Roger Marlow is a proud member of the Veterans team that recently returned to England with gold medals around their necks. Here’s his account of a great result on Portugal’s River Raia. This year’s Veterans World Championship prep started a bit different for me as I travelled down early by road and… Read more
Success With Snake-Lake F1s
Alan Scotthorne looks back on a successful weekend he has just spent on two unfamiliar snake-lake venues. I had a complete change this weekend and visited two different venues to where I would normally travel at this time of year. The first was Heronbrook Fisheries in Staffordshire, a venue that will soon play host to Round One… Read more
14.4kg Grass Carp On Acolyte Pole
Aaron Wells has managed to land a colossal 14.4kg (Almost 32lb) grass carp with his Acolyte Carp pole during a pairs competition in France. The Drennan Leicester team man caught the fish during the Carpo-Dream Masters two-day event he was fishing with team mate John Shellard. “I hooked it with 15 minutes of the… Read more
Winter Through To £1,000 Final
Steve Winter has qualified for the Rookery Waters £1,000 Final after scoring an impressive 190lb match win at the Cambridgeshire venue. After a slow first three hours on Peg 25 on Magpie Lake the Drennan and Bait-Tech angler persevered with his left-hand margin to bag up late on maggots over dead reds… Read more
Tench Haul On In-Line Flat Method Feeders
Drennan’s Ian Brooker had a red-letter day on a large Oxfordshire gravel pit recently catching 30 tench during a day session. Arriving just after dawn, he selected to fish at the back of large gravel bar at around 50 yards next to a very dense weed bed. After baiting the… Read more
Bream Sport For Former Drennan Cup Champ
A recent evening session on a local pit produced this immaculate double-figure bream for Jamie Cartwright. Jamie’s favourite bream rig consists of a 3oz distance lead which is attached using a standard lead clip arrangement, a length of tubing above to keep everything pinned down and a 25cm ESP 15lb Two-Tone… Read more