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| We pride ourselves on producing the best fishing tackle in the world, but to do so we need a team of consultants who test our tackle to the limit. Here you’ll find a list of those anglers, with a little information about each one. |
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Andy Little is a very well respected professional angler. Andy Little's name is synonymous with specimen fishing. Andy's weekly column for Anglers Mail is probably the longest running series in any UK publication. Having started over 20 years ago, since then Andy has never missed a week.
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Roberto is from Rome, Italy and an angling author since 1988. The 47 year-old founded leading Italian magazine ‘Pescare Carpfishing’ and is also the founder of Carp Fishing Italia and IGFA Rep. With over 2000 articles published in seven countries, six books and 45 videos he’s probably the most important Italian angling author ever.
Professionally Roberto is a former 104 Starfighter Sqdn, Commander on ITAF and actually, First Officer on Alitalia. He joined Fox in 1998.
Roberto also has his own web site www.robertoripamonti.it
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One of the most recognised faces in carp fishing today, since leaving the army Chilly has crammed alot into his angling life. The founder of Echo and a regular writer in several mainstream carp magazines, Chilly is an acknowledged expert in bait application and his impressive list of big carp includes captures from waters such as the Carp Park Lake, Horton and Wraysbury.
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Philippe is a leading light in the carpworld. He is widely respected throughout Europe for his dedication and his love of carp fishing and is rightly viewed as a leader by the carp angling fraternity. His deep understanding of carp behaviour, means that he can use and develop Fox products to their ultimate effect.
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Another new addition for 2007, Colin Davidson is a highly respected, freelance angling journalist. With a weekly column in Anglers Mail, Colin is out there catching them week in week out, and has a whole host of big fish to his name.
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Chris Holley is a well know and respected Dorset based angler. Chris grew up in South London where he spent his early teens fishing for carp on the pits and lakes of Kent but his real love is for running water. With over 30 years experience on rivers, he specialises in the pursuit of barbel and chub with over 200 double figure barbel to his credit and chub to 7lb 10oz.
Chris has been classified by the media as a traditionalist spending the majority of his time on the bank preferring to adopt a roving approach with conventional baits to search out his prey.
He has been involved in many angling clubs and organisations over the years, being a founder member of both The Barbel society and Barbel Study Group, carrying out several studies on the species and their habitat. However, nowadays Chris spends much of his time teaching with tuition days and presentations to fellow anglers. Chris is also an NFA qualified coach.
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Stefan is a French professional fishing guide who also qualified as a coach in England, and subsequently joined the Professional Anglers Association. He is renowned for his attention to detail and an instinctive watercraft, and shares his knowledge without restraint!
Based in the South East of France where he guides British anglers for carp, barbel and general coarse fishing on natural venues, Stefan is also chairman of the Alpine Carp Study Group. His best fish so far for 2008 is a 50lb mirror from St Cassien.
Stefan provides his clients with the latest Fox gear, acting as a real life tackle test platform. Stefan’s pledge is to get people to catch wild fish from a variety of venues in the Provence-Alpes region, which is a guarantee that the tackle is put through its paces!
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Dr Ian Welch is an aquatic scientist by training and has put his expertise into practise by becoming one of the foremost all round big fish anglers in the UK with a PB list which includes: UK catfish to 55lb 10oz, pike to 35lb 12oz, carp to 34lb 6oz, barbel to 16lb 7oz, bream to 16lb 3oz, zander to 13lb, tench to 10lb 1oz, chub to 7lb 5oz, perch to 4lb 10oz, crucian carp to 4lb 8oz, roach to 3lb 6oz, silver bream to 2lb 1oz and dace to 1lb 4oz.
Ian is a former RMC Angling boss, a previous winner of the prestigious Fox Specimen Cup, a director of the Carp Society and chairman of the Professional Coarse Fisheries Association.
He has written in most national angling publications and currently has the weekly lead feature in Angler’s Mail magazine. Ian has also made numerous TV and radio appearances.
