Drennan Area Manager in South West France David Corday reports on a recent sea fishing trip: At 6 o’clock in the morning, dawn was breaking in the port of Saint Denis d’Oléron in Charente Maritime, a crew made of 7 keen anglers boarded l’Outrage with Sebastien Gas, fishing guide, as… Read more
Category: Specimen
Bream Tactics – by Terry Theobald
Fresh leaves and amorous ducks are a sure fire sign spring is here again and, the concentration turns towards the humble bream, especially the big old bronze beauties that live in our many gravel pits throughout the land. To some, especially carp anglers, they are no more than a slimy… Read more
Des Taylor’s Severn Barbel
Famous angling writer Des Taylor enjoyed a spectacular end to the river season with a barbel bonanza on his beloved River Severn near Bewdley – catching a number of fish capped by this wonderful 13lb specimen. Des has fished the river for many years – and has seen the barbel… Read more
Mike Davidson’s Tench
Here’s a nice picture of Mike Davidson’s successful Tench rig from the weekend – incorporating a Drennan 35g Large Flat Method Feeder (loaded with method mix) and a short hooklength of the new 10lb Gravel Braid. Hookbait, as shown, was two of the Bloodworm Red artificial buoyant maggots, which proved… Read more
Drennan’s Mike Davidson lands beautiful 7lb 6oz lake Tench
Drennan’s South East Sales Agent and ace specimen angler Mike Davidson embarked on his first Tench session of the Spring at the weekend and produced a quite astonishing catch. Targeting a mild Southern lake, Mike began a 48 hour session on Friday morning and fishing daylight hours only, had amassed… Read more
New Product: Drennan Gravel Braid
Attention all you specimen Tench & Bream anglers just planning your Spring campaign – take a look at the brilliant new Gravel Braid we’ve just launched. This supple, fast sinking Dyneema based material has been specially designed to be as camouflaged as possible against a typical gravel bottom, consisting of… Read more