I caught my first ever carp on a piece of bread at Darenth lake in Kent in 1967 when I was 10 and my first carp over 20lbs at Moorlane in the winter of 1972 on a tiny piece of luncheon meat. I soon started using ‘special pastes’ moulded around the hook: my [...]

Basically I have been fishing since God was a lad and still love every minute of it, particularly my time spent on large windswept gravel pits and when engaged in new challenges. Having started my fishing on smaller, silty, lakes in Sussex I then moved on to gravel pits around the Chichester area, [...]

I’m a self diagnosed obsessed carp angler. A lot of anglers are now instant carp anglers and if you have the money or the backing you can fish for big fish with little knowledge, which is something that I strongly disagree with. I began fishing when I was around 10 and I used [...]

For me the fishing started around 30 years ago, with a stick, a hook and some line. Fishing for rudd and roach at the local canal with the family. After a few years, on a trip to a local lake and seeing someone catch a massive carp, I was hooked. Over the years, [...]

Rick is an experienced big fish angler who has been carp fishing for over 25 years. He is solely interested in the pursuit of big, English carp, and has fished a number of well known waters, including the Road lake, Crayfish Pool, Wellington Country Park, Dinton and more recently a private Surrey syndicate [...]

I was first introduced to fishing when I was 11. My Uncle John, took me along to one of the Christchurch Angling club open days, where I fished with Andy Little and caught a double figure carp. From that day I was hooked!

I'm a 23 year old mad keen angler fishing in and around leafy surrey. Most of the angling I do is on still waters hunting for carp relatively close to home, occasionally having a dabble for other species on both still waters and rivers. I started fishing from a very young age [...]

During my 25 years fishing for carp I have had the  privilege of fishing waters such as Yateley, Horton,  Kingsmead; and I am currently on the Road Lake on the legendary Longfield complex of lakes in pursuit of a couple of special fish to add to my portfolio (as well as a very [...]

Sophie started fishing at the age of 4 fishing for small carp at a local estate lake with her dad. It was her dad that got her into fishing. She started fishing the river as she got older for carp, barbel and chub and absolutely loves being outside in the fresh air. Now [...]

I have been fishing since the age of five, initially catching small roach and perch. As I hit my early teens Tench became an obsession, then pike and eventually carp. I have been carp angling for over 35 years now and have fished a whole host of waters; from 2-acre puddles to [...]

I started going fishing in my late teens. To start with I began fishing for anything with a float or ledger rod and was happy catching silver fish and tench. Then one day I went to a local canal and caught my first carp. It wasn’t huge but it gave me such a buzz [...]

As a lifelong angler I have enjoyed many aspects of the sport in both salt and fresh water. Amongst my favourite fishing memories are my first fish, a small perch, catching an 8lb Bass from the beach and winning a match with a haul of Thames bream. From a pleasure fisherman I developed into [...]

I've fished for over 30 years for all different species. I started fishing in small streams for Chub and Barbel, constantly on the move and baiting different areas, always watching the fish and learning along the way. I try to apply the same principles to my carp fishing; pre-baiting and learning where the fish [...]