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Total Carp Staff | Mar 29, 2012 | First Published: Mar 28, 2012 | 0 comments

Big Lakes The Steak hit's the bank during match for good cause. Boreham Wood angler Mick Richards made his first ever visit to Kent’s Darenth Big Lake count last weekend, taking this 46lb 14oz specimen during a two-day stint on the water. Known as The Steak, the carp provided the only action for the angler during a charity match at the venue, falling to Mick’s approach of spodding mixed particles over the back of a gravel bar. “I was targeting a gravel bar and didn’t have a touch, but then the bailiff said that over the back of the bar there was a silty gully where the carp are often found so I targeted that,” Mick told Total Carp.

48hour Record Smashed

Total Carp Staff | Mar 27, 2012 | 0 comments

England trial sees carping duo bank over 2300lb of fish! The 48hour carp match record has been broken during last weekend’s trials for places in the 2012 Korda Carp Team. Taking place at Daventry’s Drayton Reservoir, 11 pairs of anglers took to the bank for the 48hour endure trial, but it was the duo of Mark Bartlett and Kev Hewitt that really found the fish – landing no less than 2310lb of carp over the two days. The huge weight taken by the two anglers formed part of the overall combined total of all 22 anglers, which stood at a mammoth 9418lb from 846 carp, with the biggest specimen of the weekend being a fish of 21lb 2oz. “We had some of the best carp anglers in the country here and it really showed, the amount of fish coming to the bank was just unreal – I was knackered and I wasn’t even fishing,” Drayton Bailiff Mark Rider told Total Carp.

Dave Springall

Total Carp Staff | Mar 27, 2012 | 0 comments

I must start my first TC dairy piece by apologising to the editor! Marc asked me to start this a few weeks ago but with the barrage of winter Carp Shows, moving my business from one town to another and being snowed under with my work for Baitcraft I have hardly found time to breathe let alone write or even go fishing! Much of the drama seems to be over now for the time being at least so let the blog season commence. I decided to spend the vast majority of the winter with the family in order to earn a good few brownie points for the fast approaching spring season, good thinking eh? This thought process has seen me do little to no fishing at all since October and I have to admit the break has been nice. I did however manage to do a couple of nights on Fryerning Fisheries in sub zero conditions and managed a 34lb 8oz Koi from the Main Lake and a 12 fish haul up to 22lb from the Car Park Lake, both on quick overnighters so it wasn’t all doom and gloom. The only other trip I really had was just after the big freeze a few weeks ago when I made the trip with the Baitcraft camera guy up to the prolific Thorpe Lea fishery in Surrey for a twenty hour session and a spot of filming for the Baitcraft YouTube channel.

Angling Direct Korda Day

Total Carp Staff | Mar 27, 2012 | 0 comments

Not to be missed event sees two of carping's big stars visit Norwich tackle super store. Two top carping stars will be hosting an open day this weekend at one of Norfolk’s biggest tackle stores. Korda and Daiwa stars Paul Harris and Darrell Peck will be at the heart of an open day at Norwich’s Angling Direct store to give you the benefit of there vast carping experience. Coming armed with a host of new products, the boys will walk you through rigs, tactics and give you the tips to put more fish on the bank.

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