For The Record led us into the company of Mark Willcocks, an Essex angler who has been fishing for big carp for an awfully long time! Now, his longevity alone wouldn’t be so impressive, unless you knew just how many big carp this man has caught, while quietly going about his business since the 1980s! We dived into his albums, and his past, present and future fishing to get what we think is a privileged look at the rather special way Mark goes about his big-carp fishing.
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