Surrey’s Dave Harman with a huge 10lb 9oz fish from his considerable back-catalogue of specimen Tench! For our many younger readers, Dave won the Drennan Cup in 1999 having enjoyed a truly sensational 1998-99 season, catching several double figure Tench to 10lb 14oz, big Eels to over 7lb, plus specimen Perch… Read more
Review by Drennan’s Stewart Moss Bob and Stuart have put a colossal amount of time, effort, skill and planning into this brand new angling film – and it really shows – because its brilliant! There are 10 ‘acts’ which are essentially self contained sections covering a different trip by either… Read more
Ian Henderson won a weekly Drennan Cup award in Tuesday’s Angling Times with this specimen Stillwater Perch, which weighed in at 4lb 8oz! Ian has done well at the Hertfordshire venue recently and started this particular trip by first bagging a 2lb 2oz Roach! A simple legered Lobworm tail on… Read more
2012-13 Drennan Cup Winner Gareth Goldson visited Drennan HQ in Oxford last week and was presented with the trophy by Peter Drennan. Gareth entertained us all with the story of his incredible season and collected his winners’ prize of £2000 – thoroughly deserved after a fishing year that most of… Read more
Drennan Long Range Groundbait Catapult with balls of groundbait & dead maggots! Those Bream and Tench are gonna love that – photo by kind courtesy of Gary Newman. This workhorse catapult has been a staple item for years, and retails for £9.45. Distances of 50m to 80m can be achieved… Read more
This handsome Tench doesn’t look very happy at being fooled by the Drennan Bloodworm Red Artificial Buoyant Maggots!! Ian used a 45g Flat Method Feeder with a very short Gravel Braid hooklength – which resulted in a screaming take… We think there should have been lots of Tench caught exactly like… Read more