This fabulous photo is Sammie Watson from Suffolk with a Barbel caught during a holiday trip to the lovely Westwood Lakes complex in Lincolnshire. Sammie is married to Drennan’s Norfolk & East Area Sales Agent Julien Watson, so has access to top notch tackle and advice – which she obviously… Read more
Category: Specimen
Brian Price’s big US Fly-Caught Common Carp
Brian Price from Highgate Springs, Vermont US sent us this photo of a tremendous carp caught on Fly Gear and 10lb Drennan Fluorocarbon Fly Leader! Brian was fishing at Lake Champlain in Vermont, and caught the big carp whilst fishing from a Kayak. He was using an 8wt Fly rod… Read more
Christian’s Suffolk Estate Lake Silverfish Session
Christian Barker has sent us this fine picture of a nice catch of bream & silverfish from a Suffolk Estate lake using float-fishing tactics. “It was a proper ‘traditional silver fish session – a superb afternoon’s fishing” Christian told us, having caught Roach, Bream, Rudd & Perch. Christian used a… Read more
Arron O’Hara Took A Friend Fishing!
Arron O’Hara, 17, from Stoborough, Dorset took advantage of the Environment Agency initiative “Take a Friend Fishing” with a Free Rod Licence, when he took his friend Lee Singleton carp fishing for the day. Arron took Lee stalking for carp at Silent Woman Lakes in Dorset, and using an improvised… Read more
Dougie’s Beautiful Bream
Paul ‘Dougie’ Douglas – manager of Carping Capers in Northampton and Northampton Specimen Group member – won a weekly Drennan award in Angling Times for a recent catch of specimen Bream! Following a number of blank trips to a tough Nene Valley Stillwater, Dougie hit the jackpot when he landed… Read more
Phil’s Latest Monster Roach
Phil Smith with his latest monster Scottish Roach – a fish of exactly 3lb caught recently at Lochnaw Castle. Without doubt one of the UK’s most respected all-round specimen anglers, Phil has been catching specimen fish of all species consistently since the 1960’s! His latest week long trip to Scotland… Read more