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New Dynamite Baits Launch
Total Carp Staff  |  Sep 28, 2011  |  First Published: Sep 27, 2011  |  0 comments
Range of baits set to help you put more fish on the bank, coming soon. Dynamite Baits has announced an exciting new range of boilies ready to hit tackle shops in 2012. The range includes exciting new boilie flavors, fluro pop-ups and an interesting balanced bottom-bait developed by carping legend Terry Hearn called 50/50. Highlights include:White chocolate and coconut cream.
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Linear Anglers 'ejected'
Total Carp Staff  |  Sep 27, 2011  |  0 comments
Carpers putting fish safety in danger are 'chucked off' day ticket venue. A number of anglers have been thrown out of one of the country’s top day ticket fisheries after being caught putting the safety of fish in danger. Bailiff’s at the popular Linear Fisheries, Oxfordshire took the step after finding anglers leaving their rods unattended while they wandered around the complex. In one instance an angler even got in his car and drove off to see if any pegs were free on other waters around the large fishery with his rods still baited and cast out.
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World Carp Classic 2011
Total Carp Staff  |  Sep 22, 2011  |  0 comments
English team comes home with silver from hard-fished international competition. England has taken a silver medal during a World Carp Classic competition filled with records, tension and controversy. Dan Moorcroft and Colin Gray, sponsored by CC Moore, took second spot in the event which saw them battling 258 other anglers from 27 countries over seven days of fishing at Lac de Madine in France. Fishing in pairs the first hurdle for the anglers to get over was the draw bag, which saw none of the English competitors pegged in the any of the in-form swims.
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Indian Takes Away Brfc
Total Carp Staff  |  Sep 19, 2011  |  0 comments
Spicy boilie wins British Carp Angling Championship as competition comes down to just one last gasp fish. This is the boilie that won the BCAC 2011, after the bait accounted for a total of 12 fish for the winning team during 48hours of intense fishing. The victorious pair, Robert Julyan and Ashley Taylor from Northampton used the ‘Super Indian’ by Premier Baits throughout the final of the prestigious event, landing a total of 166lb 14oz of carp, included fish up to 27lb 14oz. However, the start of the event was very different to the triumphant conclusion for the duo, who thought disaster had struck after drawing the exact peg that they had already earmarked as the one the ‘definitely didn’t want’.
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Bcac 2011
Total Carp Staff  |  Sep 19, 2011  |  0 comments
Julyan and Talyor take victory in the British Carp Angling Championship 2011. The final of the British Carp Angling Championship has been won following a tense 48-hour battle that saw just 11lb separate first and second pace. Held at Broadlands Lakes near Southampton, in the end the coveted title was awarded to Robert Julyan and Ashley Taylor after the pair banked a total of 12 fish for a weight of 166lb 14oz. This year’s championship was the thirteenth BCAC competition.
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48hours For Forty
Total Carp Staff  |  Sep 16, 2011  |  0 comments
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.
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2nd Biggest Common Ever
Total Carp Staff  |  Sep 15, 2011  |  0 comments
World Record-shaking common carp weighs in at a staggering 88lb - the second biggest ever landed! The second biggest common carp ever caught has been landed at a weight of 88lb. Taking an amazing 2hours to bring to the net, the mighty fish was caught by Korda’s Damian Clarke while fishing La Saussaie in the Champagne region of France. The huge specimen is just 7oz shy of the current world record common carp caught by German Angler, Markus Pelzer from a private lake last year. During his incredible, week-long trip to the 10.
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Carp Event Huge Success
Total Carp Staff  |  Sep 15, 2011  |  First Published: Sep 14, 2011  |  0 comments
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.
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Baden Hall Haul
Total Carp Staff  |  Sep 14, 2011  |  0 comments
Day ticket venue delivers five 20s in 48 hours to local angler. 

Carp angler Juan Coetzee has been taking day-ticket venue Baden Hall fishery apart, with his latest session at the venue delivering a result of five 20lb plus fish in 48 hours. The 25-year-old Scaffolder took his time finding his fishing spots when he first arrived at the popular venue, choosing to target the bay area on New Quarry Pool from peg 20. Managing to locate a clear area at around 60yards range in between the thick beds of weed, the Stafford angler’s first move was to spod out a mix of bloodworm pellet, white crumb maize and a number of 18 Yum Yum Baits shellshock boilies creating a 10foot square bed of feed.
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Derek Ritchie Interview
Total Carp Staff  |  Sep 13, 2011  |  0 comments
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….
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