On just his second visit to the River Derwent this season, barbel fanatic Martin Allen banked this fantastic 15lb 14oz fish. With a tinge of colour in the water, Martin was confident of a result and after casting out just before 5pm, he sat back and waited two hours before… Read more
Following a tricky spring with only a handful of fish, Chris Stothard had a fantastic session on a large southern pit, with a hit of fish topped by this 11lb 3oz cracker. Chris, who is the Tenchfishers Regional Officer for South Hants and Dorset, made the most of the warmer… Read more
It fought deep and hard, but then a huge perch surfaced 10 metres out.Small changes can make the biggest of differences in fishing, and that’s exactly what Ian Potts found out on June 16th when he banked this personal best barbel of 18lb 4oz. He told us “As was the… Read more
Former Drennan Cup winner, Darryn Stolworthy has banked the biggest reported tench of the season so far with this beast at 12lb 2oz. The Norfolk specialist angler fished a Cambridgeshire pit that had produced one tench all year, and that fish had fallen to a carp angler. However, knowing the… Read more
Fenland rivers are a popular early season target for quite a few anglers, offering some of the best rudd fishing around as Keith Mutton found out on the first day of the season. Fishing with his son and friend, Keith offered float fished corn and hooked what he believed to… Read more
Dai Gribble proved the merits of moving swims to stay on the fish when he banked this fine 11lb 4oz tench from an East Anglian pit. It’s the first double-figure specimen the two-time Drennan Cup winner has landed this season, having caught two tench that came agonisingly close at 9lb… Read more
