I recently spent two weeks at White Acres fishing the Maver festival and the following Preston festival, the latter being a qualifier for the Parkdean final where the top twenty four Anglers battle it out for the £25k top prize on Jenny’s Lake. Now I treat this as a bit… Read more
Category: Alan Scotthorne
Alan Scotthorne Tests Prototype Drennan Pole
A really strong cross wind was needed for Alan Scotthorne and the Drennan design team to properly evaluate the merits of the latest prototype pole. Typically, the complete design process will require several such prototypes being made, and involve numerous modifications to tapers, wall thicknesses and grades of carbon pre-peg…. Read more
The Evesham Weekend by Alan Scotthorne
Partridge Lakes – A Tough Nut to Crack! by Alan Scotthorne
Whenever possible over the last four weeks I’ve been making the journey to Partridge Lakes to get in some much needed practice for the Angling Trust winter league final. Although it’s only 85 miles from my home to Warrington if you take the M62, it’s a real pain at the… Read more
Alan Scotthorne Visits Drennan HQ for Product Meeting
5 time World Champion Alan Scotthorne recently spent another day at Drennan International HQ working on the design and development of numerous new products with Peter Drennan. Items from reels to floats were examined in detail. Of particular interest Alan had achieved significant improvements in playing and landing big carp… Read more
“Fish O Mania – Home International” by Alan Scotthorne
What a terrific match this was again with the team of Will Raison, Des Shipp, Steve Hemingray and myself doing a great job for Team England to win the Fish O Mania Home International at Cudmore fishery. Most of the fish were caught on the pole but on the difficult… Read more