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Angler's Mail magazine launches the "Search for Peter" this week - the great issue on sale now!

MR CRABTREE TV COMPETITION

The hunt for new stars to appear in an exciting new Crabtree TV series starts this week. Read all about a special competition involving Angler’s Mail and ace columnist John Bailey. For a bit more on this development, click HERE.

BEST EVER WEEK FOR BIG PIKE

Predators have gone mental – reports and pictures, including two EXCLUSIVE 40-pounders. Check ‘em out in our mag!

ILLEGAL FISH TRAPS “CATCH OTTERS”

Angling Trust official reveals a shocking and gruesome find.

BEST BIG CARP GEAR

Find out what’s been selling at top shop Browns.

THE BIG NEWS

• Monster chub from fourth choice venue
• Trent star Jan Porter “could have died”
• New fishing show is a success
• Brilliant new barbel bait impresses

STAR ANGLERS

• Tom Mangnall –winter success at commercials, with this rising match ace.
• Gary Newman –  roving for chub on a small river
• Colin Davidson –a brilliant carping history book.
• Andy Black – favourite lures

INSTRUCTION

• Essential Knowledge – Andy Browne explains shotting in this great new series
• All The Answers – No.1 coarse Q&A, sponsored by Greys Prodigy
• Secret Lives –  winter pike explained

WHERE TO FISH THIS WEEKEND

Compiled by local experts. Including Steve Collett getting to grips with a Birmingham AA venue

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Here are a few highlights of a storming issue, on sale from Tuesday, January 17…

KEY MISTAKES YOU ARE MAKING - Andy Browne starts his new Essential Knowledge series with look at where anglers go wrong.

WIN DAIWA GEAR - Enter this week’s  big competition to win brilliant reels. We have ten pairs to give away.

BAIT THAT KILLS CARP - A commonly-held theory about particle baits is ripped to shreds.

TOTALLY DIFFERENT PIKE FISHING - Steve Rowley explains night piking – it might tempt you to stay on late… or even try and overnighter!

MUST-READ NEWS REPORTS

• Our Specimen Cup winner is revealed – an inspiring story!
• Why high speed rail link will wreck waters
• Two river record barbel!
• Super stripys tricked by smart tactics

STAR ANGLERS

• Gary Newman with Tony King –  venue that’s twice held the perch record
• Jimmy Coffey – popular angling coach
• Lewis Baldwin – roving for chub on smaller rivers… a great winter tactic!
• Colin Davidson – insight into fresh bait and rig ideas from our carp guru
• John Bailey –  sink ‘n’ draw piking

We’re also best for…

WHERE TO FISH - your No.1 weekend guide… compiled by our local experts

PRODUCTS – 2012′s best-selling book so far, New Gear and User Report

INSTRUCTION - the No.1 coarse Q&A with new prizes from Greys and Secret Lives of Coarse Fish

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The first issue of 2012 is in shops now, and priced only £1.80!

Here are a few highlights of the January 3 cover-dated issue…

2012 FISHING WALLCHART! Plan your year and see what’s on with the pull-out angling planner in the middle of this week’s issue.

TACKLE UP FOR PIKE NOW! Andy Black reveals what you need to try his wobbled deadbaits attack. Learn loads!

BEST EVER ACTION REPLAY! Cover star Mark Perkins tackles a small river but big fish using match gear. It’s a cracking session!

NEW BUGS TO BEAT BAITS? Carp guru Kevin Nash is set to release them – will they start a new craze?

THE BIGGEST NEWS

• Three carp on at once – four times!
• The big lonely roach
• Lack of love for  2012 Olympics river
• The record that wasn’t
• ACE Carp Cup round-up

STAR ANGLERS

• John Bailey –  why he’s looking forward to 2012′s fishing challenges.
• Gary Newman –  river perch in a hard to access free fishing stretch.
• Colin Davidson– live carp advice to help you in the depths of winter.
• Mark Barrett – mobile pike advice from the big man.

GREAT INSTRUCTION

• All The Answers – No.1 coarse Q&A with great prizes from Greys.
• Easy Learning –  the final chapter, as Matt Sparkes casts his eye back over some super sessions.

PLUS WHERE TO FISH THIS WEEKEND… start your year in a better spot, with our experts’ help.

