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The photos shown below are recent captures on Carp Company bait. 

These photos will be updated at regular intervals with the more outstanding catches being added to our photo album; so send yours in!

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Archie 32-08.JPG (2293952 bytes)Archie 45-06.JPG (2590939 bytes) This is a couple of photos from the ever consistent Andrew Shellard "Archie".  Left is a 32-08 mirror and right is a stunning 45-06 mirror both caught using 16mm Icelandic Red with C+C. 27 year old Archie fished a oxfordshire syndicate lake and had the fish during a two different 24 hour sessions.

Top angling Archie!!

RichDean23-15.jpg (161337 bytes)RichDean 20lb+.JPG (1275154 bytes) Right then these are just a couple of photos that have been sent to me by Rich Dean, he is fishing a new lake called Shiplate Farm Fishery and he is already doing the business.  All of the fish that Rich has been banking are falling to the Icelandic Red with C&C.

If you are interested in the fishery there check it out on facebook at Facebook/Shiplate Carp Fishery (website to follow)  the lake is located in Bleadon, Weston-Super-Mare.

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Right then how about these three cracking mirrors all caught during a week at Lac Les Pins.  Top left is Lee Beavan the lakes first 60lb fish topping the scales at 60lb 12oz, top right is Tony Sheen with a 57lb 4oz Mirror and below is Jake Giles with a 52lb 8oz Mirror

All the above fish were caught using Carp Company's Icelandic Red with C&C and also Natural Impact. 

These fish and just going from strength to strength, how long before it does a 70lber!!

  

GBJ 91lb.JPG (3045492 bytes) Well what can be said about this one then!! John Harding AKA GBJ with the 2nd biggest ever carp caught! 91lb, yep 91lb.

Again the Icelandic Red sorting out the better fish!

Well done Gas board, top angling mate!!

 

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Tony Smeets with another cracking fish!! This lump tip the scales to 44lb 2oz!! As with all Tony's fish this one fell to the Natural Impact.

Well done Tony on a great run of big fish since coming onto Carp Company baits!!

Top angling mate!

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Dean Webb with his new PB common of 41lb 4oz, this stunner was banked during a 24hour session using the Icelandic Red with C&C.

Top result Dean!!

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This is John Murphy with a stunning PB mirror that he banked from a Biggleswade and Hitchin AC Water.  The mirror weighed in at 32lb 12oz and fell to a 14mm Icelandic Red Cavair & Cranberry bottom bait.  

John tells me that he is lead to believe that this is the first time that this fish has been banked as no record of previous captures can be found.

Thanks for the photo John, told you the bait would do the job for you. 

 

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Steve French has been a customer of Carp Company for many years now.  Every time we see Steve he gives us loads of photos of fish he has been banking.  Some of the fish are huge and some are cracking looking fish.  Shown here is a selection of some of the fish Steve has been banking, can not name the water, but needless to say its a "headbanger" for most!

Icelandic Red with Cav & Cran again!

Big thanks to Steve for the pics!!

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What about this for a stunning pair of fish!!  New to Carp Company Tony Smeets started off using the bait with a lake record Common from Frimley pit 4 and then followed it up with these two, a 37-10 Linnear and a 43-02 Mirror. All fish falling to the Icelandic Natural Impact.

Great start Tony, top angling mate. 

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Here is a new PB for Gary Mac from Cheam, Surrey. London cabbie Gary pushed up his PB to 41lb 8oz with this truly stunning Mirror.  The big fish fell to the Icelandic red with C&C with Aminol, GLM and A/B.

Top result Gary!!

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Here is a stunning mirror of 36lb 8oz caught by John Copper, the write up is in his own words, well done mate!

"I have waited 14 yrs for a fish like this"
 
I arrived on my local lake,  down in Wales on Friday at around 10am after having a look around the lake for 2 hrs and having spoken to numerous other anglers who hadn't caught anything for more than 3 days, i just knew that this would be my day knowing i had a great bait in my bag. anyhow i finally got set up and positioned my traps in areas that i had saw carp previously in the day. confidence was high i can tell you. and then at 5.46 that evening my right hand rod screamed off on the Icelandic Red i knew as soon as i hooked it that this was a big fish after 15 minutes of a battle that i didn't want to end the monster slipped over my net and with a minutes rest and a big sigh i lifted the net onto my unhooking mat moved the mesh off the fish i couldn't believe my eyes it was a fish so big that i couldn't want to  take the photos and slip her back and phone everybody in my phone book AWESOME FISH AWESOME BAIT thanks mate . 