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Since the age of 7 Tom has loved fishing. He has fished the famous Walthamstow complex where he caught his first English 30lb carp, as well as
Mid Kent Fisheries, the famous Linear Complex as well as many other day ticket lakes with great success. At present he has banked over 50 English 30lb fish and four ‘40s’ with a personal best being a 44lb 8oz mirror. His best session was when he landed 10 fish in 48hrs with six being over 30lb up to 39lb 6oz.
Tom’s favourite methods of fishing are being mobile, allowing him to move onto the fish if they move, hence increasing his chances of catching. He is also a keen carp match angler - he was the youngest ever competitor to qualify for the BCAC Finals aged just 14. Tom has also had two podium finishes in the British Young Carp Anglers Championships.
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Roelof is a well known and very experienced Dutch carp angler. He is specialised in catching carp on very difficult and low stocked canals and rivers. Although he caught a lot of big carp to over 56lb, getting a take is always his main priority. According to Roelof, the most beautiful thing in carp fishing is a screaming Fox Micron!
For more than 15 years he has been writing for Dutch and Belgian carp magazines. Roelof also contributed to five carp books. He has been associated with Fox International since 2001, the last couple of years as a consultant.
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Heavy baiting with the use of a spod is what Steve describes as his favourite style of fishing, a tactic he started to use in the late 1980s on Layer Pits in Essex, England. More recently he has been perfecting accurate fishing with PVA over a tightly spodded area fished at distance.
Steve’s biggest carp stands at 47lb 2oz, with his all-time best catch being one double, five ‘20s’, six ‘30s’ and one ‘40’ in a 30 hour period. Steve has fished for the NFA Carp Team and won a silver team medal in England’s first FIPS World Championship.
Together with his angling partner and fellow Fox consultant Chris Rose, Steve regularly appears in leading UK carp magazine Total Carp, as well as articles being included in magazines throughout Europe.
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A new addition to the team, Chris has 16 years carp fishing experience. With UK fish to over 41lb, Chris’s credentials are second to none. A renowned Carp angler, Chris is excellent at ‘match carp fishing’ and has qualified for five out of eight finals of the British Carp Championships.
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Mark is an IT Consultant and has been fishing for carp since 1990. For several years he has been a regular contributor to Dutch angling magazines and he is a former board member of the Dutch Carp Study Group.
Because of his busy job, family life and other hobbies and commitments he is forced to prepare and execute his fishing as effective as possible. Although Mark has already caught quite some big Dutch carp, that alone is not what he’s after. Variation in his fishing by constantly searching for new challenges and improvements in every aspect of carp fishing is what makes him more fanatical with each passing year.
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New recruit to the Fox Team, 33 year-old ‘Andy’ lives in Ruedesheim at the Rhine in Germany. He started fishing in 1987 on the River Rhine, but his carp fishing really started around 1990 with his professional carp angling career started in 1993. Over all these years he has fished all around Europe. He is experienced on many of the legendary waters in France. He has also fished a lot of very small and difficult lakes in Germany, but his main fishing remains on the Rhine.
He has banked many carp weighing more than 20kg, with his personal best being a huge 33.4 kg fish! He also targets zander and catfish, admitting that fishing with shads and lures is his second love after carp fishing.
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Xavier, more commonly known by his British friends as ‘Zav’, lives in the countryside of Paris, giving him the opportunity to fish for big carp from the rivers in this region: the River Marne, OISE, and the famous one: the Seine, as well as the many gravel pits in this area.
He has travelled around the world in search of big carp from Italy, Spain, Romania, Ukraine, Canada, Belgium, Germany, South Africa... the list goes on! However, the River Seine still gives him a special feeling!
Because of Zav’s varied carp fishing, he insists on using the best products. That's why he uses Fox International carp tackle – it means he can concentrate 100% on his fishing!
