Gale force winds and hail storms slowed the sport down at White Acres for Day One of the Drennan Rive Silverfish Festival. Comfortable winner on the day was Callum Dicks with 44lb 12oz of roach and skimmers from Peg 17 on the fancied High Bank of Pollawyn. The Drennan Team… Read more
Category: France
The Drennan Rive Silverfish Festival 2015
Some of the best match anglers from England and France are competing at White Acres this weekend, including World Champion’s such as Alan Scotthorne, William Raison and Didier Dellanoy. This is the second year that the Drennan Rive Silverfish Festival is being held at the fantastic White Acres Holiday Park… Read more
Skimmer Success At St Georges
Greg Sire caught this excellent 6.5kg mixed bag during an enjoyable three-hour session on a lake at St Georges sur Eure, near Chartres, France. “To start, I threw in five balls of Sensas Gros Gardons Fine and a homemade roach groundbait mix and then fed two balls of ‘double leam’ containing joker and chopped worms,” the Drennan enthusiast explained. “The swim was… Read more
Carp Treat For French Visitors
Below are some of the fish taken by our French visitors as they sampled some of the great sport on offer here in England. After an extensive visit of our factories and precision engineering facilities, three of our French sales agents were treated to a day at Rolfs Lake in Oxfordshire. As well as… Read more
France Top The Ladies World Champs
France have won the 22nd Ladies World Championship after a dominant performance on the Charleroi-Brussels Canal in Ronquières, Belgium. The team, consisting of Valerie Nadan, Lucie Parise, Pauline Nervet, Isabelle Hawryhuk and Carole Guidez, managed to win both days to give them a convincing 41-point winning total. Second-placed Netherlands were some way… Read more
French Tench On the Method Feeder
Thierry Huet and his son Clément have had a great session catching tench on feeder tactics. Thierry, a retailer for the popular Magic Pêche stores in France, was fishing a lake in Loyat, Brittany, and caught these quality fish, plus some even bigger carp, with hair-rigged Dumbells and Method Feeder tactics.