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Another PB on Carp Company bait, this time Adam Porter had this cracking 37-08 mirror taken on the O-PM during a trip to "Temple Lake" at Old Bury Hill Fishery.  

Well done mate, great fish!

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How about this for a stunning fish, all 71lb of it, yep 71lb!!!  Paul walter is no stranger to big carp but even this lump beat his PB by 19lb!! Paul also banked 9 other fish including 30lb and 40lb fish during a week on Rainbow lake, France.  All fish fell to our new on test bait for 2009.

Top angling Paul, well done mate.

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This 48lb 12oz fish is Jim Roberts biggest fish from a weeks trip to Ribiere, France.  Jim ended the week with this 48lb 12oz together with 7x30s 1x20 and 1xdouble.  All the fish fell to the new on test bait that is due out in 2009.

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Carp Company partner Jules Webb with two of his fish from a recent trip to Lac Les Pins in France.  All fish fell to the Natural Impact left is 47lb 12oz and right is 46lb 8oz.  A great fishery and well worth a visit.

 

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What about this for a cracking pair of fish, left is 39lb 8oz and right is 40lb 2oz.  Both fish falling to the rods of Gary Allen on  Icelandic Red pop-ups during a trip to a Southern Still Water.  

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Another cracking pair of fish from Scott Sullivan from a southern stillwater. Top left is 34-02 and right is 38-12, both fish falling to the Icelandic Red with C+C.

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Here we have father & son team Peter and Ben Wetstone from Chessington, Surrey with a couple of the fish they had during a recent trip to France.  It has taken us  a while to add the photos to the site as we were unsure about the clothing that Ben had been forced to wear for the photos, but after much soul searching we decided to add the photos as we know its not his fault.  Great fish Ben, this one went 36lb and Peters went 43lb 4oz.  Icelandic Red yet again.

Well done to both of you and thanks for the photos 

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Gary Allaway with the truly stunning "Bernie's Linear" at 42lb 6oz from Dinton Pastures.  A wonderful looking fish that still loves the Icelandic Red. 

Top angling Gary, well done mate.

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Tony Parker with a stunning pair of Cemex Road Lake fish, left is "The Dink" at 36-08 and right is "The Pug" at 34-12.  Both fish were caught using a mixture of Carp Company products.  Top angling Tony. 

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Just two of the great photos sent to me by Nathan

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A couple of photos from Barry & Ben O'Conner with a couple of recent fish.  Top left is the Rookley Country Park Mirror at 40lb 20z, top right is a Lac Les Pines 40lb+ Mirror and below is a 34lb12oz Common to Ben from Kiln Lake at Furnace Fishery.

All fish falling to the Icelandic Red and 12mm  High-Viz Squid pop-ups 

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Catch report in Jim Roberts words (top angling mate)

My 4 day session started one evening, with the first night being relatively quiet then around 7am on the following morning I had a good run which resulted in a 33lb mirror whilst the fish was in the net I tried to get somebody to come down and take some photos but then my middle rod roared off, sensing that it would be doubtful to get anybody to take the photos I released the 33 from the net and landed a 23lb 6oz mirror. Just as I was returning the fish my last rod signaled another take which was another 23 at 23lb 12oz, 3 fish in a session is pretty good but 3 in twenty minutes was un-believable. I put a little more bait out not wanting to spook anymore fish that was in the swim and about an hour later had another run weighing 24lb 11oz. The fish were obviously on the munch so having waited another hour to make sure there was no fear of spooking any fish in the swim I decided to bait quite heavily and put out around 12kg of particles, OPM boilies and OPM chops. I could hear fish topping in the area through the night and was totally amazed to awake at first light without any further action but I just knew if I left the area un-disturbed that one would make the mistake and at around lunch time I had a flyer of a take on the middle road which I knew as soon as I hooked it was one of the smaller residents of the lake which proved to be right as a fish of around 17lb was netted. I putt the rod back over the bait and topped it up with 5 spods. I sat back not really expecting another take in the heat of mid day sun but twenty minutes later a slow take on the same middle rod had me striking into a much heavier fish. This fish went on 3 runs each time taking 30-40 yards and was struggling to keep the fish in front of me, it kited down into the margins on my left hand side knowing there a few snags a pushed the rod underneath the water and played the fish for a good five minutes like this, eventually got the fish in front of me but could not get it off the bottom every time it seemed to be near the net it would power off again. It surfaced then I quickly realized what fish I was connected to – The Thorp Park common, this fish has only been caught once before this year and as they say my legs turned to jelly and I think I said a few prayers for the hook to stay in, it eventually rolled over the net cord with a big shout GET IN THERE. After gathering my thoughts I weighed it at 37lb 10oz really the weight is immaterial to this great wise fish, I took a few snaps, gave her a kiss and watched her swim away strongly.

