Coventry’s legendary specimen hunter Phil Smith with a quite magnificient Tench from a Colne Valley gravel pit caught during May, which weighed 10lb 5oz! Phil found a nice clear gravel area amongst Canadian Pond Weed with a marker rod, approximately 40 yards out, which he baited with a method mix… Read more

An account of the Ladies National Championship, by Julie Abbott, which was fished this year at Holly Farm in Leicestershire.  “After a couple of practice sessions I’d formed a rough plan and knew that in order to do well I needed to draw on Trotters Pool to be in with… Read more

Top all-round specimen angler Terry ‘Theo’ Theobald has been a friend of Drennan International for a number of years now, and has a brilliant new book out, which is titled “A Year On The Water”.   Drennan’s Stewart Moss purchased a copy on release, and read all 300 odd pages in… Read more

Drennan’s South East Sales Representative Mike Davidson joined Gary Newman for a tench session at Peckham Lake in West Sussex recently, as featured in Gary’s excellent “Angling Adventures” column in Anglers Mail issue dated 22nd May. Unsurprisingly these two top-notch anglers bagged a whole series of fine tench with several… Read more

Norfolk angler Chris Turnbull was delighted with this cracking Crucian Carp, since it is the first true Crucian he has caught in his home county for over 15 years!  The fish weighed in at 2lb 2oz and though not a monster, was a “perfect peach of a fish”. Chris used… Read more