Two time Drennan Cup Champion Dai Gribble has been on a roll with zander this season and has just landed a new PB from the Tidal Trent, weighing 17lb 2oz. He spent a couple of days on the river and used an approach he describes as ‘bandering’, where he switches… Read more
Perch are known for their angry, head-shaking fight, but this 4lb 13oz specimen went on a few surging runs before being landed by Sean Corbett. He was fishing the in-form Grafham Water with his friend, Karl Bird, and had the fish on a 10cm shad just as he started his… Read more
On a recent trip to the Tidal Trent with his dad, 15-year-old Izaak Beck was hoping for his first-ever zander, and it’s safe to say he smashed his target with this 17lb 8oz specimen. After waking up at 3:30am, the pair were on the river by 7am, and it wasn’t… Read more
Winter chub fishing for many, revolves around fishing multiple swims in a day, roving the bank and covering as much water as possible. But Rob Walton showed that sitting and steadily building a spot can also produce, after landing this 7lb 10oz fish from Kennet. Using a large maggot feeder,… Read more
Having read reports of Grafham Water’s fantastic predator form, Bogdan Pascaru paid the venue a visit and was rewarded with this 5lb 11oz perch. He’d had a relatively uneventful 2022 but got things off to a flyer in the new year with the big predator that fell to dropshot tactics…. Read more
If you’re only going to catch one fish in a session you may as well make it a good one, and that’s exactly what Thomas Trethewey did with this 4lb 11oz perch.. He’d travelled from his home in Kent to a large East Anglian reservoir, where he hoped to land… Read more
