Despite the April Showers, big Tench are feeding! Chris Taylor proved this when caught this massive male Tench, which weighed in at 10lb 3oz from a Kent gravel pit, winning a weekly Drennan Cup award in the Angling Times recently. Chris fished a three-day session and fooled the fish with… Read more

Drennan’s Midlands Sales Agent Paul Dolman is a very keen & experienced Salmon angler, and he used his weekend to travel up to Scotland recently, to fish the River Tay in Perthshire at a location called Islamouth. Paul took a few fish including this beautiful ‘Springer’ – that is a… Read more

Thanks to Cotswold Angling’s Kev Hewitt for the following news item and photographs. Fishing for the forces is a non-profit organisation founded by Bill Howell with the aim of providing a peaceful days angling for anyone who has been affected by operational duties, and there was no better venue than… Read more

This is the famous Drennan Cup – the biggest prize in specimen angling!  The superb plinth is engraved with all the details of the past winners and runners up dating back around 20 years – a real ‘who’s-who’ of specimen angling heritage.  We’re expecting the Angling Times to announce the… Read more

Des Taylor has found a really interesting way to outwit the specimen Perch in one of his local stillwaters – fishing into complete darkness!  Des has been using a Drennan Insert waggler, which readily accepts a 99p Drennan Nightlight when darkness falls – allowing him to carry on float fishing… Read more

England international Richard O’Connor got amongst the bream on a recent visit to the Gloucester Canal.  The Drennan-backed former Six Nations Champion fished eight inches overdepth with multiple bloodworm hookbaits on a size 16 Polemaster Competition hook to a 0.10mm (1lb 14oz) Double Strength hooklength and a no6 to 8 Hollow Core Bungee… Read more