LUNCHEON meat is a good carp bait. Another good bait for this time of year on all venues and for all species is chopped worm.

Also fishing worm and using a chopped worm feeder, Bill Burnell had a 5lb chub, plus bits, for a second-placed 7.5.0. Alan Middleton worked very hard for third place.

Under the general heading of "Know Before You Go," having at least some idea of how and where to catch carp will be of service prior to Saturday's Carpocalypse 2014.

FLY fishing for carp is becoming increasingly popular, and productive. Using this method on Bowes Lake, Richard Lansbury hooked and landed – after an 18-minute battle – a superb common carp of ...

Roach fishing excellent to caster or maggots. Perch on worm over chopped worm. Drummersdale Lane: Carp to meat and sweetcorn on ledger tactics. Pole and waggler also catching, but more on ledger.

Want to know what carp eat? Believe it or not, carp have one of the most diverse palates of all freshwater fishing swimming in the United States. They’re herbivores, and while they dine on a ...

Hawkhurst Fish Farm's Specimen Lake is producing some big fish and Paul Tune fished with 22m trout pellets for a mirror carp of 25lb 8oz.

Drayton Leisure was the venue for the latest in Predator's Spring Carp League which was fished by 15 matchmen.

George Chance caught the bighead carp from the Mississippi River. After weighing the 97-pound fish, he chopped it up for fertilizer.