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Total Carp Staff | Sep 07, 2012 | First Published: Sep 06, 2012 | 0 comments

Monster carp for Belgian ace. Having targeted two big mirror carp for the past couple of years without success, the last thing that Belgian ace Roger Smit expected was to bank them both in the same session!In a remarkable day, Roger took the first target fish, a 42lb 12oz (19. 4kg) mirror, just five minutes after starting. Unbelievably, he took the fish on his first ever cast using Club Mix boilies, with the second target fish, another mirror this time of 38lb 6oz (17.

Briggs & Crowe Sign For Nash

Total Carp Staff | Sep 06, 2012 | 0 comments

Nash Sign Two New Anglers. Nash Tackle this week confirmed that they had secured two new additions to their already impressive list of consultants, in the shape of top carpers Steve Briggs and Simon Crow. In a deal that will see the lads contracted to Nash with bait and tackle for the next three years Kevin Nash revealed: “To say that I am delighted would be an understatement! I have known Simon since he was a young man. In fact, his first mainstream consultancy was with Nash almost twenty years ago, and he and Rob Hughes won the first World Carp Cup whilst fishing with Nashbait""I will say what I said a year ago to someone watching Simon fish, he is without doubt one of the top three most focused and driven anglers I have ever seen.

Kye Smashes Somerset Syndicate

Total Carp Staff | Sep 05, 2012 | 0 comments

Massive carp falls to Splash Baits. Splash Baits consultant Kye Smith has taken a 29-12-0 beast from his local syndicate water, just three weeks after joining. The Exeter based rod caught the monster carp over the companies new pellet mix- a tactic he made a video demonstrating just a week before. “I kept an eye on the weather throughout the days leading up to a session just to get an idea of what could be happening down at the lake.

Skillz Banks The Humpy

Total Carp Staff | Sep 04, 2012 | 0 comments

Dutch angler nets 63-8-0 carp! Big carp guru Ed Skillz has relived the moment when he banked the 63-8-0 French carp known as Humpy, from the famous Abbey Lakes complex. He is currently working on a new series of videos, that showcase his approach to specimen carp fishing, as part of his www. carpcrossing. com website.

50lb Fish Die At Church Pool

Total Carp Staff | Aug 31, 2012 | 0 comments

Fish found dead at Essex Lake. Nash Tackle boss Kevin Nash told of his distress at the death of two fifty pound fish from his Essex water big fish water, Church Pool. The report comes just days after news of an oxygen crash which saw a total of six fish die, following an algae bloom. He told Angling News Week: “Contrary to popular belief, it is not actually the algae bloom that kills the fish, but as the micro organisms die they draw the oxygen from the water –which is what causes levels to crash.

Tc Tackle Awards 2014

Total Carp Staff | Aug 29, 2012 | 0 comments

Vote for your favourite gear and win!Click on the button below now and vote for what you think is the best tackle and bait of the last year. As well as the chance to let the world know what’s worth spending your hard-earned on, one participant will be drawn at random and win a goody box from the TC offices worth at least £250. . .

Huge Polish Carp Banked

Total Carp Staff | Aug 28, 2012 | 0 comments

Massive fish falls to Solar boilies. Jan Zowada has set tongues wagging with the capture of a 61lb 11oz mirror. The previously unknown fish fell to Solar Club Mix boilies, and came from a large gravel pit just outside the city of Katowice in southern Poland. This is Jan’s biggest carp to date and was a capture that both surprised and thrilled the experienced angler.

Bank Holiday App Bonanza

Total Carp Staff | Aug 24, 2012 | 0 comments

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Accessories

Nash Refresh Water Bucket

Total Carp Staff | Aug 23, 2012 | 0 comments

Another neat idea from Nash and designed to use for pouring water over carp while on the mat. It collapses away in between use, which is handy, although I do have real problems getting the toggles undone sometimes and feel that these could be improved upon. Other than that, the Refresh Water Bucket is an essential bit of kit and I take mine everywhere. It’s also handy for testing rigs in before casting out.

Bait

Cc Moore Hellraisers Pop Ups

Total Carp Staff | Aug 23, 2012 | 0 comments

I was sent a tub of each flavour of these and asked to take them out and give them a whirl. I immediately discarded the black ones because they made me wretch! I am sure that the carp will like them, though. So far I have caught carp on all of the others, but the orange Fatal Attraction (smell like Chocolate Orange) and pink Optical Illusion (smell like the Old Indian Spice) have by far been the best performers, with the latter being my absolute favourite. I use the small, round pop-ups inside PVA bags and they’re quite easy to balance, especially if they’ve been soaked for a while in the matching liquid.

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