Tom Maker is a junior angler who spends much of his time fishing in the Kent Area. With a number of twenties and thirties and forties under his belt Tom is an experienced angler who loves to go fishing. He has fished many BCAC events with his dad Andy as well as fishing for England in junior events. He also is a consultant for Fox International.

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Here is a little report of a brace of 40's I caught recently, I ended up landing 4 doubles, 27lb 2oz common, 27lb 12oz common, 28lb 2oz common, 31lb 4oz mirror, 37lb 5oz mirror, 37lb 6oz mirror, 40lb 3oz mirror and a 41lb 8oz mirror,

I fished in one swim from Monday night to Wednesday morning where I landed 2 small commons a 31lb 4oz mirror and the 40lb 3oz mirror, all these fish were caught at 145 yards range on Mainline Cell Pop Ups fished on a 8 inch length of sandy yellow cortex knotless knotted to a Size 8 Super Sharp SSC fished with a silicone kicker 1inch off the bottom, this was attached to a safety lead clip system with 3 ft of weighted rig tubing, and a 3.75oz horizon lead, I introduced 100 boilies at the start of the session, and also a bucket of hemp, and topped up after each fish with a further 50 baits and 5 spods, also before it got dark I put out some Spod Mix which consisted of hemp, crushed hemp and Hinders Mini Combo pellets.

Tom with 40lb 3oz Mirror Carp

I moved into another swim on the wednesday as I had finished my 48hrs in that swim and within 4 hours had a 37lb 6oz mirror in the net, I was using the same rigs and tactics but this time fishing up a tight channel at 145-150 yards range, during the night I landed a 28lb 2oz common, my biggest common from the lake and also one of the biggest in there. I awoke early next morning and re cast the rods, I got 2 baits spot on was feeling confident of a bite, around midday I had slow take on the left hand rod, after a long hard fight I finally had a massive mirror in the net, the fish weighted 41lb 8oz and was my 6th uk 40lb+ carp and the second in 24hrs. I photographed the fish before finally returning her to her watery home, I managed another common of 27lb 2oz later that day, during the night I lost a fish, and in the morning I landed a common weighing 27lb 6oz, I moved back into the swim I started on about 10am friday and just had a chilled out weekend, I landed a further 3 carp to 37lb 5oz which was a great result, and my dad who was in the swim I had just moved out of caught a stunning 34lb 14oz mirror as well as a new English PB weighing 39lb 15oz, so all in all a great week.

      Tom with 41lb 8oz Mirror                Andy with 39lb 15oz Mirror and New UK PB