Leeds specimen angler Mike Hunter with a new Personal Best Yorkshire River Pike caught on a Drennan Snap Tackle! Mike has caught some lovely Swale Barbel already this season, and with the onset of Winter has started doing some river piking too. This cracking fish of 21lb 7oz set a new… Read more
Category: Specimen
Carl Welch’s Huge Thames Barbel

London specimen hunter Carl Welch capped a string of recent big fish from the Thames with this 18lb 1oz stunner! Having caught numerous huge Chub from the river recently, Carl subsequently bagged a 15lb 12oz Barbel a couple of weeks ago. He then returned to his pre-baited area for the… Read more
Bernd Werner’s Tremendous German Carp – Part 1
Tony Bertels Monster Pike

Tony Bertels has been area sales manager in the North of Belgium on behalf of Drennan and ESP brands since the late 1990’s. Tony is a keen angler and enjoys pike fishing in County Zuid and Noord Brabant in Holland, as well as in County Leitrim in Ireland, around Balinamore… Read more
Gipping Chub with a Taste for Banana Cheese Paste!
Christian Barker has kindly sent us some more of his super Suffolk Chub photos – including this fine brace from the River Gipping caught on Banana flavoured Cheese paste! After a hunch about using Banana as an extra flavour in his Cheese paste, science teacher Christian was rewarded with a… Read more
Acorn Angling’s Tony Gee bags Specimen Roach
Tony Gee, expert angler and proprietor of friendly local tackle Acorn Angling in Didcot, Oxfordshire, has sent us this great picture of a specimen Roach caught just last weekend! Tony employed a Daiwa Spectron Waggler rod and an ABU 507 reel loaded with 4lb Drennan Supplex to fish the waggler… Read more