Pictured above is Kirk Phoenix from Helesdon, Norwich with a cracking 25lb carp. Kirk is a season ticket holder at Anglian water Taverham Mill, and had this fish along with four others in the space of an hour. He used a single pop-up with a small pva bag to tempt the fish

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Here's lovely 23lb 8oz common carp caught on the 5.2.2005 by Alan Campbell.
Alan caught this fish from peg 29/30 at the very prolific Pendle View Fisheries

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Here's Shaun Cutts with a cracking 30lb 8oz mirror carp caught from Linear Fisheries, St. Johns. He tempted the fish with hair-rigged maize with PVA halibut pellet bag.
It was caught during a 3 day session and took Shaun about 15 minutes to land the fish

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Here's 14 year old Ryan Whiffin with a stunning 22lb 8oz common carp
from Whittlesford Pit near Cambridge

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River Ebro clonker for Steve

On a trip to the famous River Ebro under the guidance of Martin Walker, Steve from Lancaster, landed this magnificent 31lb Common. He went on to land another six over 20lb and two at 17lb and 19lb (!)

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Here's Shane Salmon with a lovely 24lb 9oz Mirror caught from Hooksted, Kings North in Kent. Shane used Maple Eight boilies to tempt the fish.

It's a PB for Shane who has been fishing since he was eight years old.

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First carp ever - weighing 32lb!!

Here's Roz Clive with a stunning 32lb common carp from Oakhill Leisure, Swinderby, Lincoln.

Roz who has only been fishing for 3 months - and is more used to landing bream and roach to 2lb was delighted to have latched onto this enormous carp!

It took Roz just 10 minutes to land her fish of a lifetime. Unbelievably it was her first ever carp!

Congratulations Roz - it's an amazing catch - we're all envious of you here at A.T. - Ed

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Personal best for Paul

Here's Paul Capon with a lovely 20lb Common caught from Oakhill Leisure, Swinderby, Lincoln
After a long, very stormy night he managed to tempt this fish at 7.30 in the morning using double Source boilies as bait. It beat his previous PB by some 12lb

Notice how big the tail is on this common - that's a proper paddle! - Ed

Oct. 04

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Pictured above is ace angler - Mick Fells.

Mick sent us a quite a few 'trophy shots' - but we decided to use this picture
of a stunning Barlow Fisheries 28lb+ Linear Mirror Carp.
Mick caught the fish using a size 16 hook tied straight through to 6lb line,
coupled with a lightweight waggler rod.
For bait he crammed six red maggots onto the barbless hook!
The fight lasted for over 40 minutes before he finally managed to net the fish.

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Adrian Wilson of Rossendale with a stunning 35lb 6oz Common from Pendle View Fisheries.
It was worked out that he caught over 204lb of carp during his weekend session.
This fish is affectionately known as 'Butt Head'

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Gary Smith with a 24lb 8oz Mirror Carp Gary landed the fish from Linear Fisheries
, Oxlease Lake, using a popped-up pellet at 30 yards out.

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Here's Ben Crackles with a 23lb 8oz Mirror caught from Angling Projects'
water at Wraysbury. The mirror fell to a pop-up boilie

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FISHING fanatic Dave Williams has landed his biggest catch on a trawl of the fishing lakes of France.

Prolific Dave (41), who is known in Hucknall as ‘Stax’, caught this 51lbs whopper on his latest holiday in Le Quis.

The common carp was a personal record for Dave, who has been fishing for 35 years.

He previous best was a 41lbs carp as part of an 18-fish catch last November.

He said: "As I brought the fish in, my rod was bent like I have never seen before. I knew it was very big but when it was weighed on the bank, I was ecstatic.
"In fishing terms, this completely eclipses anything I have ever done."

Dave, of Bolingey Way, caught the fish using a piece of sweetcorn instead of the specialist bait many anglers now use. Only eight carp weighing more than 50lbs have ever been landed on the particular stretch of water, which is known as The Long Lake.

The catch completed a successful week for father-of-two Dave, who landed 15 fish, including two of 33lbs and one of 31lbs.

And it rounded off a bumper year for the self-employed gardener, who runs Hucknall firm Will’s Gardening Services.

His next ambition is to return to France to catch a mysterious fish named ‘Little Joe’, which weighs in at more than 50lbs and hasn’t been caught this year.

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Dan Leone pictured with a superb 28 lb Carp taken from Costessey No3 Lake

Here's a lovely common carp caught by Tom Binder whilst fishing at Brookes Farm Fishery.
Tom used a shellfish boilie to tempt this scale-perfect fish.
Nov. 05