Ryan Hayden with his new personal best 6lb 4oz Chub, caught from the Dorset Stour last week. On a freezing cold day, Ryan fished a simple link leger rig utilizing Grippa Stops on 6lb Supplex mainline to make a sliding link, with a 1/3 oz weight just enough to hold… Read more
Category: Catch Reports
Danny’s Specimen Barbel Hat-Trick (plus a big Chub!)
Danny Spring enjoyed an extraordinary specimen Barbel hat-trick recently, and added a big Chub for good measure. Danny now lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland and made the long journey down to fish the Ouse System, but it paid off with Barbel of 11lb 15oz, 10lb 3oz and 9lb 9oz. He then… Read more
“One Of The Finest” Barbel Photos!
We have to say, this picture from London Specialist Carl Welch is one of the finest Barbel photos we’ve seen all season, deservedly winning a Drennan Award in this week’s issue of the Angling Times. After prebaiting one of his local stretches, Carl push-biked back to fish on a very… Read more
Gary Newman’s Wonderful River Evenlode Roach
Gary Newman with a wonderful river roach of 1lb 15oz from the River Evenlode, taken from his excellent 4-page Angling Adventures article in this week’s Anglers Mail magazine. The article details Gary’s recent trip with Drennan’s Stewart Moss to a club stretch of the little Thames tributary, in poor conditions… Read more
Drennan Supplex Line
Cadbury Angling’s Andy France Wins Commercial Match with Bream Weight
Cadbury Angling sponsored angler Andy France with some of a tremendous bag of Bream & Skimmers to win a Shiplate Farm Fishery Winter League match recently. Andy’s quite remarkable match weight was over twice the weight of the runner-up, despite not catching any carp at all! Many of the field… Read more