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Tackle Awards 2011
Total Carp Staff  |  Dec 06, 2011  |  0 comments
You voted and now the results are in for the Total Carp Tackle Awards 2011. The votes for the Total Carp Tackle Awards 2011 are in. You, our readers and website visitors, have spoken, voting for your best tackle, companies, bait, venues, anglers and carping items of 2011 - and here are the results. BEST BIVVY 1st Trakker Armo MK2 2nd Nash Titan 3rd Aqua carbon CompactBEST BROLLY 1st Aqua Products Fast & Light 2nd Nash Titan Brolly 3rd Wychwood Solace HDBEST CARP FISHING BOOK 1st Ali Hamidi’s carp Fishing Masterclass 2nd In Pursuit Of The Largest – Terry Hearn 3rd Catching The Impossible – Martin BowlerBEST MAIL-ORDER SHOP/WEBSITE 1st Eric’s Angling 2nd Climax Tackle 3rd Chapman’s AnglingBEST CARP FISHING FILM, DVD OR TV SERIES 1st Korda Tackle Tips & Tactics 2nd Korda Thinking Tackle 3rd Korda State of The Art Underwater Carp FishingBEST TERMINAL TACKLE 1st Korda 2nd Nash 3rd FoxBEST BRAIDED MAIN LINE 1st Berkley Whiplash 2nd Powerpro 3rd Gardner HydrosinkBEST HOOK LINK RANGE 1st Korda 2nd Kryston 3rd SufixBEST FLUOROCARBON LINE 1st X Line 2nd Korda Kontour 3rd Fox Illusion XSBEST MONOFILAMENT LINE 1st Korda Subline 2nd Korda Adrenaline 3rd Daiwa SensorBEST PVA RANGE 1st Carp Craze 2nd Korda 3rd ESPBEST BITE ALARM 1st Delkim 2nd Fox NTXr 3rd Nash SirenBEST CLOTHING 1st Diem 2nd Jack Pyke 3rd ESPBEST BEDCHAIR 1st Nash Indulgence 2nd JRC Extreme 3rd TFGearBEST LUGGAGE 1st Nash Barrowlogix 2nd Aqua Endura 3rd Fox FXBEST BAIT BOAT 1st Waverunner MK3 2nd Angling Technics Microcat 3rd Viper MK3BEST PREPARED PARTICLES 1st Dynamite Baits Frenzied Range 2nd CC Moore 3rd Cotswold Bait CreationsBEST PELLETS 1st Dynamite Baits 2nd CC Moore 3rd Mainline BaitsBEST BOILIES 1st Mainline Cell 2nd Nash Monster Squid 3rd CC Moore Odyssey XXXBEST COMPACT REEL 1st Shimano Baitrunner XTR-RA 2nd Shimano Ultegra 5500 XT-B 3rd Daiwa Regal XBEST BIG-PIT REEL 1st Shimano Aero Technium 12000 XTA 2nd Daiwa Basia QDX 3rd Fox Stratos FS12000BEST CARP ROD OVER £150 1st Daiwa Infinity DF 2nd Harrison Torrix 3rd Century NCSBEST ROD UNDER £150 1st Fox Warrior S 2nd Chub Outkast Plus 3rd Wychwood SolaceBEST FOREIGN HOLIDAY COMPANY 1st Angling Lines 2nd Crete Lakes 3rd French carp AdventuresBEST DAY-TICKET VENUE 1st Linear Fisheries 2nd CEMEX Sandhurst 3rd Bluebell LakesBEST BAIT ROLLING COMPANY 1st Kent Particles 2nd Bait & Feed Company 3rd ACE BaitsBEST EMERGING BAIT COMPANY 1st Chapel Baits 2nd Innovate Baits 3rd Blake’s BaitsCARP ANGLER OF THE YEAR 1st Danny Fairbrass 2nd Dave Lane 3rd Jim Shelley.
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Winter Carping Success
Total Carp Staff  |  Dec 02, 2011  |  0 comments
Bartropp's winter campaign starts in style as new bait fools a forty. Top carper Leon Bartropp had a dream start to his winter campaign recently with the capture of this 41lb 7oz specimen on his very first trip. Targeting a new water, the sales manager at Sticky Baits settled into a swim for maiden winter session, placing his baits near a small island. Field-testing a new boilie from Sticky, Leon set down a bed of feed over an area of dark silt, before presenting the 16mm bait blowback snowman rig style using a 12mm Buchu Berry popup on top.
