The Drennan Over 50’s three-day Festival hosted at Westwood Lakes saw 108 anglers compete for their name on the trophy. Day One The first day produced some big weights from each of the four lakes used Skylark, Swallow, Osprey and Falcon. On Osprey lake, Mick Stamp put 188lb 8oz of F1s… Read more
This year’s Angling Trust Ladies National was fished at Weston Pools; with Belvedere, Stretton and Weir Pools hosting the competition. The conditions were favourable with it being warm and overcast, this resulted in plenty of fish being caught between the 42 competitors. “I managed to catch 43.555kg of carp on… Read more
A three-day expedition targeting specimen eels paid off in fine style for Dean Aston when he slipped the net under this impressive 6lb 6oz specimen. It was the only bite of the trip for the 48-year-old painter and decorator from Wolverhampton, but one that he would never forget. Speaking to… Read more
A string of specimen crucian carp catches, topped by a 4lb 4oz monster, suggests that there’s no better time than now to get out and target one of the nation’s favourite species. Whilst some of the country’s anglers have been struggling to catch during the current heatwave, those who have… Read more
Drennan Oxford recently fished the Evesham team qualifier on the River Avon. The team had enjoyed quite a bit of success in the previous weekends running up to the event, so they fancied a good result. “Stephen Townsend drew peg 11, Tom Hobbs on peg 36, Steve Harwood on 56,… Read more
With the summer sun heating the upper layers of stillwaters and rivers there is currently no better time to target surface feeding species such as rudd. Angling Times has had reports of several amazing catches of big rudd in the past month with the pick of the bunch this week… Read more
