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May 15, 2024 | 
totalcarpmagazine.com | Joe Palethorpe
With more fisheries opting to reduce or remove the need to use a retention sling and more anglers choosing not to carry one, the next best option is to momentarily retain your prize in the landing net.
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May 3, 2024 | 
totalcarpmagazine.com | Joe Palethorpe
This competition will close on Friday, May 31st. Check out what you can win…With its renowned memory foam mattress and wide array of features, the Ultra bedchair provides comfort, functionality and luxury for a rejuvenating night’s sleep on the bank, whatever the conditions. The innovative TLS lumbar design system ensures there is no more sagging and with the firm base sheet provides a luxurious and soft feel of the memory foam mattress.
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May 3, 2024 | 
totalcarpmagazine.com | Joe Palethorpe
Headlining this month’s issue of Total Carp, we have Ian Russell’s Troubleshooter, which sees Ian and his client head to Booneys Lake on the Manor Farm Lakes complex, where it all came down to pinpoint location before a string of stunning carp came their way – spring carping at its finest! The other live session features have action coming thick and fast too, with an action-packed Bluebell trip for Rik Johnson and success up on Norton Disney for Luke Vallory! Here at team TC, we even got in...
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
totalcarpmagazine.com | Joe Palethorpe
Headlining this month’s magazine is Luke Vallory, holding one of the most spectacular looking carp we’ve documented live for the cameras! Blacker than charcoal, smothered in scales and with a huge set of shoulders, this was just one of a number of Sandhurst carp Luke caught for the feature! On the topic of Sandhurst, those following Nigel Sharp’s fishing will know he’s been on the Winter Syndicate and with the arrival of spring he concludes his campaign and his series! As well as the usual...
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
totalcarpmagazine.com | Joe Palethorpe
The largest of Skylark’s lakes, The Mere spans over seven acres and is regarded as the specimen carp water on site. With 15 swims set spaciously around the winding banks, each swim commands its own water and very much its own features. There’s a healthy stock of carp to over 30lb, with multiple fish well into the 20lb bracket. Among the extraordinary stock, there is a selection of both commons and mirrors, with some fine examples of old English scaly and heavily plated mirrors.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
totalcarpmagazine.com | Joe Palethorpe
This competition will close on Friday the 3rd of May. Check out what you can win…The very best of the best – Basia is a name reserved only for Daiwa’s flagship models and these rods are no different!The Basia X45X are the newest rods featuring Daiwa’s Magnum Taper Profile, but the first thing to notice in comparison with the other rods is that it’s been achieved with a much thinner blank. The ground and polished blank has a natural shimmer, which looks particularly stunning.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
totalcarpmagazine.com | Joe Palethorpe
This competition will close on Friday the 3rd of May. Check out what you can win... After a development process of over five years, the dB7-R bite alarms and receiver from Trakker have been tested to the absolute limits. These are alarms for anglers who want the very best, as they perform reliably in all conditions, avoid the nuisance of false indication and ultimately help turn more bites into landed carp.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
totalcarpmagazine.com | Joe Palethorpe
Dave Lane certainly needs no introduction in the world of carp fishing, as his bulging photo album of big carp is nothing short of impressive. Over the years Laney has chased some of the most sought after and largest fish in the country and has been very successful in his pursuit, so it was no surprise that the likes of Cadence approached the man himself to help design the ultimate carp rod.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
totalcarpmagazine.com | Joe Palethorpe
COM-PACT by name and compact by nature, the all new alarms from Prologic are a technological marvel in a compact body! Not only is the styling of the heads and receiver extremely modernised but you can literally fit three of these alarms in one hand with room to spare. Yet it is what is found inside each unit that is staggering, and one of the most prominent features are the high quality Li-On batteries that each alarm is equipped with.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
totalcarpmagazine.com | Joe Palethorpe
One of the most annoying experiences in fishing has to be sitting in a peg full of carp with no bites forthcoming, only to reel in and find your rig is tangled. There are many solutions to this soul destroying problem when angling on the deck, but for many years, zig rig users have suffered the dreaded tangle for far too long. Thankfully, the new year brings with it new products with new solutions and RidgeMonkey’s latest contribution is found in the form of the all new Zyggo.
