Drennan Oxford recently fished the Evesham team qualifier on the River Avon. The team had enjoyed quite a bit of success in the previous weekends running up to the event, so they fancied a good result. “Stephen Townsend drew peg 11, Tom Hobbs on peg 36, Steve Harwood on 56,… Read more
With the summer sun heating the upper layers of stillwaters and rivers there is currently no better time to target surface feeding species such as rudd. Angling Times has had reports of several amazing catches of big rudd in the past month with the pick of the bunch this week… Read more
This sublime 16lb 1oz barbel has topped the list of specimen catches in what’s been another fantastic start to the season for the species. It was banked by Nottingham-based angler Den Willets and was the gem in the twenty barbel he caught during a week’s fishing on a section of… Read more
50 anglers turned up to fish the second round of the Drennan Coors Trent Masters. Conditions weren’t the best for the second round qualifier, with bright sunshine and a gin clear water, this led to a tight match, with no quality fish feeding. Nick West made the most of a… Read more
The biggest tench of the season accolade has been smashed once again with the capture of this monumental 13lb 1oz specimen. The plump tinca was banked by building contractor Nick Proctor from a Midlands Stillwater and smashed his old personal best for the species by more than four pounds. The… Read more
Big eels are notoriously difficult to catch by design, however by utilising an unconventional approach Paul Scowen successfully landed this 5lb 4oz specimen. Targeting a 50-acre syndicate lake in the South-East, Paul fished over a bed of dead maggots with hair-rigged worm sections or bunches of maggots, presented on a… Read more
