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This
is a few of the fish that Simon Long caught during a recent trip to "Les
Teillats". Simons biggest fish of the week was a very
impressive 71lb 8oz Common followed by Mirrors of 50lb 4oz, 45lb 12oz and
41lb 12oz.
All of Simons fish were banked using the
Icelandic Red with Caviar & Cranberry EPAs
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Check
this out for your first fish on your new bait!! Nick Hill with a scale
perfect Common of 34lb 12oz.
Icelandic Red C&C |
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A
truly stunning fish, this common went 40lb 10oz and is a new UK PB for
Chris Hill.
Chris banked the hard fighting common
using Icelandic Red with C&C. |
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Neil
Waite with a lump of a Tench weighing in at 10lb 2oz. Neil banked
the fish while doing an over night session on a Berks stillwater.
Neil was using the on test bait from
Carp Company called "Ice-T" |
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This
is Andy Reynolds with a cracking looking 38lb 8oz Common caught during a
24 hour session on a Southern Still water.
Andy used the Ice red with C&C
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Danny
Caen with the stunning discus at 53lb 8oz during a resent trip to
Gigantica lake, France. Danny used a KD rig snowman style
with a size 4 Carp Company hook and 20lb Gardner Slyskin hook link.
This fish was caught over 15kg of Winter Red with Sweet Cream &
Cranberry.
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Gavin
Carter with just a few of the stunning fish that he has had from Linch
Hill's Christchurch lake since moving on to Carp Company.
Top is Gavin's new UK PB at 43-12 know
as "The Ironing Board" and below is a 34-04 and a 33-15 Common.
All of Gavin's fish came to the
Icelandic Red with Cav and Cran
Top angling mate
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Here
we have Dean Webb with a 31lb 8oz Mirror caught during a 24hour session at
"Temple Lake" Old Bury Hill, Dorking.
Dean banked this cracker while testing a
new Carp Company bait, looks like its working Dean!
Dean fished to a channel between two
islands with a snowman rig over a bed of chopped freebies.
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Right
then this is Steve Price with a 50lb 11oz Common that fell to the O-PM
during a recent over night session on a Isle of Wight stillwater.
This is now the new
Isle of Wight Record Carp!!
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This is one highly sought after
fish. This is its first visit to the bank this year and it went 48lb
8oz!!!
This is a real cracker and was caught by
Matt Tollman using the Icelandic Red with Lobster & Crab EPAs, the
Aminol, GLM and Salmon Oil.
Keep them coming Matt
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Once
again another fine brace of fish for Archie during a recent session at
Lynch Hill, left is 35-02 and right is 35lb.
Both fish falling to the Icelandic Red
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Nice
to see Oscar again this time with a new PB Mirror of 33lb 2oz.
Oscar stalked the fish from a little hole
in the weed in about 2ft of water in some really overgrown trees down
the margin about 2 ft out from the bank. After a couple of
smaller carp Oscar hooked it on half an Icelandic Red 16mm and a mesh
bag of crushed bollies fished over a few crushed baits. Oscar told
me how great it was to see the come in and pick up his hook bait, then
shake its head and then charge of.
Well done Oscar, top angling mate
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Another
fine selection of stunning fish banked by Archie during a session at Lynch
Hill. All of Archies fish fell to the Icelandic Red with C&C.
Top result again mate! |
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Craig
McEvoy with "Shoulders" at 51lb 4oz left and “Breezeblock"
at 56lb 4oz during a week trip to Lac les Pins. Craig banked 10 fish
during the week including 2 x50's, 3 x40's, 3 x 30's and 2 upper 20's.
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Another
end of season cracking this one going 33lb 12oz. Banked by Lewis
Read during a last night of the season trip to White Swan.
Icelandic Red with C&C doing the business
yet again.
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RED LETTER DAY
Another 48hr
Monks Pool session. Conditions looked good for a bite with
Southerly winds and odd outbreaks of rain forecast for the
duration. Arrived mid morning on the friday and set up camp for
the weekend, already having an idea of the whereabouts of where
they were hiding. Usually one to use small baiting tactics I had
been thinking that things were right for a big hit and so
decided to put out a kilo over each rod (thanks to Jules and Bob
at Carp Company for sorting me out - nice one lads). Brew, smoke
and relieved not to be working there couldn't be a happier
camper on the island and things got a whole lot better when one
of the rods was away. Getting proper beat up but eventually
winning the fight I was rewarded with a fish that hadn't seen
the bank since last April. On the scales Chunky went 36lb 2oz -
get in!! Saturday didn't really prove to fruitful other than
seeing 2 fish bosh out but I was happy with the rods and just
topped up the spots with another kilo on each rod. Sunday was to
prove a different story and whilst listening to The blues
playing Villa on the radio another of the rods was away. A
really slow plodding fight told me it was a better fish and it
turned into a proper heart stopper of a fight as the colour had
dropped out of the water and visibility was good to say the
least! After 20 minutes and a proper beating she rolled over the
net cord and my mate John scooped up my prize. The fish turned
out to be the former IOW record fish The Boxer and although down
in weight she turned the needle round to 42lb 12oz what a
result! Piccies done, Happy Days and time for a Guinness!!
