At the start of September, the Southwest Trade match returned to the very venue it first started back in 1992, Shearwater Lake on the Longleat estate in Wiltshire. For the last 25 years, South-West Drennan sales representative, Dave Drake has been involved in organising a match for the benefit of my… Read more
Ray Cutler from Bewdley landed this impressive 16lb 12oz barbel from the River Thames during a three-day session.
The three day Thames Festival was fished by 74 anglers from around the country, at Abingdon, Culham and Appleford. “With the river very clear and with very little flow it was always going to be feast or famine for many anglers. It was great to see most areas improving by… Read more
West Midlands based Dave Turner landed this impressive 15lb 8oz zander on his recent trip to the River Severn. Dave caught his personal best zander on a small bleak dead bait. “We anchored the boat up and cast the dead baits out and waited. After around 30 minutes the tip of my… Read more
Drennan Oxford match angler, Mick Denton fancied a change from his match fishing and recently and joined a few locals anglers on a trip to France. Whilst the carp fishing was slow, Mick decided to ‘ring in some changes’ and laced his Blakes Baits halibut pellets and Krinella Boilies with… Read more
The 1st of the three big Upper Thames matches started with the Turner 400, thirty teams of four spread from Grafham lock down to Tadpole. “The match was fished in wet and windy conditions which probably helped as the river was very clear with little flow. The team match was… Read more
