The first Oxford DAA match of the season held on the River Thames saw Mick Denton win with over 60lb of pole-caught bream. Faced with a clear river, thick weed and scorching sunshine, plus countless swimmers and boaters, no one was sure if the fish would feed. Thankfully, the bream were still responsive with some… Read more
Specialist angler, Jamie Cartwright caught this impressive bream during his latest session on a large gravel pit. “I arrived for an overnight session to find a group of fish milling around off a point swim I had fished previously. So I fired out a couple of loose boilies towards the… Read more
Ryan Hayden caught this lovely female tench at the weekend after preparing the swim for over an hour prior to fishing. The keen specialist angler revisited a small gravel pit at the weekend to fish for tench and was greeted with masses of weed covering the majority of the lake. He selected… Read more
Stu Lennox explains how to use scaled-down carp tactics to target specimen bream in this week’s Angling Times. A pair of trusty Specialist Distance Tench & Bream Mk2 rods enables him to reach the bream shoals that patrol at range. To learn more, check out the latest edition of Angling Times, out this week.
Ian Brooker had a successful session targeting tench on a local gravel pit using the new Specialist Distance Tench & Bream Mk2 rods. “I was fishing to the front of gravel bar which was surrounded by dense walls of weed at 60 yards. All of the fish came to an In-line Flat… Read more
Specialist angler Paul Elt has had a lot of success with tench this year using scaled down carp tactics. On his last session Paul located a large gravel hump at 40 yards and fished at the bottom of the slope where he felt the natural food would gather. “The tench on this… Read more