Young Oliver Jenkinson, aged 14, from Bedfordshire has enjoyed a spectacular season, catching big fish by design on a really consistent basis! The culmination of hard work is this quite superb Chub weighing 7lb 2oz from the Ouse system, which won him a deserved weekly Drennan Cup award in Angling… Read more
Category: Drennan Cup
Steve Bown’s Incredible River Severn Zander
Solihull predator specialist Steve Bown caught this incredible 19lb 5oz monster Zander from the River Severn recently, thoroughly deserving a weekly Drennan Cup award in the Angling Times last week. Steve has caught numerous huge Zander in the past, and used a float-legered dead Bleak bait on 20lb Drennan trace… Read more
Dougie’s Beautiful Bream
Paul ‘Dougie’ Douglas – manager of Carping Capers in Northampton and Northampton Specimen Group member – won a weekly Drennan award in Angling Times for a recent catch of specimen Bream! Following a number of blank trips to a tough Nene Valley Stillwater, Dougie hit the jackpot when he landed… Read more
Gord Burton’s Scottish Pike
The ‘Piking Pirate’ Gord Burton won a weekly Drennan award in last week’s Angling Times with this tremendous 34lb 14oz Pike. Gordy rates this fish as the highlight of his angling career, having put a lot of effort into targeting a vast Scottish Loch for the resident Pike over a period… Read more
Wyn Jones Specimen Scottish Roach
Hertfordshire’s Wyn Jones won a weekly Drennan Cup Award in Angling Times for this massive Scottish Roach, which weighed in at 3lb 2oz. Wyn presented red maggot on the hook tied to a 0.16mm Silstar Match Team hooklength, and fished it over a ‘Spombed’ area of hemp, corn, maggots and… Read more
Ian Henderson’s Specimen Hertfordshire Perch
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