After scoring his third consecutive lake win, Simon Gale has the wind in his sails and looks to be odds-on favourite to win the Drennan Spring Festival at Messingham Sands. While the conditions have been best described as wintry, with another prolonged hail storm today, the fishing remains red hot. Simon… Read more
All-round specialist angler Simon Ashton set his sights on landing a double figure bream from a new venue this Spring and succeeded on his very first session! Here is Simon’s account of the trip: One of my angling resolutions for 2017 was to target some specimen bream with the hope… Read more
Terrible weather failed to dent the catches on Day 2 of the Drennan Spring Festival at in-form Messingham Sands Fishery. With overnight temperatures falling to -3ºC, a biting northerly wind, rain and hail to contend with, the conditions were reminiscent of the previous year’s festival. Some suggested it should have moved to January when it… Read more
Day One of the Drennan Spring Festival at Messingham Sands got off to a great start, with 11 anglers recording over 100lb from the Swan Pond and Islands Lakes! Although carp dominated most of the weights, it was an all-silverfish catch from peg 37 on the Swan Pond that led the… Read more
Ian McDonald’s first eel fishing session of the season produced his biggest-ever fish caught by design weighing 5lb 6oz. After hearing stories of anglers being ‘smashed up’ by big eels at a club lake in the South of the UK, the Kent-based all-rounder took some fish heads out of his… Read more
This record-shaking 4lb 7oz crucian topped an incredible catch of the species. Nigel Kennard fished a lake in Surrey over eight days and he landed no less than four crucians over 4lb, 21 over the 3lb mark and six 2lb plus fish. The biggest crucian he caught falls just 3oz short… Read more
