News 2020

2020 Drennan Cup runner-up Daniel Woolcott, slipped his net under not one but two cracking double figure tench on a recent session.

The smaller of Dan’s brace but still a truly impressive 10lb 2oz tench

During a trip to an undisclosed Kent gravel pit he took the impressive brace, which weighed 10lb 2oz and a whopping 12lb 6oz.

Dan, himself from Kent, put his faith in a groundbait and maggots approach and was rewarded with the fine pair – the larger of which beat his previous PB by 11oz.

He told Angling Times:

“The 12lb 6oz fish is an extremely old fish and it hasn’t been out for three years. What a great start to the season and I feel honoured to have had the chance to hold such an incredible creature.
“Both fish were caught at 50 yards range on the edge of a plateaux.
“I fished with short 8lb fluorocarbon hooklinks presented helicopter style, with an 40g cage feeder. Two maggots on a size 12 Super Specialist hook was at the business end. I filled the feeder with maggots plugged with Dynamite Baits Grubby groundbait and spombed out hemp, casters, maggots and dead maggots boosted with my ever trusty Dynamite Baits Liquid Worm and molasses.

Dan was ‘truly honoured’ to hold up this 12lb 6oz tench

KANE Hammond is only 17, but he’s just banked a tench that most seasoned specimen anglers could only dream of. It was his fourth consecutive spring targeting a 90-acre southern gravel pit in search of his first double, which came during the first morning of a 48-hour session.

He told us:

“I thought it was a carp, as it was so heavy, but when I saw it was a giant tench in the clear margins the nerves set in!
“When I got it in the net I was hopeful it was a double, so when the scales read over 11lb I was shocked.”

Kane’s new tench PB took four popped-up maggots over a bed of hemp, corn, dead maggots and broken boilies on a gravel bar.