James Hinley has caught a lovely mixed bag of fish, trotting a stick float on the River Tees with the help of his 14ft Acolyte Ultra float rod. “I had brought three pints of maggots and two of caster and it didn’t take long to start catching roach and dace,” the keen angler… Read more
Chris Vandervleit Through To £50,000 Final
Chris Vandervleit is through to the Maver Match This Final after winning the latest qualifier at Barston Lakes. On a tough day where most of the 97-strong field struggled, the Drennan and Bait-Tech ace managed an impressive 116lb 10oz using his trademark ‘tea bag’ tactics. Chris relied on casting a… Read more
20lb Of Chub On First Visit
Drennan’s Dan Varney has just had a great first visit to the River Trent. The Kamasan Starlets team man was fishing a 100-peg match at East Stoke in Nottinghamshire and managed 4th overall with a fantastic 20lb 10oz of chub on maggot feeder tactics. Well done Dan! Dan used a… Read more
Quality Chub With Red Range Reel
Joe Ryan caught this magnificent chub with the help of his Red Range Float 6-30 Reel. The keen specimen hunter from Bedfordshire commented: “I caught this 7lb chub on my local river, trotting bread on a Drennan Red Range reel and Supplex line with a Loafer float and a size 12 Specimen micro barbed hook. The fish put up… Read more
Scott’s Biggest River Roach
Scott Cordingly has beaten his personal best roach with this 1lb 13oz river specimen. The talented big-fish angler told us: “There are not many fish on this stretch and I have been fishing it for eight years and have never seen a roach this big. It’s my new PB of… Read more
Ups & Downs On The River Trent
Alan Scotthorne reflects on recent sessions spent on the mighty River Trent in preparation for the forthcoming Division One National. With the Angling Trust Division One National Championship coming up on the River Trent, my Drennan Barnsley Blacks outfit have been putting in some extra practice. The winners of this competition… Read more