned him £1,000 and the all-important Junior… Read more
Huge Rudd On First Trip
All-round angler, Matthew Fernandez from Southampton managed to slip the net under two personal best rudd during his first trip to a new venue. “With nothing to really go by on the signs of fish, I dropped in a swim on the end of a fresh wind. I located a… Read more
Supplex Fluorocarbon For Chub
The near-invisible properties of 0.13mm (2.6lb) Supplex Fluorocarbon helped Brian Gay fool this wily old chub from a local river. The angling journalist and film maker caught the fish in 18 inches of gin-clear water, using single maggot on a size 19 Kamasan B711 hook under a 1.2g Crystal Waggler. In Brian’s… Read more
Townsend Tames The Thames
Steve Townsend won Round 2 of the Oxford Summer League with a quality 42lb 9oz catch of bream and roach. The event saw seven teams of six on the Medley and Folly sections of the River Thames. It was a warm, blustery day with plenty of swimmers, dogs and boats,… Read more
Russian Carp On The Method
Sergey Kuzmin from Russia has caught his best-ever carp at 14.75kg (32lb 8oz) with Method Feeder tactics. The fish was caught on a 35g Flat Method Feeder with Dynamite groundbait and a plum-flavoured pop up. He used 0.23mm Feeder & Method Mono to an 8lb Carp Dacron hooklink and a… Read more