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Rig Marole LinkteQ

Rig Marole LinkteQ

By Ben Wales In the marketing blurb about this new leader material RigMarole states it has invested two years of research and development, but it was well over five years ago that I spoke with ...

ESP Terry Hearn Landing Net

ESP Terry Hearn Landing Net

‘Masterpiece’ and ‘engineering excellence’ are two phrases that spring to mind when I hold the Terry Hearn Landing Net from ESP. These are not throwaway remarks either; I mean them wholeheartedly. ...

New Fishing Republic store to open

New Fishing Republic store to open

Fishing Republic will open its latest megastore near Reading later this month, with a two-day grand opening scheduled for Friday 31st March and Saturday 1st April. The new store is situated at DH ...

Taylors notch up another title

Taylors notch up another title

Elaine and Debbie Taylor ran out winners of the inaugural Ladies British Carp Cup Pairs event at Wetlands Carp Fishery, Nottinghamshire, landing six fish for a final weight of 74lb 13oz. Despite ...

254-yard cast with a carp rod!

254-yard cast with a carp rod!

Terry Edmonds has become the first person in history to record an overhead cast in excess of 250 yards with a carp rod, after chucking a 4½oz lead 254 yards, a distance which was officially measured ...

Serreire record during work party!

Serreire record during work party!

A work-party week on French big-fish venue Lac Serreire threw up a new complex record and personal best for Keith Williams in the form of the Grey Lady, weighing a staggering 81½lb. Working during ...

Go Greased Lightning!

Go Greased Lightning!

If you wanted a few extra yards on your cast back in the 1990s, you needed a bit of this stuff. Greased Lightning was the latest product from the innovative Dave Chilton and his Kryston brand.

What a star!

What a star!

Not many anglers have ripped apart the legendary Railway Lake in Kent, that’s for sure. However, one young lad who made the headlines more than 20 years ago was Lloyd Wheeler. The 11-year-old not ...

Mine’s a Fosters

Mine’s a Fosters

One of the earliest advertisers in Carp-Talk was the massive Midlands tackle shop Fosters of Birmingham. Here’s a look at what they were offering to carpers more than 20 years ago. It’s nice to see a ...

Springing Into Fishing

Springing Into Fishing

Bev Clifford and northern carping legend Brian Skoyles were amongst the volunteers at the latest Spring Into Fishing event on the Brough complex in East Yorkshire. The initiative run by the Angling ...

What a catch!

What a catch!

Kev Grout is without doubt one of the most successful carp match anglers ever. He’s a three-time, back-to-back winner of the UK Carp Cup, but in 2008 he was also making a name for himself on the ...

Beginner’s luck catching Buttons

Beginner’s luck catching Buttons

We all dream of catching the biggest fish in the lake on our first night, but it never happens; well, for most of us it doesn’t! For Daryl Raymond the dream became a reality when he landed this 54lb ...

The Chertsey Fish

The Chertsey Fish

One carp we don’t hear much about these days is the Chertsey mirror, pictured here when it was caught by Ross Dickens of Wallington. Ross weighed the great fish in at 49lb 6oz back in April 2012. It ...

Windsor View Lakes open day

Windsor View Lakes open day

The owners of brand new day-ticket water Windsor View Lakes in Berkshire will be holding an open day later this year to introduce prospective anglers to the two-lake complex. The open day will take ...

90 Minutes Of Madness

90 Minutes Of Madness

Within minutes the bobbin danced and I was in By Steve Kitcher Steve Kitcher details a session where he experienced 90 minutes that he will never forget I arrived at the lake at 4.30pm ...

Ridge Monkey Air Dry System

Ridge Monkey Air Dry System

  By Ben Wales Having seen several varying designs of air-dry bag, I thought there was little more that could be done with this simple device. How wrong I was! Ridge Monkey has really excelled ...

ESP Terry Hearn Rods

ESP Terry Hearn Rods

  The original Terry Hearn rods from ESP have become cult classics and still return good money on the second-hand market. These new rods have been extensively tested and refined to Terry’s ...

Avid Carp Cradle

Avid Carp Cradle

This style of high sided unhooking mat has rightly become very popular, offering possibly the best means of looking after your catch on the bank. This version from Avid Carp features a really nice, ...

RIP Chris McKendry

RIP Chris McKendry

Last week we learned the sad news of the passing of Chris McKendry, the original driving force behind one of the country’s longest-running bait companies, Carp Company. A post by Carp Company owners ...

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