Drennan employee Ian Brooker spent an afternoon just before the close season roving the banks of the River Loddon in search of chub. “As soon as I got to the river I grabbed my ball of cheese paste and went for a wander, baiting half a dozen swims with a few small… Read more
Category: Specimen
Loddon Barbel On The Float
Drennan’s Ian Brooker managed to land this impressive barbel on the float recently from the River Loddon. As it had been a cold night and with snow flurries and hail showers on the drive to the river I decided to feed the chosen swim for a little longer than normal…. Read more
Second 7lb Chub In A Week!
Less than a week after landing a huge Thames chub of 7lb 10oz Mike Davidson has managed to land another huge chub of 7lb 4oz. Like London buses, two came along in quick succession for the Drennan Sales Agent. The area was somewhere he had been meaning to fish for… Read more
Big Avon Chub For Gaz
Gaz Fareham has been making the most of recent sessions on the Hampshire Avon in search of big chub. The run up had been looking good as we’d had a few floods come through in January, but it had been fining down quite nicely and I was hoping the Stour would be in… Read more
Stour Chub Haul For Theo
Terry Theobald recently spent a day of the banks of the Dorset Stour in search of chub and was certainly rewarded for his efforts. Theo used his trusty 15ft MatchPro Ultralight float rod with a small fixed spool reel loaded with 4lb 4oz Float Fish mainline and a simple trotting setup consisting of a… Read more
Loddon Chub For Ian
Drennan’s Ian Brooker had a successful session on the River Loddon recently targeting chub. “It was the first time I’d fished the river this season and really wanted to catch on the float so I started off by spraying red maggots to a long far bank glide upstream of an… Read more