The only bite of Jackie Proud’s first eel fishing session of 2017 produced this 6lb 10oz personal best. She fished a roach head tight to an island at a local still water in Bedfordshire when the huge fish made an appearance. It was beaten with 12lb mainline, a size 3… Read more
This 17lb 2oz bream was the biggest of a haul of big ‘slabs’ from a gravel pit in Northamptonshire. Andrew West from Kettering also netted fish weighing 13lb 8oz, 12lb 10oz and 11lb 10oz, when he fished a hair-rigged boilie tipped with a grain of imitation corn over a bed… Read more
Dai Gribble was guiding tench fishers group member Eddie Court on Kent’s Medway Valley Fisheries when he managed to land this impressive 10lb 5oz tench! Dai got into a fish himself the following morning with the capture of a specimen weighing 10lb 5oz which he tempted after recasting his rigs… Read more
A huge congratulations to Iain McDonald who has been voted the 2016/17 Drennan Cup winner! With five weekly Drennan Cup Awards under his belt, Iain’s dreams came true as he took a comfortable win with 53 points separating himself and second place. He said: “The fact that my name will be mentioned in… Read more
The capture of one of the biggest tench of the year shows why many anglers are now targeting the species in search of a new personal best. Dan Gale had a patient approach to thank for helping him to fool this huge 11lb 12oz specimen. After finding an area of… Read more
Ian McDonald’s first eel fishing session of the season produced his biggest-ever fish caught by design weighing 5lb 6oz. After hearing stories of anglers being ‘smashed up’ by big eels at a club lake in the South of the UK, the Kent-based all-rounder took some fish heads out of his… Read more
