>>40lb+
This is a new gallery of all my carp that weighed between 40lb and 49lb 15oz!! This is an updated version of the previous gallery and I have now added some previously unseen pictures to keep things fresh! I have caught all of these carp since March 2008 from a variety of waters all over Europe. As you will see, they are in no particular order. Some of these pictures were self taken, but most of them were taken by friends or fellow anglers, and it just remains for me to say thank you; you did a great job with the camera!!
Chardonnay at 47lb 8oz Cassien May 08'
40lb 4oz Cassien March 09'
44lb Cassien March 09'
43lb Cassien March 09'
43lb Cassien April 08'
40lb 2oz Cassien March 08'
46lb 2oz Cassien March 08'
40lb Cassien March 08'
40lb 10oz Cassien March 08'
49lb 12oz Cassien March 08'
40lb Cassien March 08'
44lb Cassien May 08'
45lb 2oz Cassien May 08'
46lb 4oz Cassien May 08'
45lb Cassien May 08'
42lb Cassien May 08'
42lb 6oz Cassien May 08'
48lb 2oz Cassien May 08'
46lb 2oz Cassien May 08'
43lb 8oz Cassien May 08'
40lb 2oz Cassien May 08'
48lb Cassien June 08'
40lb 5oz Cassien June 08'
41lb 3oz Cassien June 08'
46lb Liez Oct 08'
41lb 4oz Moselle Oct 08'
40lb 2oz Moselle Oct 08'
40lb 2oz Enchanted Lake April 09'
44lb Enchanted Lake April 09'
44lb 4oz Moselle Oct 08'
49lb 6oz Cassien Feb 09'
42lb Gigantica July 09'
43lb Gigantica July 09'
44lb Cassien March 09'
43lb 3oz Cassien Feb 09'
43lb Cassien Feb 09'
44lb Cassien March 09'
44lb Cassien March 09'
46lb Big Lake May 09'
42lb Pusiano May 2010
45lb Pusiano May 2010
November 1, 2009 at 10:56 pm |
Jake. really admire those beautiful commons. nothing better for me than catching these beautiful creatures.
November 3, 2009 at 12:07 am |
They are stunners aren’t they Tim….Commons seemed to have liked me so far!! I am hoping for a ‘big’ river one, but am hoping it will be placed in the 50′s gallery!!
November 23, 2009 at 11:23 pm |
Hi jake.Hows the fishing?weather here is terrible but on the upside ive booked my first trip abroad to blues lake in belgium for next may. hoping for a pb.take care tim.
November 24, 2009 at 12:41 pm |
Slow as expected but I am off the mark so that’s one less thing to worry about!! I am going to keep playing the margins with one rod and leave the two in deeper water alone, till fingers crossed a carp makes a mistake!
Good luck next May…I am sure I will hear from you before then, and I will have finished my Italian tour by then, so hopefully I will have kept you entertained along the way!
Jake
December 1, 2009 at 8:16 pm |
Wow! Those are some big carp. I’m stuck here in France at the moment, and they seem to be all that are here (I haven’t caught any THAT big yet). I can’t quite get into carp fishing. I’m more of a catfish man.
Do you eat them, or just catch and release? I think I would like them better if I could find some good recipes.
December 4, 2009 at 10:48 am |
All my carp get weighed, photographed and released….It is the preferred practice in most countries these days which is great news. No Kill!!
Although carp were bred for the table originally, those days are gone and carp fishing andf catch and release is now the biggest area of our sport today. Saying that though, there are now a few carp farms sprouting up that rear small carp especially for the table as there does seem to be a growing demand to eat them in some countries, but as long as these table carp come from these special farms and not someones fishing lake then that is okay. The UK has suffered from many carp being caught and killed in the last few years by ignorant people who don’t realise we catch and release. It has been very damaging for some of these waters as the carp are very expensive and hard to replace.