This superb photo shows Watford’s accomplished specimen angler Stuart Court bending into a big Roach at dusk on a vast Scottish Loch (Lochnaw) using a Series 7 Specialist Avon Quiver 12ft 1¼lb rod. The picture was kindly supplied by Kent Shimano Consultant Darran Goulder, who got in on the action… Read more
Alan Scotthorne reveals the secrets behind the marvellously titled ‘pongo’ feeding method in the May issue of Match Fishing, which hits the newsagent shelves today! There is also a closer look at Alan’s fantastic readymade AS Pole Rigs, which we think surpass anything else that’s currently out there! Elsewhere in… Read more
Well done to young Samuel Claydon who managed to finish 5th overall in his first ever Junior Festival, fished at White Acres Holiday Park in Cornwall. He used a mixture of meat and chopped worm tactics on the pole combined with the pellet and Method feeder on the rod and line to… Read more
Thank you to Jack Pells from Surrey for pictures of some early Spring Floater-caught 20lb Carp. “I noticed that the carp on my local club water seemed to be moving around on the top lately so I popped over there to do some floater fishing and managed to trick a… Read more
Surrey’s Dave Harman sent us this picture a few weeks back, his final big Pike of the Winter. This lovely fish weighed 21lb 15oz and came on a Sardine deadbait presented on E-Sox Extra Strong Trebles. Dave enjoyed a good Winter predator fishing, including specimen Perch from the Thames and then a 32lb… Read more
This week’s Angling Times has a special feature celebrating 30 years of the Drennan Cup – arguably the most sought after and prestigious specimen angling prize in the UK! There is also a live test with the all-new Drennan Acolyte Plus 13ft match rod. For anyone after a stepped-up three-piece float rod, the… Read more