Large specimen carp and indeed other species, are always the likely target of thieves, from leisure fisheries, fish farms and even from garden ponds.

Leisure fishery owners! Do you remember the floods of 2007?
An Anglers Mail article reported that the Environment Agency had 'rescued' 11,000 fish over a two or three month period! No-one knew who the fish belonged to - and how do you identify your fish and prove ownership 'beyond all reasonable doubt'? Now you can - with a Chips4Fish microchip implant!

A Chips4Fish microchip could have identified those fish and led to them being returned to their home lake and rightful owners (after a period of quarantine of course). How? Through the unique ID number written to the microchip during manufacture. When you implant a Chips4Fish microchip and register it on the national database, you give that fish an indisputable home address - your lake!

Stock Management .....
Microchipping your fish is not just about the danger of theft or flood loss. Microchipping is a valuable management tool

http://www.chips4fish.com/

AS seen in this week’s Mail, there are loads of angling DVDs out this Christmas and one of the best has to be Martin Bowler’s Seeking Shadows.

Filmed over two years, it shows some fantastic action around a Dorset lake and the Welsh coast, with Martin catching everything from huge blue and porbeagle sharks to monster carp and pike. Below are some exclusive images from the filming of the first part of Seeking Shadows, with part two due in 2013.

Big carp from Milton Abbas in Dorset – filmed above and below the water – feature heavily in Seeking Shadows.

A blue shark attacks the boat during filming.

The clear water of Martin’s target lake led to some great underwater footage of carp in their natural environment.

Crucians also have a starring role in the film.

One of most exciting moments – when a big porbeagle sharks hits Martin’s bait on film.

Two years of hard work paid off when Martin hit his targets, like this huge old carp

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Time to put the breaks on bait

Anglers Mail article by : dave coster

                                               

Back in october it was reported in anglers mail that ryan need won the uk carp cup using no less than 336 pints of maggots! with a bait bill of an acces of £500 ryan took a gamble ,but it paid of rewarding him with £5,000 in prize money it has taken me 7 weeaks to digest the staggering omount of bait used on this occasion and to tyr and to asses if this tactic might have caused any damage ,not so much to the fish but concerning how other anglers presieve competitive fishing . I can't speak for carp anglers ,but from a match fishing point of view i know using accsesive amounts of bait has offten caused problems .Back in the day when we had big matches on the river lea and grand union canal,it was bloodworm and jokers that stirred up allot of controvercy. These baites where not cheap ,and some guys where turning up at compititions absolutely laden with the stuff.  the average angler was not happy because in most cases the culprits were also sponsored , getting both discount on bait and tackle.This caused arguments that people were buying their fish, which inturn led to bait limits and bans or,even worse,compititions where some anglers were not welcom.  Since pellets have become such a popular bait,bans have become less of an issue , although bait limits are often imposed on commersial fisherie matches.this has less to do with making compititons fairer and allot more to do with fish wealfare preventing to much bait being fed. The latter can be a big problem,not so much in big venues, but certainly on smaller ones.  Anglers read about top carp anglers feeding about 40 and 50 kilos of pellets,bolies and particals in short sesions abroad,and get tempted into trying the same in this country , sometimes on waters that are to small to take such a bombaredment. i'm agints outright bait bans because i believe they make competitive fishing less vaires and less intresting. but i'm now leaning in favior of bat limmits;otherwise i fear competitive fishing could be in danger of becoming too expensive,especially during thes financially difficult times.  Well attendid competitions are good for the sport,while poorly attended events tend to fizzle out,leaving us with ten-peg sweepstakes to look forward to.

                                             Chestnut pool 4lb

                                                 5lb8oz ghostie

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                                              11 lb10oz ghost koi

                                                      14lb pike bang on

                                                          29lb9oz airman cat

                                                   10lb110z leather carp

                                                       16lb80z aiman pit common

                                                   29lb9oz aiman cat

                                               Chapel farm fisheries 10lb 9oz

                                                7lb airman pike

                                             20lb chesnut

                                          20lb 10oz chesnut

                                           10lb airman fully scaled

                                           10lb linear at airman pit

                                             Henlow bridge lakes 15lb 4oz

                                            22lb 8oz airman pit

                                           9lb broom lake common

                                                 5lb chesnut pool

                                               Henlow bridge lakes 8lb

                                            small henlow bridge common

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                                                  Henlow bridge  7lb

                                                lovely day at broom lake but did not produce

                                          another 15lb henlow bridge lakes

                                           chestnut pool me 10lb 1oz and mates 9lb 8

                                           Chestnut pool 4lb

                                            the 29.9 airman cat

                                             21lb 14oz pug mouth broom lake

                                             15lb henlow bridge

                                               Chestnut pool  4lb

                                               Airman pit 10lb 5oz

                                            Chestnut pool fattie

                                                Chestnut pool ghostie

Chestnut pool simmo 9lb