Things really didn't have to get any better but when your lucks
in you've got to grab it with both hands and so the rods were
re-done and another kilo of the red on each spot completed the
traps. A good nights kip was all that Saturday night produced
but I couldn't complain and I decided that it looked good for a
bite so decided that a quick top up of 30 baits on each spot was
a plan. Brekkie and a cuppa were next on the agenda but not
before I had made a few phone calls to try and wangle Sunday
night!! Success with the phone call meant I could forget about
packing up early and put my feet up for the rest of the morning
after all I was happy with things and the football was due to
start soon. Evening was on it's way so deciding on an early
dinner I got everything ready when the right hand rod was away.
On it straight away and things were feeling exceedingly heavy so
I decided to let the fish do it's thing and tire itself out.
After five minutes things were starting to go in my favor and so
I moved the net down into position, a couple more minutes and
over the cord sailed a lump. After securing the net I made a
quick call to a mate who said he'd be over in 30 minutes and so
I decided to brew up until the cavalry arrived! Help was soon
here and a few choice words let out as it turned out to be none
other than the Leather - jobs a good'un - up on the Reubons and
the needle of truth settled at 41lb 5oz - awesome!! Loads of
piccies and a quick slurp on the bottle of bubbly that the
cavalry fetched down to celebrate and time to reflect on what a
weekend it had been - 2 x 40's and a 36 made for good reading. I
decided to reel the other rods in for the night and get some
well earned rest before work mid morning tomorrow - and that's
what they call happy camping!!!
In his own words from Taffy, top result
mate
Again the Icelandic Red with C&C do
the job!
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John
Morley from Sandown on the Isle of Wight with a handful of cracking 30lb+
Mirrors!! Top left is "The Pet" at 33lb 14oz, top right is
"Charlie big Spuds" at 34lb, bottom left is "Split" at
32lb 8oz and bottom right is "Rosie" at 39lb 2oz!
All these fish came from Tim Oatley`s
Rookley Country Park and it looks like its well worth a vist!
John caught all of these lumps using a
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Here
we have Oscar Thornton with a brace of 20lb+ Mirrors. Below is
Oscar's own words about the capture
" I
thought that I should send in the pictures of my cracking weekend's
fishing. When I arrived the carp park was empty so I thought I had
the whole lake to myself as I started to get my kit out the car someone
turned up in the carp park it was my mate Matt he had come down for the
weekend as well. we both set off around the lake looking for any signs
of carp. Walking into peg 9 we saw a few fish show at about
100yards so we flipped a coin and the swim was mine! . Because it was
winter I opted to fish a 16mm Aminol Acid tipped with a 10mm pink pop up
in a solid bag of crushed boilie and pellets. I cast two rods
100yard out into the middle were the fish had been seen and dropped
the other rod at about 50yards out on the edge of a drop off.
During the evening I had nothing and I soon drifted off to sleep. I
awoke at 2:30am to the sound of rain beating down on my bivvy. I laid
awake and listened to the sound of the rain and as I did there was a
single bleep followed by a screaming run. After a long and hard
fight I had it in the net I could see it was a big fish for the lake and
went and got Matt we put it on the scales and it went 20lb 2oz! I
was over the moon and couldn't get to sleep after that. In the morning
rods were recast to the same spots and at 9:30 am a few bleeps and
another take came and I bent into the rod only to find it was weeded
up. Keeping the pressure on the fish came free and without any
drama I played her to just in front of me where it sprung into life and
I had to played her for a further 15minutes. We could all se it was a
big fish and finally we got it in the net, it went 23lb 8oz on the
scales and we think that is the first brace of 20s to come out of the
lake."
Well done Oscar, great photos and a
lovely report mate, keep them coming! Good
to meet you the other day at the Big One Show
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The
ever consistent Danny Caen with a Winter caught stunner! Dan bank this
stunning Mirror during a recent trip to Linch Hill using the Winter Red
with Sweet Cream and Cranberry EPAs.
As always Dan well done mate and thanks
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Right
then how about this for a stunning Common!! This 48lb cracker was caught
by Ben during a week session on Red Mills, France. Just part of a
multi fish catch which all fell to the Ice Red with C&C. |
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Again
another new face to the catch report pages, this is Simon Mercer with a
27lb 6oz Mirror banked using the Icelandic Red with Cav and Cran.
It was nice to meet you guys at the Big
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This
is James Gadd with a Common of 26lb 2oz from New Marske Reservoir which is
the biggest from the water during 2010! James also banked over 100
other carp during the year using the Icelandic Red with C&C. Top
angling mate! |
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Danny
Caen with a couple of Winter caught crackers during a session at Linch
Hill. Left is a 40lb 2oz Common known as "Crinkle Tail"
and right is a hard fighting 36lb 10oz Common, both fish falling to the
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A
couple of cracking Mirrors banked by John Morley from Sandown on the Isle
of Wight. Both fish fell to a undisclosed Carp Company bait during
trips to Tim Oatley`s Rookley Country Park.
