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Proof that zig rigs catch carp in winter as well as summer

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Angling Times, 11 March 2010 16:00

Anyone who thought zig rigs were just a summer approach should try telling that to Stuart Young, who banked 10 fish to 33lb 2oz from a local syndicate using the tactic. Within three hours of his arrival the 32-year-old had netted five carp, including two thirties, a mid-twenty and two upper-doubles. The bites then slowed up, but as soon as ...

 

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Proof that zig rigs catch carp in winter as well as summer

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Angling Times,
11 March 2010 16:00

Anyone who thought zig rigs were just a summer approach should try telling that to Stuart Young, who banked 10 fish to 33lb 2oz from a local syndicate using the tactic. Within three hours of his arrival the 32-year-old had netted five carp, including two thirties, a mid-twenty and two upper-doubles. The bites then slowed up, but as soon as ...

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£250,000 worth of carp are seized and destroyed at Dover

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Angling Times, 10 March 2010 12:00

The biggest-ever illegal shipment of smuggled carp worth a staggering £250,000 has been seized at Dover by UK authorities. In the early hours of Friday, February 26, a Volvo FH12 lorry was searched by Border Agency officers and 120 carp weighing between 25lb and 50lb were discovered in four oxygen-fed containers. All the French carp were confiscate and destroyed by ...

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Biggest carp this year banked at Acton Burnell

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Angling Times, 03 March 2010 06:00

The biggest carp of the year so far has been caught by Chris Lowe, in the form of this 47lb 3oz mirror from the Acton Burnell Top Lake, in Shropshire. After seeing a few fish show close together at 50yds’ range, the 39-year-old scattered 2.5kg of SBS Ace Lobworm boilies over the area and then only had to wait two ...

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A switch to a heavy lead catches 35lb 10z mirror carp

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Angling Times, 23 February 2010 14:04

On pressured day-ticket carp waters, doing something slightly different to everyone else when carp angling can make all the difference. That was certainly the case for Mark Lewis, who used a much heavier lead than normal to catch this 35lb 1oz mirror from White Springs Fishery’s Specimen Lake in Swansea. Not only was it the first carp that the 44-year-old bricklayer had ...

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Four carp haul in 48 hours topped by 42lb 15oz common

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Angling Times, 09 February 2010 11:44

Multiple carp catches have been few and far between during the recent Arctic blast, but Jason King certainly made up for lost time when he banked four fish, topped by this 42lb 15oz common, during a recent 48-hour session at Milton Abbas in Dorset. The trip started positively for the 37-year-old with a low-double and a 22lb 2oz mirror on ...

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Angling Times launch the new JRC sponsored Carp Cup competition

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Angling Times, 17 December 2009 16:19

Starting on January 5th Angling Times is launching the JRC sponsored Carp Cup competition - an exciting new specimen carp competition which aims to reward anglers for their special captures. All you have to do is send in a picture of your catch along with a few details about it. It's as simple as that! It’s not a case that the ...

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Two 40-pound carp landed from Cromwell Lakes in Notts

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Angling Times, 15 December 2009 14:19

Zig Curtis had a memorable session at Cromwell Lakes in Nottinghamshire, where he helped himself to a brace of forties weighing 43lb and 41lb as part of a five-fish haul. When he arrived at the 18-acre day-ticket venue, the 50-year-old was met by a strong north-easterly wind, so he chose to set up in a swim that he’d had success ...

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Colne Valley produces another 40lb common carp

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Angling Times, 06 October 2009 21:41

Former Drennan Cup holder Darran Goulder helped himself to a new personal-best carp this week in the form of a cracking 41lb 4oz common from a tough Colne Valley venue. Fishing only his eighth session at the low-stock 10-acre lake, the25-year-old decided to target an area of the venue that was being ignored by most of the other anglers present. ...

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Pavyotts Mill fishery to offer record breaking carp on a day-ticket

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Angling Times, 06 October 2009 12:06

Steve Couch, who runs Somerset venue Pavyotts Mill, has courted controversy by revealing he is on the brink of importing a batch of huge 70lb-plus fish from France, each of which would blitz the present UK record of 67lb 14oz. While the bold move has been welcomed by some anglers keen to catch giant carp with the minimum of fuss, it ...

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13kg of boilies produces 45lb mirror carp from margins

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Angling Times, 15 September 2009 14:53

Iain Macmillan proved you don’t need to fish at distance to catch huge carp when he took this 45lb 10oz mirror carp from The Manor in Essex just a few yards from the marginal bank. The all-important bite came on the second morning of the Stoke-on-Trent-based Trakker sales manager’s 48-hour session, and not only broke his previous personal best of ...

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