Thank you to Cheshire angler Danny Caen for some pictures of recent River Dane Barbel and Chub, like this beauty caught with a Martin Bowler Specialist Barbel rod:- Danny caught these fish at the end of January in high coloured water conditions, using a large Cage feeder on 10lb ESP… Read more
Category: Specimen
Oliver’s Floodwater Chub
Prolific young angler Oliver Jenkinson from Bedfordshire hasn’t let the almost constant flooding stop him catching – as this 5lb 11oz Chub shows. Oli arrived at one of his local rivers to find it right up and coloured, so he donned waders and carefully waded a shallow area to access… Read more
Terry Hearn’s Majestic River Roach
Terry Hearn with a 2lb 14oz Thames System Roach – one of the most majestic photographs of the season to date! Tel caught the Roach using double maggot on a size 18 Drennan Wide Gape Match spade end hook, in conjunction with a tiny bomb – after catching a whole… Read more
Lee Chatfield’s River Roach Haul on Acolyte Ultra Rod
Lee Chatfield kindly sent us these terrific river Roach pictures – all caught using one of our 14ft Acolyte Float rods. Lee fished a southern river using a Stick float and bread punch hookbaits (one of his favourite methods) for a Saturday session last month in company with Matthew Tann…. Read more
Bruno Rogers Thames Chub on Home-Made Float!
Local Oxford young angler Bruno Rogers did well recently in wet windy weather and on a high coloured River Thames to catch this big Chub. Bruno used a home-made flat float to present a Worm hookbait on a size 12 Drennan Wide Gape Specialist hook – the fish weighed a… Read more
Keith Speer’s 3lb River Roach
Hertfordshire angler Keith Speer with a spectacular 3lb river Roach caught using one of our Super Specialist hooks! The specimen Roach came from one of Keith’s local rivers and deservedly won a weekly Drennan Cup award in Angling Times recently. It was outwitted by trotting a single red maggot on… Read more