Top specimen angler Neill Stephen has had another giant rudd from a southern Stillwater – this 3lb 15oz 8drm specimen! The former Drennan Cup Champion from London float fished sweetcorn in the margins using a size 14 Drennan Wide Gape 4lb Hooks To Nylon, a Loaded Crystal Waggler, 4lb Super… Read more
We have just returned from an enjoyable product testing session and couldn’t resist catching a few carp on the waggler like this handsome little beauty! An 11ft Acolyte Carp Waggler was absolutely perfect for fishing a 5g Loaded Pellet Waggler with 6mm and 8mm pellets at 30 metres. The rod is so crisp on the cast… Read more
Jon Arthur reports back from a successful festival which saw him finally qualify for the prestigious £25,000 Parkdean Masters Final. For the past five or six years I have been making the annual pilgrimage down to White Acres in Cornwall to compete in the Preston Innovations Festival. This is the biggest… Read more
Tom Scholey gives the Acolyte Carp a full 16m workout in the latest issue of Pole Fishing magazine. The Pole Fishing editor takes the pole to Woodside Fishery in the West Midlands to see how it copes with extracting carp and F1s from a snaggy island swim. As part of his expert analysis he praises one of the pole’s many… Read more
Dean Barlow reports back from the Frank Barlow & Steve Toone Memorial. Now in its 18th year, it’s an event that pays respect to two larger than life characters who are sadly no longer with us. This year’s Memorial Match had a change of venue to the upper reaches of the… Read more
Mark Simmonds has celebrated his 40th birthday in style with the capture of a magnificent 17lb 1oz bream! Here’s his in-depth account of an amazing capture that has also won him a well-deserved Drennan Cup prize in this week’s Angling Times: I have been fishing a big Cambridgeshire lake for the… Read more