The rest of the session passed away without incident but I was more then happy with just that one fish not to mention another thirty and three twentys, it was just one of those sessions were everything went right. Also I have say before this session I had in fact sent an e-mail to carp Company questioning the catch-ability of the OPM bait during the warmer months its certainly the best every winter/spring bait I have used resulting in numerous twenty pound fish and 5 fish over 30lb including 37lb and 39lb mirrors, and a 35lb common. Having gone through a patch of catching but only picking up the smaller residents during the last two months I wrongfully doubted the bait as a true all year bait which has totally been put right after this session. So another e-mail was sent to Carp-Company apologising for ever doubting the bait.

 

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Just two out of a catch of many including 2 40lb+ fish and 2 50lb+ fish.  Guy fished a week session at "Damvillers" and banked all of his fish using the Icelandic Red with C&C.  Left is a 32lb Common and right is a 52lb 6oz Mirror.  Well done Guy and thanks for the pics.

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Dave Tudor with a cracking pair of big fish, left is a 38lb+ and right is a PB 45lb 8oz stunner.  Both fish fell to the Icelandic Red with Caviar & Cranberry EPAs.

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Another big fish for Gary Mac, this one topping out at 38lb 14oz.  This fish along with two others fell to the Natural Impact with Lobster EPAs.

Great result again Gary!

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Tom Hughes with a cracking 37lb 6oz common banked from Cemex Papercourt during an overnight session.  Goldsworth Angling employee tempted the fish using the Icelandic Red with C&C.

Top angling mate

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Shaun McDermott with another lump from Monks Lake, this one going 40lb 8oz.  This came as part of a 6 fish catch that also included fish of 32lb 8oz and 29lb 15oz.  the Icelandic Red still doing the business for Shaun. 

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How about this for a pair of fish that were banked with 24 hours of each other, both are fish of a lifetime! Left is a 49lb 8oz Common and right is a 64lb 8oz Mirror.  Clint Kirby banked both during a trip to "Lac De Juvigny" and all Clints fish fell to the Icelandic Red with Caviar & Cranberry.

Well done Clint, great result.

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How about this for a big kipper! Antony Fowell fished a week session on DDI and was rewarded with a string of big fish including this PB 57lb+ Mirror.  Antony, a member of the "Cheadle Carp Crew" fished from the lodge swim using 18mm Icelandic Red with Caviar & Cranberry.

Great fish mate and thanks for the photos

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Another good result for Hampshire based Roger Priddle. Left is a lake record 33lb mirror along with a stunning 26lb Mirror.  Both fish falling for the O-PM. Roger has had 6 fish from the water in the last four trips, there has not been another fish caught during that time!  Top angling mate.  

Roger has also banked Tench of 10lb 8oz & 10lb 4oz! 

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How about this for a stunning looking fish! 39lb 4oz Mirror taken by Jake Slatery from an un-disclosed southern lake. This fish was Jakes target fish for the season and came after only a handful of nights on the water.

The fish fell to a 16mm C&C pop up over 1/2 kg of C&C 16mms and 1/2kg of Natural Impact mix. Size 5 stiff rigger Mk2, 3oz lead helicopter style, 15lb GR60.

 Thanks for the photos Jake, stunning fish

 

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Here we have a few O-PM caught crackers by Hampshire based Roger Priddle.  Top is a 26-08 Common and below is a lake record Common of 25lb & lake record Mirror of 29-08, both lake record fish came in consecutive casts!   

Top result Roger, keep them coming mate

 

 

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Andy Basket's biggest of the year so far from Bluebell Lake, this common weighing 27lb. This fish along with Andy's other fish have all fallen to the Natural Impact with Lobster EPA.

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Just a few photos from Steve French with some of the cracking looking fish that he has been catching from a Cambridgeshire water.  Top left 25lb 10oz, Top right 28lb 1oz, bottom left 30lb 10z and bottom right 33lb 14oz.  All Steve's fish were taken on the Icelandic Red with C+C.

