Total Carp Staff

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.

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.

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.

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.