Terry Hearn with a 2lb 14oz Thames System Roach – one of the most majestic photographs of the season to date! Tel caught the Roach using double maggot on a size 18 Drennan Wide Gape Match spade end hook, in conjunction with a tiny bomb – after catching a whole… Read more
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Daniel Gale’s 20lb Southern Stillwater Pike
Thank you to Daniel Gale for sending us this picture of a 20lb 8oz Pike from a Southern Stillwater caught on Drennan 7-Strand Wire. “I have to say that the big girls have eluded me but I have had lots of smaller fish, 24 at last count up to 16lb!… Read more
Lee Chatfield’s River Roach Haul on Acolyte Ultra Rod
Lee Chatfield kindly sent us these terrific river Roach pictures – all caught using one of our 14ft Acolyte Float rods. Lee fished a southern river using a Stick float and bread punch hookbaits (one of his favourite methods) for a Saturday session last month in company with Matthew Tann…. Read more
Bruno Rogers Thames Chub on Home-Made Float!
Local Oxford young angler Bruno Rogers did well recently in wet windy weather and on a high coloured River Thames to catch this big Chub. Bruno used a home-made flat float to present a Worm hookbait on a size 12 Drennan Wide Gape Specialist hook – the fish weighed a… Read more
Keith Speer’s 3lb River Roach
Hertfordshire angler Keith Speer with a spectacular 3lb river Roach caught using one of our Super Specialist hooks! The specimen Roach came from one of Keith’s local rivers and deservedly won a weekly Drennan Cup award in Angling Times recently. It was outwitted by trotting a single red maggot on… Read more
‘The Power Of The Last Hour’ by Stu Conroy
Following a recent match at Partridge Lakes, England ace Stu Conroy explains the ‘Power Of the Last Hour’! At this time of the year the last hour or two will often be the most productive. Fish that have been almost dormant in the swim for most of the day become more active… Read more