Thanks for the photos Steve and keep them coming mate, great fish!

 

 

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Check these stunning looking fish out, top left is a 31lb 8oz known as "Little Lin", top right is a 28lb 12oz, bottom left is a 29lb 6oz and bottom right is a 28lb 8oz Common.  All fish were caught by Paul

All Paul's fish have been falling to the Nut Mix with Sweet Cream & Choc Nut EPAs. The original Nut Mix and still the best!

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Jim Morson with another cracker (which I forgot to add) The famous "Charlie the Common" from CEMEX Frimley at 40lb 2oz.  This also fell to Natural Impact with Squid EPA & The Aminol.  A big fish that fell to a quality bait yet again!  

Again Jim Morson with a cracking Cemex Frimley Common of 32lb 2oz.  The hard fighting fish fell to the Natural Impact with Squid EPA & Aminol  Great fish Jim.

Well done Jim and thanks for the photos.

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Both of these fish are PB's for Steve Gravestock from Farnborough.  Left is a 33-12 Common & right is a 37-09 Mirror both fish coming from  Cemex Kingsmead 1. Both fell to the pulling power of the Icelandic Red with Caviar & Cranberry with Salmon Oil and the Aminol.  Told you it would do the job Steve, well done mate great result and keep them coming.

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How about these pair of stunning Mirrors. The top fish is a Mirror of 51lb caught by Keith Evans and the bottom one is 48lb 6oz and was caught by Jim Roberts.  Both fish were caught during a trip to Ribiere in early March.

All the fish banked fell to the Icelandic Red and included another forty for Jim at 43lb as well as mirrors of 33lb, 28lb & 27lb,as well as 5 sturgeon up to 35lb

 

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Another two big Icelandic Red caught fish, these two were taken by Dave Drought during a trip to Morgard where he banked 17 fish including seven over 30lb and these to lumps.   The 63lb Mirror was a new lake record.  Dave also banked the lake record mirror during his trip the year before at  56lb!

Good angling Dave and that for the photos mate.

 

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Jim Roberts with another lump from Cemex "Kingsmead 1".  This fish topped the scales at 39lb 4oz and fell to the O-PM.

Top angling mate 

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Yep, its that man again and he's on a roll, this weekend  Shaun banked six fish including the lakes biggest (top left) called the Sheriff at 46lb10oz as well as  mirrors of 37lb (top right0 and 37lb 3oz (bottom)

As before all Shaun's fish fell to the Icelandic Red with Caviar & Cranberry EPAs, along with Salmon Oil, Aminol and GLM.

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How about this for a couple of cracking Commons!  Phil Morton from Surbtion Angling Centre with( left) a 34lb 4oz Swan Valley fish and (right) a 33lb 6oz River Thames fish.  Both caught using the Icelandic Red with added extras. 

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James "Bovis" Brennen with a stunning brace, a real brace of just minutes apart.  Left a seldom caught 30-04 mirror and a PB common of 34-04.  Both fish fell to the Ice Red! Top angling mate, keep them coming.

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Dean Blyth and Robin Holmes fished a session on Yateley Pad Lake and were rewarded with some quality fish including these two.  Top left is Dean with a 30lb Mirror and right is Robin with a 30lb 12oz Common.  Both fish falling to the Icelandic Red. 

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First trip to a new water and the first fish is this one, result mate.  This 33lb 3oz Common came from RMC Anglings "Papercourt" and fell to Mick Wells on the Ice Red.

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How's this for a stunning looking common, Graham Henning with a 31lb 4oz cracker from a WDAA water.  This highly sought after fish fell to the new Natural Impact.  

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Cambridgeshire based Steve French with just a couple of his recent fish, left 38lb 5oz and right 25lb+.  Steve always give us loads of great photos but sadly we can not use most due to a publicity ban on the waters.   Ice Red with C&C once again! 

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A short three night session on Lac Les Pins produced some cracking fish for Bob Newman & Don Rowe.  Top left is a hard fighting 42-08 Mirror and top right is a PB 47-04 Mirror (caught in April 05 at 34-04, 13lb gain in a year!!) Below is a scale perfect PB 36-08 Mirror for Don who also banked two upper 20lb+ fish.  Bob also had fish of 35lb and 38lb.  All of the fish fell to Carp Company's Icelandic Red with Caviar & Cranberry EPAs.  Well worth a visit and there are a few places left during 2006, click the link below for more details.

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