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Richworth Price Drop
Total Carp Staff  |  Dec 02, 2011  |  0 comments
Bait firm wishes carpers a happy New Year with price reduction from January. Great news and good start to 2012 for fans of Richworth boilies. The company has announced that from January 1 all it’s 1kg bags of frozen and shelf-life baits will drop down in price. The reduction will see the kilo bags go from £11.
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Half Price At Orchid
Total Carp Staff  |  Dec 01, 2011  |  0 comments
Popular thirties water offers winter discount carping. Oxfordshire venue Orchid Lakes has announced it is offering half price fishing this winter. Anglers targeting the fishery’s Orchid and Club lakes will pay just £12. 50 (Orchid) or £11 (Club) when they purchase a 24hour ticket.
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Bargain Carp Fishing
Total Carp Staff  |  Nov 30, 2011  |  First Published: Nov 29, 2011  |  0 comments
Popular fishery offering half-price carping until spring next year. One of the north best know fishing complexes has announced a huge reduction in its rates for carp anglers. Pendle View Fishery near Clitheroe in Lancashire is cutting its prices for specimen tickets by half. The whopping discount means that a day’s fishing on the venue’s Main Lake, home to fish to over 40lb, will cost just £12 for 24hours or £6 for 12 hours.
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Welton Joins Richworth
Total Carp Staff  |  Nov 29, 2011  |  0 comments
Top carper joins famous bait firm's team of consultants. Carp angler Daren Welton has joined bait firm Richworth’s team of consultants, Total Carp can reveal. As an expert at short session carping, Daren brings years of experience to the team, which includes such names as Ian Poole, Martin Bowler and Steve Reynard. A delighted Daren said of the move: “Having spent years on so called circuit waters fishing alongside some very good and talented anglers and always being prepared to learn along the way I have realised that quality bait can be a real edge in getting consistent results.
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New Pb For Russell
Total Carp Staff  |  Nov 29, 2011  |  0 comments
Total Carp regular changes tactics to bring him a new personal best from Linear. Avid Carp consultant and Total Carp regular Ian Russell has big reason to celebrate, after landing a new PB during a recent session on Oxfordshire’s Linear complex. Fishing the venue’s Manor Farm Lake, carp coach Ian banked one of the water’s top fish known as Spike at 44lb 2oz – breaking his previous best by 8oz. The capture, which Ian was ‘overjoyed’ at, came following a change of tactics, which the 50-year-old saw as key to the result.
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We Want You!
Total Carp Staff  |  Nov 26, 2011  |  First Published: Nov 25, 2011  |  0 comments
Learn how you can become a part of the Total Carp magazine team. Want to become part of the Total Carp team? Well here’s your chance. We’re looking for TC readers to get more involved in the magazine throughout 2012 with your own reviews of the tackle you use out there on the bank. Rods reels, bed chairs, spods, whatever it is, we want to hear what you think about it and publish fit in our Used & Abused section.
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World Record Carp Caught
Total Carp Staff  |  Nov 24, 2011  |  0 comments
Les Graviers' most famous resident, The Scar Fish, comes to the bank. The world’s biggest carp, the Scar Fish from France’s Les Graviers, has been banked, but at a weight 7lb lighter than its record-breaking biggest. Caught by Northampton angler Mark Ryder, the mighty fish still sent the scales hurtling round to 92lb, a weight that keeps it in the top three heaviest known carp on the planet. Mark, who is a bailiff at Daventry’s Drayton reservoir, still very nearly made the history books though, after hooking into another fish of an estimated 80lb – a specimen if landed that would have seen him take the world's heaviest ever brace of carp.
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Terminal Tackle
Gardner Covert Mugga Hooks
Total Carp Staff  |  Nov 23, 2011  |  First Published: Nov 22, 2011  |  0 comments
The TC boys get to grips with tackle and bait, testing them to the limit out on the bank. Here’s what they think…Gardner Covert Mugga HooksRRP: from £3. 75Website: www. gardnertackle.
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