Sussex angler Simon Buckman got his river season off to a flier with this huge, and majestic 15lb 12oz Barbel from a Southern river swim that he’d taken the trouble to pre-bait for several days beforehand. Simon rightly won a weekly Drennan award in last week’s issue of Angling Times… Read more
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Adam Harman – A Match Star for the Future?
Team England ace Stu Conroy has sent us this picture of Adam Harman, 15, from Cheshire with a fantastic match-winning net of fish from one of his local waters. It may look like a typical bag from a commercial fishery, but was actually taken at Ackers Pit – a Warrington… Read more
Mark Turner’s fabulous River Anker brace
Thanks to Tamworth angler Mark Turner for this fabulous River Anker brace picture – a superb start to the river season on his local river with a 13lb 9oz Barbel and a 5lb 2oz Chub! Mark used a large Drennan Gripmesh feeder to deliver a heavy method mix groundbait to the… Read more
Phil Smith’s Beautiful Scottish Roach
Phil Smith is one of several top notch specimen anglers to have made the effort to travel all the way up to Scotland to fish for its stunning roach – coming up trumps with this beauty! Despite difficult wet & windy conditions, where the lake level rose considerably during the… Read more
Steve Hemingray on Drennan Team England International Duty (Part 2)

As previously described, Steve Hemingray travelled over to Merida In Spain recently, to take part in practice for the European Championships on the Guadiana River. This photo shows a mixture of Carp and Carasio caught on the Pole at 13m. With the Pole fishing Steve used a Drennan Icon 13m… Read more
Simon Ashton’s Stunning Brace
Simon Ashton with a mouthwatering brace of monster sized Roach – without doubt one of the most stunning photos we’ve seen for a while! This fabulous photo adorns the front cover of the current issue of “Improve Your Coarse Fishing” magazine – and was actually taken by Mick Rouse (it… Read more