Jerry Antrobus from Wiltshire with a huge 3lb 9oz chalkstream grayling, which was caught on 4.4lb Drennan Floatfish line. Jerry won a weekly Drennan Award in last week’s issue of Angling Times for the huge fish – which was outwitted by trotting sweetcorn on a size 12 hook beneath a… Read more
Category: Specimen
Arron & Ben’s Dorset Grayling
Young Dorset anglers Arron O’Hara (above) and Ben Gibbens have been catching some quality Dorset Grayling this Winter on trotting tactics. The lads have managed a couple of fish over 2lb on shallow, fast flowing stretches of the Dorset Frome – using their favoured tactics of Supplex line, a Drennan… Read more
Martin Bowler’s Recent Floodwater Barbel
Drennan Consultant Martin Bowler caught this superb floodwater Barbel from the swollen Hampshire Avon, in pouring rain! Martin told the full story of the capture of this fish in his article in last week’s issue of Angling Times. With the river exceptionally high and coloured, Martin used a Drennan Big… Read more
Ben Ward’s First Drop-Shotting Trip
Thank you to Ben Ward from Hertfordshire for sending this picture of a 2lb Perch caught a couple of weeks back. Previously a Drennan Cup weekly award winner, this Perch came on Ben’s first drop-shotting trip – part of an 11 fish catch. Check out the range of E-Sox Soft… Read more
Lasse’s Beautiful Danish Specimens
Thank you to Lasse Birch Højrup for sending some excellent photos of some of his recent Danish specimen Roach, Perch and Ide. Lasse tells us he managed to locate some big shoals of Roach that congregate in brackish water during the winter months. Using a Crystal Avon 5AAA float and… Read more
Andrew Shackleton’s Yorkshire Canal Pike
Thank you to Andrew Shackleton for this picture of fine Yorkshire pike from the Leeds & Liverpool canal. Andrew used Drennan semi-barbed size 8 Treble hooks to fish a Sprat deadbait sink-and-draw to tempt the big Pike. “I don’t know it’s weight as it’s the only time I have ever… Read more