Left is the "Twin" at 33lb and
right is "Rosie" at 35lb 4oz
Top angling John and that bait is just
so nice, good choice! |
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Here
we have Reuben Loake with his new PB of 37.2 from Rookley Country
Park.In Reuben own words "Caught on the legendary Icelandic Red"
Well said mate, top angling!!
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Jason
Drew with a new PB form Lac Sebastian, this lump turn the scales to 51lb
4oz! and fell to 24mm Natural Impact. Well done Jay top angling. |
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Taffy
Woodhouse - In his own words!
Turned up at Monks Pool for my first
48hr session a week after it had reopened on a Friday night after work
with the weather looking just about right for ducks and a few fat kippers!
Having been down Wednesday night for a bit of a wreckie to get an idea of
what they had changed in their underwater office. The marker rod revealed
some harder areas had appeared at the bottom of the marginal slope in
front of the swim I fancied and with a depression also pin pointed at
30yrds range a light sprinkling of the Red was deposited ready for the
weekend. With all the kit soaked after the walk down to the pool setting
up would have been a chore if it didn't look so peach. Rods out and a
sneaky Guinness on the go by 7pm everything looked just about right and
just after dark we were away with the right hand rod at the bottom of the
shelf. A cracking fight and a right soaking was the prelude to my second
biggest UK common which pulled the scales round to just over 35lb and what
a peach of a fish. Piccies done and a celebratory slurp and ciggie before
time to change into something dry, some grub and then bed. Sleep lasted
until 3am when the depression rod was away and another soaking ensued.
Another good fight and into the net she went - happy days!! With the rod
rebaited with the red, paced out and clipped up it was back on the spot
within 10 minutes whilst the fish recovered in the net. Piccies and
handshakes all round and another 30 on the cards. Now not having any dry
clothes left the coleman was put on to try and dry some out and a quick
brew before trying to get some zeds. Light came and it was still looking
peachy, but happy with the rods I decided to just brew up and have a bacon
butty which set things up for the day. Just after 10am the marginal slope
rod was away again - heaven!! After 10minutes of a carp trying to do it's
best Houdini impression another mirror was sitting in the bottom of the
net and up on the scales it turned out to be another 30. Wet, stinking and
a can of Guinness to celebrate it was home time for this happy
camper.
Thanks to John and Spence for the
piccies
Also the bottom pic is a fish from
another session on Monks Pool this time turning the scales to 42lb
2oz. All fish falling to the Icelandic Red C&C in 14mm fished as
a snowman wit a 12mm white coconut pop-up
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New
PB for Richard Dean during a recent session on Shiplate Lake. All
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Nice
to see a new face to the catch report page, this is Mark Lester with three
great looking Carp. The first two are from a London Park Lake, top
left is 34lb 1oz and top right is 40lb 3oz.
The bottom picture is a 29lb 4oz Mirror
that was banked from the River Thames, all fish were caught using the
Icelandic Red.
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Three
cracking looking fish from Danny Caen. Top left is 34lb, top
right is 38lb and the common is a stunning 42lb 4oz. All the fish
were caught from Linch hill leisure park Oxfordshire using the Icelandic
Red with Caviar & Cranberry.
As always Danny, top angling mate! |
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Nice
to see this face grace our catch reports! Lewis Read with a new PB common
at 36.10 known as ‘The Long Common’ from Dinton pastures. Gardner
Tackle employee banked the fish using the Icelandic Red with Caviar and
Cranberry 18mm’s on a Choddy (20Ib Tripwire and size 6 Chod hook)
fished over the top of and then up tight to a weed bed on a very
hard spot they had been rolling over at about 45 yards. Well done Lewis
this is a cracking looking common.
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Another
new face to the catch report page, this is Stephen Leeson with just a
couple of the many fish that he has banked since switching onto Carp
Company baits.
All the fish shown have been banked
using the Icelandic Red with C&C during trips to Selby Syndicate Lake.
Thanks for the reports mate, keep them
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New
to Carp Company baits is Oscar Thornthorn, and he is off to a flyer with
this stunning 20lb+ mirror that fell to the Icelandic Red with
C&C.
Keep it up Oscar. |
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Dean Webb with a 32lb 12oz common caught
at Bury Hill Fisheries Temple Lakes from peg 5 casting to left
hand island close to reed bed. Caught on Carp Company Icelandic red 14mm
caviar and cranberry boilie with 50 freebies and 1kg of Bloodworm
pellet. Also caught on the 48 hour session was 24lb 2oz common.
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Here
are a couple of cracking photos sent to us by Tim Smart both are 30lb+
fish from his Southern Pit. Both fish falling to our new X-TC in
14mm. Told you it would all come good in the end mate!!
Well
done, top angling mate |
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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.
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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!!
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Long
time Carp Company user Chris "Starman" Hull with the big mirror
from St Georges Lake, Sheperton. This 43lb 3oz lump of a fish was
banked using "Starries" ever faithful Icelandic Red with Crab
& Cranberry mix. And takes his tally to 85 fish for the season
so far. Great result "Starrie" and thanks for the photos
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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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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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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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