This trip covers a family holiday to the South West France, with a 60lb target fish in mind. Across a three-week period I explore several lakes, ranging from 30 to 2000 acres. As you can imagine, bouncing a family holiday with the fishing, this trip has tales of both success and failure.

With temperatures set to plummet, and what was left of the autumn leaves doing the same, things were looking tough for this Bushwhacker shoot. However, in true Oli Davies fashion, he managed not only to get bites, but to get bites from two different waters, miles apart in just a couple of Novembe...

The Carplifer duo take on giant lakes, extreme weather and enormous carp as the XL Road Trip reaches its thrilling climax, deep in France. Samir and Claire can’t resist taking on the massive Salagou once more and with huge winds forecast, things quickly get messy! Battered, but not broken, the pa...

After his previous success in Hertfordshire, confidence was sky high as he approached his first venue, a day-ticket lake in Suffolk. Before we knew it, the job was done and we were heading to Norfolk in search of the latest piece of the jigsaw. A flat tyre almost stopped play but luckily, Dave sa...

Steve Renyard runs us through his clever Hermit Rig setup. Just last winter he used it to bank 42 thirties and seven (SEVEN!) forties from seven different day-ticket waters. I mean, who doesn’t want a bit of that?

Elliott continues his Cypographer diary, charting the fishing, and filming exploits of him and his friends. We met him live on the bank to film part of the diary, and he only went and produced a run of mega carp for the cameras. So, if you ever did wonder what it’s like to fish and film at the he...

Well this was an experience, our first-ever Welsh session! We pointed the cars west, heading for the urban sprawl of Cardiff, to join Elliott’s good friend, Dave Robinson on the notorious Wharf fishery - one of the undisputed jewels in the crown for Welsh carpers. Dave was in the middle of a mamm...

Having never blanked a single trip abroad, Jim was keen to keep it that way. Visiting a river, canal and a lake in just a few days might seem crazy but there’s no such thing as too much hard work when Jim’s in pursuit of carp. Would he be rewarded for his efforts and keep his record intact?

Alan Blair takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of his favourite locations, and bags up in the process. We start our journey at a beautiful stretch of river for some late November bread-bomb business, before moving onto a tiny stream, and eventually a canal! From the word, the action is hectic an...

Nigel Sharp takes us to the heart of his life in big carp fishing with this instalment of his Sharp End series. Documenting his angling via “Nige Cam” ensures we never miss a moment, and never have we been happier about that. This film is stacked with big carp, and whether it’s 50lb commons, lake...

Catch more carp with this autumn special, designed to keep you one step ahead of the game as the water cools and those leaves start to turn!

Jim Shelley takes his wife, Jane, to the atmospheric Lac Soupir, a hidden jewel of a complex, deep in the French outback! With carp to be caught, Jim sets off in typical dynamic fashion, catching big ‘uns close in, as well as out in the pond! The question is, can Jane catch a bigger one… or will ...

We follow Jim through a live session at the Woolpack Fishery in Cambridgeshire. Those of you looking for an insight into Jim’s tactics, as well as details of his extensive history at one of the finest fisheries in Cambs will be well catered for here. Jim and Elliott cover his Woolpack campaign, f...

Part three of Elliott’s Cypographer diary really is a bit of a big-carp fest. We’ve got a veritable parade of carp to just shy of 40lb on film, as our man documents the big-carp scene during the autumn feed-up. Elliott even managed to catch live for the camera again, keeping up his recent excelle...

We’re deep in the heartlands of southern carp fishing, as Henry Lennon attempts to catch carp from Surrey, Essex and Kent in just 48 hours! First up, we visit an incredible quarry lake, with vodka-clear water and some seriously crazy topography. Henry is left speechless after heading out in the b...

During the September of 2014, John embarked on an adventure to Eastern France with his friend Tim. The plan was to fish the famous Lac Madine, before exploring an unknown, weed-choked lake with tricky access.

Ian Russell heads off on a ferry, to a lake-exclusive booking with fish to over 50lb… but it’s not in France! Combley Main Lake on the Isle of Wight is the beautiful setting as Ian takes full advantage of the latest advances in bait boat tech to bag a string of big carp from this intimate water. ...

Never in our wildest dreams did we think that this film would end with the capture of a UK sixty! You just can’t plan for things like that, but that’s what Ricci Connolly delivered for this exclusive campaign film! It covers his fishing on a tricky club water as well as his campaign on one of the...

Diversity is what the Wildman is all about, and this episode covers fishing on Finn’s intimate local river, as well as an Alpine French lake for crusty old monsters, the renowned Sandhurst Lake on a day ticket and the urban Mecca, Walthamstow Reservoirs! It’s fair to say that things don’t go to p...

Jim Shelley is back with his exclusive vlog, bringing us to the heart of his big-carp obsession! This time he’s on the fascinating clear-water canals of France and has some amazing up-close-and-personal encounters with the big carp that these neglected waterways contain!

The course of most big-carp campaigns doesn’t run smooth; there are setbacks, highs and lows. This one though, must have gone how Luke Stevenson dreamed it! Almost like they were following a script, the big carp of Northwyke surrendered one after the other to Luke’s classic autumn baiting approac...

Jim Shelley is a master of many carp-fishing disciplines, including that most old school of them all, float fishing. We spent a couple of days learning exactly how Uncle Jim uses his renowned watercraft to the fullest to catch cautious carp on the float. From the right tackle to use, to setting u...

Samir has travelled far and wide in search of carp, and during those travels he’s dreamed of fishing one lake in particular, Orellana in Spain. With wild banks that span over 37km, catching carp was never going to be an easy task, but the best things in life don’t come easy! Samir thrives at the ...