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After taking up carp angling when he was young, Justin has spent many years fishing some of the well known UK carp waters. But since 2005 he has focused a lot of time fishing big French waters including Cassein and Rainbow Lakes. He now spends around 10-14 weeks a year in France, primarily on Rainbow and this culminated in the capture of one of the big mirrors in March this year – a monster at 79lb, caught using Fox Warrior rods! Fishing Rainbow is very demanding and it is vitally important to have kit, particularly rods and terminal tackle that is up to the job. Justin believes the Fox range excels in this department. His dream now would be to catch a 60lb+ common. Watch this space!
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Moggy has been carp fishing since the early 80s and classes his favourite style of fishing as trying to find fish and outwit them in the margins. A lot of his fishing is reserved for the margins, which makes presentation, baiting up and rig placement a lot easier. Moggy’s biggest mirror is the ‘Royal Forty’ at 42lb 4oz and his personal best fish is the one and only ‘Charlie’s Mate’ at 45lb 12oz. We understand that Moggy was the first person to catch three different 40lb+ common carp from one lake, down at Cemex Angling’s Frimley Pit 3; Gregory Peck 40lb 4oz, Charlie’s Mate 45lb 12oz and Charlie at 41lb.
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Carl is just 18 years-old but already has a personal best carp of 43lb 8oz to his name!
Carl’s past achievements include winning the British Young Carp Angler of the Year title at just 14 years of age and coming fourth in the World Carp Championships when partnered with Dave Waite.
Carl will be focusing much of 2008 on the big common carp found in the A1 Pits.
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Adam’s grandfather was a river keeper on the famous Hampshire Test and as a boy he caught the fishing bug! Adam has been carp fishing since the age of 12, having caught hundreds of 20s and numerous 30s from all over the south coast on England. His personal best stands at 37lb 2oz. He works as a full time Youth and Community Worker and enjoys making a difference with the people he meets. He has recently written articles for some of the well-known angling magazines in England, including Crafty Carper, Carpworld and Total Carp.
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Jocelyn is French and lives in Paris where he works as a sales representative for Microsoft. He has fished for carp since he was 13 years-old and specialises in targeting big rivers and lakes in France and abroad.
International carp fishing author and sponsored by Fox and Dynamite Baits, Jocelyn has caught numerous specimens in lakes and rivers in France; Orient, Der, Cabanac, Biscarosse, Saint Cassien, Bin El Ouidane... his record stands at 29 kilos, a mirror carp caught on the Orient Lake.
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Brought up in the Fens, Matt has been fishing his local waters for more than 15 years, and with that has gained a wealth of experience in fishing the numerous waters around him. Using technology the likes of Google Earth, Matt has discovered many waters that have previously gone unnoticed; many of which have produced good fish for him.
All methods and tactics play a part in Matt’s armoury, and he’s always looking to add another string to his bow. There isn’t any freshwater species he will not target, but he favours Rudd. Matt currently boasts well over fifty Fenland 2lb plus specimens to his name, with a personal best of 3lb 7oz. Predators are another favourite of his, with past sessions seeing him land Pike to 25lb plus, Zander into double figures, and Perch to just shy of 4lb.
Matt has always enjoyed helping others with their own fishing, and is very committed to attracting youngsters to the sport. He has been a regular contributor to Coarse Fisherman magazine for more than 3 years and has his own website that can be found at www.rodcast.co.uk.
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Christophe is based in the centre of France, approximately 100 miles south of Paris. The 40 year angler has been associated with Fox since 2003. With a plethora of big fish to his name, including mirrors to 47lb 4oz and leathers to 39lb 7oz, he certainly knows how to catch them.
One of Christophe's passions is competing in major carp matches. With his long-standing partner and great friend Sebastien Depont, who is a Fox angler since 2007, their biggest win to date came in June 2000 when they finished second to the English pairing of Tim Paisley and Steve Briggs at the World Carp Cup at Fishabil.
