The Hampshire Avon recently rewarded two-time Drennan Cup winner with a brace of some of its famous roach, as he banked fish of 2lb 5oz and this stunning 2lb 10oz specimen in a memorable session. He was trotting red maggots on the middle river of a stretch with fairly fast… Read more

Early in the season, Roger Mellon located a shoal of big roach on a stretch of the Thames and caught fish to 2lb 3oz on maggots and small pellets. But in between those larger fish, he was also landing much smaller ones. So to single out the larger residents, he… Read more

After finding a few big roach in a bay off the back of the wind, Aaron Marguet was rewarded with this specimen of 3lb 5oz, caught on the float! He was targeting a reservoir and drip fed trimmed-down boilies, which he could see the fish intercepting on the way down…. Read more

Location is everything in specimen fishing, as Ed Matthews highlighted when he recently landed this 3lb 2oz roach. He was fishing at Sutton Lake, Shropshire, and had started the day in a swim that had been in good form. However, after blanking for an hour and a half, he saw… Read more

Hot on the heels of his Drennan Cup win, Kent angler Daniel Woolcott has been back out targeting big roach, landing this fish of 3lb 4oz. Targeting the popular Brasenose 1 at Linear Fisheries in Oxfordshire which whilst its more common for its carp fishing, it does have a small… Read more

What a way to start the 24/25 Drennan Cup season off…. with a British Record equalling roach of 4lb 4oz for Dai Gribble! The two-time Drennan Cup winner used maggot feeder tactics at Brasenose 1 on Oxford’s Linear Fisheries complex, a venue that’s more popular with carp anglers but has… Read more