Dean Derbyshire won a weekly Drennan Cup award recently with this monster chalk stream Grayling weighing 3lb 1oz! Dean trotted maggots under a 1 swan Loafer float, and used 4.4lb mainline to a 3lb hooklength and a size 14 Super Spade hook to take the spectacular specimen – his 2nd… Read more
Drennan Aces Inside The Latest Issue Of Match Fishing
The April issue of Match Fishing magazine is stuffed full of top tactics, handy tricks, great reviews, competitions and much, much more. Inside you’ll find a great ‘Life Through The Lens’ article with five-time world champion, Alan Scotthorne, as he reveals his seven all-time greatest angling highlights. In the same issue,… Read more
Steve Russell’s Grayling on the IM9 Finesse
Oxfordshire’s Steve Russell has sent us some lovely Grayling photos from the end of the river season – all taken trotting. Steve tells us during the course of several trips at the end of the season to various rivers and Chalk streams he took twelve Grayling over 2lb, but the… Read more
Mark’s String of Big Ouse Chub
Thank you to St Neots specimen angler Mark Simmonds for more super big-Chub pictures, from the in-form River Great Ouse at the end of the season, this handsome fish above is the 6lb 3oz example. “A few of my chub from this flood shortened river winter. I ended up with… Read more
Bordon Win Willow Park Champs
Drennan Bordon Youth are this year’s Willow Park Teams Of Four Winter League Champions! The league was fished over 10 hard-fought rounds on the Small and Middle lakes at the popular Hampshire venue. Bordon’s talented team of four, consisting of Alex King, Tom Arnot, Dave Lewis and Mark Wells, worked… Read more
Gareth’s Astonishing Haul of Specimen Ouse Chub
2012-13 Drennan Cup holder Gareth Goldson with a real old warrior of a Chub weighing 7lb 4oz, one of three 7lb+ specimens caught in just two mornings! Gareth underlined his intentions to hold onto the trophy for another term by recording a sensational haul of Chub from the River Great… Read more