Christophe writes for French magazine ‘Carpe Record’ and has also presented two DVDs. He lists his favourite methods as a single pop-up boilie (a Mainline boilie, that's for sure!) and balanced presentations with PVA sticks, stringers or bags.
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Although he has been fishing since the age of 5, it wasn't until he was 13 that Andy started to fish solely for carp. His carp fishing started on local club lakes and farm reservoirs, before in the 1984/85 season he joined Darenth and spent many happy years fishing this venue until its demise.
After that Andy started fishing nearer to home on the gravel pits of the Medway Valley and then to Sutton at Hone before spending three years on the Walthamstow complex in London. Since then he has spent three years on Mid Kent fisheries, concentrating mainly on Chilham but also having a dabble on their other waters. During this time Andy ventured into match fishing with some success gaining a runners-up place in 2003 before eventually winning the BCAC in 2004 and qualifying in 1st place with his son Tom to reach the final in 2006.
His fishing at the moment is concentrated on two southern pits in search of his first English ‘40’. Andy also managed to break the British chub record with a specimen of 9lb 5oz.
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It was at the age of seven that Mike ‘Spug’ Redfern started fishing, happy to catch anything he could. But by 11 years of age he was successfully specimen hunting for tench until work life took over. A return to fishing in 1992 came with the decision to swap over to solely pursue carp from 1995 onwards. Dragged up (as he puts it) by the ‘old school anglers’ he very quickly decided to target carp that were said to be trickier to catch. After a couple of years on day ticket waters he moved on to the Catch 22 Syndicate Lake (medium tricky) in 1997 and quickly broke the records there for the amount of fish caught in a weekend and then in a season. The following year he joined the famous Kingfisher Syndicate in Norfolk (medium/hard) and landed an incredible 11 fish in only 10 nights fishing - five of which were caught in just eight hours. After this short season he felt he was ready to take on the challenges of the ultra difficult Mid Kent Fisheries in Conningbrook, home of the UK record carp. After just 72 nights over a three year period he landed four fish in total, including the lake’s much sought after ‘Two Tone’ at 56lb 8oz, at the time the second biggest carp ever landed in England. This capture also made him only the fourth British angler to catch a 50lb+ carp home and abroad.
Mike is known for being an ‘off the cuff’ angler, a big personality and full of character.
He regularly answers questions in the ‘Ask the experts’ article in Carpworld and ‘The question is’ for Crafty Carper as well as the odd article in the other magazines along the way.
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I’m 26 years-old and I started carp fishing in 1993. During these fifteen years of passion, I enjoy taking part in many French and international major carp matches partnered with my friend Christophe Philbert, with several good results including the second place of the World Carp Cup Fishabil 2000. I like fishing high pressured small lakes as well as big lakes as Orient, Der Chantecoq or Saint Cassien. Fishing different types of waters enables to increase his capacity for adaptation, therefore to learn always more! I’ve caught many 44lb+ carp and my personal best is 64lb. Fox products fulfil all my expectations in all conditions: rivers, big lakes or on high pressured and very difficult small lakes. I’m sponsored by Dynamite Baits as well.
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A recent addition to the Fox team, Cornish born and bred John Kneebone has spent the last nine years dedicated to perfecting his carp techniques.
He holds an impressive personal best of a 37lb 10oz mirror and a 39lb lb 8oz common. But he is now looking further afield to new waters, in a bid to hopefully breaking these PBs with some potential 40lb+ carp.
John is also a new addition to the successful Mainline Bait squad and has written articles for the Mainline website and Carp World magazine.
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Eugenio was born in Vergato (Bologna), Italy in 1972. He now lives in the small Italian town of Viareggio, which is located between the Italian coast and Puccini lake. This location allowed him to start fishing from the age six. Over the years Eugenio has tried several kinds of fishing, but three years ago he fell in love with carp fishing. His other passions are beach volleyball, snowboarding and his two daughters.
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