LATEST ADDITIONS

Big result on second visit to syndicate. This 43lb 12oz lump came as reward for a 48 session on a southern syndicate water for angler Bryan Jarrett. During only his second trip to the venue, Bryan targeted a gully between two weedbeds in around 5feet of water a 60yards range. “The weather during the day was extremely windy until the night and then very cold and calm for the rest of the trip,” said Bryan.

Charity carp day raises over £5,000 for kids with special needs. The Fox-backed Shane and Friends Charity event at the Nunnery fishing lakes in Norfolk has been hailed as a major success by event organizer Mark Taylor. The event involved a match on Bobs Lake (won by Brian Harper) plus casting competitions, bivvy erection competitions and rig demonstrations. There was also an auction and a huge raffle and in total £5385 was raised for Chapel Road School, in Attenborough, Norfolk, which looks after kids with special needs.

Learn about how 'The Don's' life-long love of carp was formed with Derek Ritchie: The Early Years 

Don’t miss the exclusive interview with Derek ‘The Don’ Ritchie in the latest issue of video magazine Carp Channel Monthly. Derek is now in his sixties yet his obsession with carp fishing is not diminished – the man who has been with Mainline since the beginning is still fishing four times a week. 

In this first part of three, Derek talks about his first 30 years – from his introduction to carp fishing in Southend through to his partnership with Rod Hutchinson and his capture of the Essex carp record at 36lb. As you would expect with any interview with ‘The Don’, it’s compulsive viewing and littered with great stories; including his pioneering use of black eyed beans with tomato soup; and how he once ‘jacked in his job’ and ‘lived’ on an island for a while to concentrate on his carp fishing!

The programme includes some never-seen-before black and white photographs of some of the carp he caught through the 1970s….

Famous carp water to reopen following clean bill of health from scientists. Tests on the fish of the famous Horseshoe Lake have been carried out following a spate of mystery deaths at the venue – with the results showing disease was not to blame. Over 60 specimen carp are estimated to have inexplicably perished since spring, leading CEFAS scientist to conduct stringent virology tests to determine the cause. However two rounds of examinations have come back negative of any trace of disease in the venue’s valuable stocks.