I had a rare opportunity to fish a match on peg 48 on Bonsai lake, that I had drawn just five days earlier in an eighty peg Open. I won that time with 130lb, sixty pounds of silver fish and the rest made up of F1s. In the opening hour… Read more
Category: Alan Scotthorne
Why Throw Away Good Maggots? By Alan Scotthorne
Recently I have been using and having a lot of success with dead red maggots as hook baits and also feeding the same. How many anglers buy maggots every week and simply discard left over ones at the end of every match, wasting perfectly good bait for Carp and Skimmers with… Read more
“The Sensas Challenge on the Gloucester Canal” by Alan Scotthorne
At the weekend I fished the Sensas Challenge match run by Mark Downes on the Gloucester canal, and I must say this was a much better choice of venue than previous years at Packington Summers. The Gloucester Canal has a more uniform bank and a depth that does not vary too… Read more
‘Make Your Elastic Last Longer’ by Alan Scotthorne
Walking round before the start of a match at Lindholme lakes a couple of weeks ago, I noticed something about the way a lot of anglers had set up their rigs. Time and again I saw the hook at the base of the number three section and with several feet… Read more
Alan’s First Product Meeting
Having recently joined Drennan, five times World Champion Alan Scotthorne attended the new product launch meeting at the company head office. The regional salesmen who had assembled from all over the country took the opportunity to examine Alan’s rigs and hooks to nylon. These were all pre-assembled to an amazingly… Read more
Commercial Tactics on Canals
Taking commercial tactics onto our canals is nothing new, but for me on the Stainforth canal at Thorne, its something that I have not really considered before because Bloodworm & Joker have always dominated my tactics on the venue. Due to adverse weather conditions on the continent Bloodworm & Joker have been in short… Read more