We’ve read this week’s Anglers Mail from cover to cover this week and couldn’t help but comment on an excellent issue. From Pete Reading’s quite stunning 7lb 6oz Chub photo on page 3, John Bailey’s end of season river report to Gary Newman’s brilliant Angling Adventures – there are some… Read more

This action photo is taken from the Drennan Oxford team practice on the Kennet & Avon canal last weekend – and shows popular team member ‘Bubbles’ playing a very large fish which gave him the run around for quite some minutes! Half way through the practice session Bubbles (as he’s… Read more

Ashley Burton equalled his own personal best Barbel at the weekend with this 15lb 2oz whacker!  Ash has been having success baiting up in the evening and then fishing at dawn – this one coming at 7.30am during a testing period when lots of weed and debris was coming down… Read more

Drennan’s Stewart Moss has been fishing hard in the evenings after work since the turn of the year, generally twice a week, with the hope of catching a 7lb Thames Chub.  With conditions mild and very favourable over the past week or so, and with Chub generally being at their… Read more

Drennan’s Ian Brooker spent an after work session on the River Thames for Chub for last week. Using his usual approach of Series 7 Avon/Quivers, FD 4000 Reels & 8lb Supplex line. It took a little over two hours to get his first bite which turned out to be this… Read more

We enjoyed Gary Newman’s Angling Adventures column in the Anglers Mail 21st February – which illustrates that even the very best and most dedicated anglers blank sometimes! Gary travelled all the way up to Lancashire for his first trip on the famous River Ribble, in company with Martin James.  Unfortunately,… Read more