FIPSed Carp Fishing World Championship, Pietrafitta, Italy 24-27th September 2014 Match Report by Ian Huntington, Korda Carp Team Manager The 16th FIPSed World Carp Angling Championship took place from 24th – 27th September at Lake Pietrafitta, situated in the Umbria region of central Italy. 24 Nations took from all over the world with the event […]
England 4th as Croatia win gold at World Carp Champs
Biggest ever carp brace
Cutting Edge Products user Warren Harrison visited Hungary’s Euro Aqua and bagged the biggest carp brace of all time, two fish for 181lb!!The monsters of 94lb and 87lb fell to the Manchester angler’s double boilie offerings over a bed of particle baits. The venue hit the headlines when it produced the world carp record at […]
Police Chief pledges to act on fish theft
The Angling Trust has won support from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to ensure that all Chief Officers in England and Wales will receive training about poaching and fish theft, and pass this on to their operational staff. The National Policing Lead for Wildlife & Rural Crime, Simon Prince (Chief Constable of […]
Irish Record Carp Banked
After arriving back from a two-week holiday in Benidorm, Ryan Creighton called around to his ‘carp crazy’ friend Jack Day. They head out to Lough Gall which hosts a stunning and wild 38-acre park lake with depths to over 40ft.” Ryan and Jack hit some of the monsters of the lake – the cream of […]
Dave Lane Lands The Burghfield Common At 55lb 5oz
Carp legend has banked the famous Burghfield common carp at a whacking 55lb 5oz. Dave was fishing a swim he’d been permission to create by the bailiff, casting to a spot near a buoy. Anglers are allows to use boats to land fish at the Hampshire venue’s Main Lake and it’s said to have towed […]
Barston Lakes Carp Record Tops 35lb
The carp record at Barston Lakes has been broken with a 35lb 6oz mirror – landed by a pleasure angler who was only using a size 16 hook! George Johnson was enjoying the Solihull venue’s silver fish on peg 117 and F1 sport when the big fish picked up his floatfished pellets offering fished under […]
Carp Showroom To Open At Bristol Angling Centre
Bristol Angling Centre is proud to announce the forthcoming opening of its new Carp Showroom on Saturday June 7th, 2014. The impressive 6000ft space will include all of the major carp brands, and there will be loads of opening day special offers to take advantage of. To mark the opening, owner Paul Dicks has […]
USA Enters World Carp Fishing Champs
THE USA is to enter the World Carp Fishing Championships for the first time in 2014. The team has been selected during a series of trials and is looking forward to the 16th running of the event, which takes place in Romania in October. Tony Forte of USAngling/USF3 explains, “We are very excited to compete […]
Fully Scaled Frimley ‘38’ For Jerry Hammond
Jerry Hammond is at the top of his carp fishing game at the moment and his latest impressive capture through what’s been a tough winter for many is this magnificent 38lb fully-scaled mirror carp from Frimley No3. Jerry, star of the Compulsive Angler series was fishing the venue near Farnborough using a Zig rig approach […]
Jon McAllister Joins Atomic
Carp fishing legend Jon McAllister has joined the Atomic team. An Atomic spokesman said: “It goes without saying that we are very happy to have Jon on board. He is far more than a promotional tool to us, as with all our team Jon is a consultant in the truest sense. Jon’s style of fishing […]
American Carp Record – VIDEO
Raphael Biagini is claiming the biggest carp every caught in the USA using legitimate angling tactics – this 54lb 8oz common carp. And Total-Fishing.com is the first to post video of the amazing capture – see below. If the video fails to load first time, try refreshing the page. The Quantum Radical test fisherman said: […]
115-pound carp brace
Radical-Carp newcomer Tobias Krämer embarked on a night session on a large German gravel pit in the Ruhr area to test some new boilies for the 2014 season – and bagged a brace of giant carp. Krämer landed the first, a huge common carp of 25.1 kg (55 lb 6′), in the late afternoon using […]
FIPSed Criticised Over World Carp Championships
Caption: Ali Hamidi – highly critical of the venue selection for the 2013 World Carp Championships. The official World Carp Championships has come in for some stick for the second year running. In 2012 many of the teams found out too late that the carp in Romania’s Lac Corbu had been pre-conditioned to feed at […]
Dutch Ladies Pairing Wins 2013 World Carp Classic
The landscape of competition carp fishing has been redrawn by two Dutch masters after a week of building tension in the picturesque Italian countryside. The 2013 World Carp Classic trophy went to Lizette Beunders 43 and Bianca Venema 37, who brushed aside their opposition to win by one of the biggest margins, over 173 Kgs […]
Kev Grout Wins 2013 UK Carp Cup
Battling horrendous conditions and a final line-up of the quality we had never seen the likes of before meant this year’s Carp Cup champion would be even more of a deserved winner, but who would emerge from 40-hours of top end competition and leave with the coveted UKCC trophy? The weeks leading up to the […]
