North-West match ace Nick Butterworth is well known for his frugal feeding (he’s renowned as being a bit tight, says Stu Conroy!), but he surpassed himself on Sunday, even by his own standards, by winning the Brookside Open match in Cheshire without feeding anything at all! Nick was drawn on… Read more
Marc Dibsdall’s Oxfordshire Stillwater Carp

Oxford specialist angler Marc Dibsdall enjoyed a brilliant trip in the sun floater fishing for carp recently on an Oxfordshire Stillwater – and is seen here playing a big carp on his 12ft ESP Floater rod. Marc used floating baits presented with 10lb Drennan Double Strength mono through to a surface… Read more
Neill Stephen’s Sunny Oxfordshire Mirror

What a gorgeous sunny Carp! 2010-11 Drennan Cup Winner Neill Stephen from London (who also finished runner up in 2011-12!) caught this gorgeous fully scaled Mirror recently on Zig-Rig Tactics, from an Oxfordshire Stillwater. Neill tricked the fish by getting it to take a piece of buoyant black foam presented… Read more
The Rive Challenge, Ploermel lake, nr Rennes, France – by Alan Scotthorne
More of Peter Drennan’s Dorset Roach
Another wonderful photo from Peter Drennan & Martin Bowler’s recent Roach fishing trip to Dorset, taken from Martin’s excellent article which appeared in Angling Times 1st May. The article relates the full story of the trip, where the lads fished Drennan IM9 rods and Supplex line through to Crystal Waggler… Read more
Robin Cave’s Carp
Drennan’s Paul Green went along to top Oxfordshire Commercial Match Fishery Rolf’s Lake to spectate and take photos at Gary Horne’s recent Private Invitation Match – and despite changeable weather captured a number of tremendous action photographs. You’ll all be able to enjoy a series of them here over the… Read more