Many thanks to Geoff Collins from Rushden in Northants for this fantastic account of his last few days of the season spent on the Great Ouse, landing some beautiful specimen chub on Drennan Barbel hooks and Supplex line. Like most people I tried one afternoon in the last week down… Read more

Dean Derbyshire won a weekly Drennan Cup award recently with this monster chalk stream Grayling weighing 3lb 1oz! Dean trotted maggots under a 1 swan Loafer float, and used 4.4lb mainline to a 3lb hooklength and a size 14 Super Spade hook to take the spectacular specimen – his 2nd… Read more

Oxfordshire’s Steve Russell has sent us some lovely Grayling photos from the end of the river season – all taken trotting. Steve tells us during the course of several trips at the end of the season to various rivers and Chalk streams he took twelve Grayling over 2lb, but the… Read more

Thank you to St Neots specimen angler Mark Simmonds for more super big-Chub pictures, from the in-form River Great Ouse at the end of the season, this handsome fish above is the 6lb 3oz example. “A few of my chub from this flood shortened river winter. I ended up with… Read more

2012-13 Drennan Cup holder Gareth Goldson with a real old warrior of a Chub weighing 7lb 4oz, one of three 7lb+ specimens caught in just two mornings! Gareth underlined his intentions to hold onto the trophy for another term by recording a sensational haul of Chub from the River Great… Read more