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This colossal 85lb 8oz mirror has been landed last week by a UK angler known to his friends as Darren 'The Pond'. Presenting a Solar Chilli Club bottom bait topped with a Solar Aniseed & Bun Spice pop-up over a bed of Chilli Club freebies the experienced angler from the south of England landed the huge mirror, known as the Ken Dodd fish, from Swim 5 on Rainbow Lake in southern France. Full details of the capture are not yet known, but this is widely thought to be the biggest carp landed so far in 2015. .

TC reader Carl Cook says: I recently found the need to fish from the luxury of a decked swim and required a solution to support my rods. JAG has solved the problem with these brilliant Stage Bites. I found the stainless-steel pieces to be of excellent quality, as you would expect from this brand. I currently use the matching stainless kit from JAG, although the inserts will accept any standard-thread buzz bar.

Marc Coulson’s verdict. . . Easy to use and extremely reliable.

Big-carp expert and Solar team member Alijn Danau has landed an incredible 50 carp in excess of 44lb (20kg) in just 12 months. Eighteen of these were landed from local waters in the Belgian-based angling writer’s home country, with the remaining 32 carp in excess of 44lb being landed from other countries. The bulk of the fish were caught using Solar Tackle’s Seafood Take-Away and new Chilli Club boilies, with the 50th huge carp coming in the last minute of his final session of 2014! Alijn Danau explains:“It was never my aim to catch 50 fish over 44lb (20kg) in a year, but when I found myself landing number 47 in November, I was encouraged by friends to try and go for the ‘big 50’ and I thought, ‘well why not?’ “I still had a winter trip scheduled on Rainbow Lake in front of me, so it looked to be achievable, although not easy. Incredibly, on the second day of the six-day December session I caught two, one of 20.