This lovely photo of a specimen Fenland Rudd was sent in by Paul Elt from St Neots. Rudd are suckers for a well presented maggot hookbait in the upper layers of the water – Paul using a 3g Glow Tip Peacock to fool this example. These floats cast well, feature… Read more
Wigan specimen angler Steve Sutton won a weekly Drennan award in Angling Times last week for a tremendous recent catch of monster Bream! Steve fished a ‘rock hard’ Lancashire Stillwater and used method feeder tactics to take fish of 18lb 9oz, 16lb 2oz, 14lb and 12lb 1oz over the course… Read more
Hertfordshire’s Dan Sales was delighted with these two fine Tench after a tough spring, the larger specimen weighing 7lb 12oz. After a tremendous river season, the particularly cold wet Spring weather meant Dan has honestly reported a slump in catches – a situation in reality experienced by the vast majority… Read more
Check out the latest issue of Total Coarse Fishing magazine (July 2012) – which contains a fabulous, easy to enter competition where 4 lucky readers will win a Drennan Martin Bowler Big River Barbel 12ft 2¼lb rod, worth £169! The magazine is on news agents shelves now! The Big River… Read more
Another fine action picture from a Rolf’s Lake match (Oxfordshire commercial fishery) – featuring Darren Simmons (photo taken by Drennan’s Paul Green). Darren is seen here in this exciting image with elastic at almost full stretch, landing net extended, the water boiling as he’s about to land a serious lump… Read more
Durham’s ace specimen angler Simon Ashton travelled down to Oxfordshire’s Linear Fisheries for a week long Tench session recently and enjoyed a rather successful trip! Switching between Inline Bolt Rig maggot and Groundbait Feeder tactics with chopped worm, Simon caught a quite superb 32 Tench over the course of the… Read more
