Coventry’s legendary big fish angler Phil Smith caught this quite beautiful Common Carp from a midlands canal last week – in quite extraordinary circumstances! Phil had embarked on a trip to fish for Silver Bream – a quarry which demands quite some finesse, and so set up with a Drennan… Read more
Taking commercial tactics onto our canals is nothing new, but for me on the Stainforth canal at Thorne, its something that I have not really considered before because Bloodworm & Joker have always dominated my tactics on the venue. Due to adverse weather conditions on the continent Bloodworm & Joker have been in short… Read more
On a recent small midweek competition at Lindholme Lakes I had the perfect opportunity to try out a tip Drennan’s Gary Barclay had told me about concerning hollow elastics. Now to say I had been having a bit of mare with the green hollow is an under statement! I love it… Read more
