Location is everything in specimen fishing, as Ed Matthews highlighted when he recently landed this 3lb 2oz roach. He was fishing at Sutton Lake, Shropshire, and had started the day in a swim that had been in good form. However, after blanking for an hour and a half, he saw… Read more

Hot on the heels of his Drennan Cup win, Kent angler Daniel Woolcott has been back out targeting big roach, landing this fish of 3lb 4oz. Targeting the popular Brasenose 1 at Linear Fisheries in Oxfordshire which whilst its more common for its carp fishing, it does have a small… Read more

What a way to start the 24/25 Drennan Cup season off…. with a British Record equalling roach of 4lb 4oz for Dai Gribble! The two-time Drennan Cup winner used maggot feeder tactics at Brasenose 1 on Oxford’s Linear Fisheries complex, a venue that’s more popular with carp anglers but has… Read more

Targeting a midlands chalk steam at the back end of the season, Phil Taylor returned to the same swim where he’d seen the river’s large roach take up residence earlier in the summer. This time, armed with a tip rod and bread flake, it didn’t take long before he had… Read more

Two years ago, Leigh Holman landed a 2lb 14oz roach from his local club water, from which stemmed a thought that there could be something a little bit special hiding in the venue’s depths.. Since then, he’s been figuring out how to single-out the larger roach. Having being pestered by… Read more

Reigning Drennan Cup champion Lee McManus is never far away from the big fish and his form continued this winter after landing this stunning roach of 3lb 5oz. The Leicestershire angler was fishing a southern gravel pit and had the fish on a groundbait feeder, fished with a short hooklink… Read more