Last year’s Drennan Cup runner-up, Dan Woolcott got off to a flying start this season, banking a brace of 3lb 8oz roach last month earning his first Drennan Cup weekly. He has now backed this up with his second weekly award with this stunning 12lb 6oz tench which was part… Read more
A single bite during a 48-hour session has produced the biggest tench reported this season – this 12lb 6oz specimen falling to the rod of Trevor Pole on a large Cambridgeshire gravel pit.. Fishing at 80-yards, Trevor introduced a mixture of caster and maggot with a spomb and fished rubber… Read more
Having spent the last three years targeting a ten-pound tench from a Hampshire estate lake, Tom Randall managed his target recently with this 10lb 12oz specimen.. Previously, he’d managed four fish over the 9lb mark, and on the very session in which he landed the double, he’d lost another big… Read more
Big eels are known for their fighting qualities, and this 6lb snake certainly lived up to their reputation when Alan Jump connected with it in the early hours of the morning. Targeting a stillwater in North Devon, Alan fished a dead roach on a Dyson Rig, a size 4 hook… Read more
After signing off the river season in style with the biggest brace of chub in history, Alan Stagg started his spring stillwater campaign in the same scintillating fashion this week by catching the biggest bream of the year so far. This scale-perfect 18lb 4oz fish was taken on an overnight… Read more
Whilst southern stillwaters generally produce the biggest bream, Leicester angler Lee McManus proved that specimens can be caught further north with this 16lb 14oz slab from a midlands gravel pit. Lee has great form with the species, reporting huge bream near enough every season. This fish was caught over a… Read more