DON’T MISS AN ISSUE THIS YEAR!

The new issue (cover-dated October 25) includes…

FREE FISHING VOUCHER

A saving of £3.75 can be made when you take a friend fishing this week. Details inside the new mag!

1-IN-A-BILLION CATCH PHOTO!

You’ve never seen a fluke picture like this and you’ll want to show it to other people.

OTTER RAIDS KEEPNET!

Another stunning exclusive photo, this time a hungry otter taking a reader’s fish.

WHAT WE SAW AT THE TACKLE & GUNS SHOW

Hot releases – exclusives galore, including your first look at revolutionary feeder system, noise-free spod and instant groundbait.

GET UNMISSABLE CARP BITES!

We bring you a four-page instructional special loaded with top tips.

WHERE TO FISH

Your No.1 weekend guide… including free rod licence, plus our regional experts’ reports, Tactical Briefings, Top Rod winners and On Tour.

BIG NEWS STORIES

• Arsonists destroy anglers’ boats at Chew
• Otter cull ruled out
• Year’s biggest carp… it’s over 60 lb and not one you’ll know!
• New UK carp champion
• Two new series for TV star Matt Hayes
• Top piker Mark Barrett’s boat sinks

STAR ANGLERS

• John Bailey on  legendary pike
• Steve Lockett gets out the sliding float
• Gary Newman’smonster hunt
• Colin Davidson – hook points

INSTRUCTION

• All The Answers – the No.1 coarse Q&A
• Secret Lives –  colonising new waters
• Easy Learning –  paste basics

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Other highlights of the mag, on sale now, include…

ANTI POACHING GUIDE

Help reduce fish taking for food and other bankside crimes by using our handy “cut out and keep” guide. And read how the problem is also being tackled by the Angling Trust.

CANAL CARP GO CRAZY!

Colin Davidson enjoys two sessions on the towpaths with pal Steve Fantauzzi.

UNDERSTAND PELLETS AND PASTE

100 Things takes a close look at pellets and Easy Learning begins a two-parter on pastes.

ALL THE BIG NEW NEWS!

• Anti poaching plan revealed
• Illegal aliens get EA red card
• Crucian record smashed?
• Monster carp is still growing
• Pike season of to a great start!

STAR ANGLERS!

• John Bailey –  the art of laying on
• Gary Newman –  monster hunt
• Nige Williams – silt beating Replay

LATEST TOP TACKLE!

• Latest releases from Maver
• Bedchair is a hot buy
• Masterline rods in action

THE BEST INSTRUCTION!

• All The Answers – the No.1 coarse Q&A with super Greys tackle prizes
• Secret Lives –  cross bred carp
• Easy Learning –  paste basics part 1

PLUS! WHERE TO FISH

Your No.1 weekend guide, compiled by our local experts, includes great money saving deals!

If you want a great magazine to read, giving you the latest news, advice and ideas from the coarse and carp scene, be sure to get Angler’s Mail this week – and every week!

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Sponsors Dynamite Baits’ stable mates Advanced Carp Equipment will take over the reigns by backing our annual super-popular big carp competition.

The move came immediately after the presentation of Dynamite’s mega £2,500 cheque and huge trophy to 2010/11 winner Duncan Arrandale.

Duncan gets his name etched in history on the Mail’s famous silver bowl trophy alongside some of the biggest names to have graced the carp fishing world.

Duncan’s fine run of 30s topped by a stunning 46 lb common carp from the Carp Society’s Farriers Lake, Gloucestershire, caught the judges’ eyes especially as he juggles carping with work commitments and six-year-old twins. A worthy winner – and cover star of the Angler’s Mail issue (right).

Angler's Mail now includes the ACE Carp Cup!

What YOU can now win in the ACE CARP CUP

Weekly winners

ALL carp pictured in Angler’s Mail will win captors a money-cannot-buy new ACE Carp Cup badge plus a spool of Camo-Core Hooklink material worth £11.99.

Monthly stars

EVERY month one stand out catch will win £250 worth of ACE product and £100 cheque. Our foreign catch winner gets £50 worth of product.

Annual champ and runners-up

TOP catch or best overall display, circumstances such as Duncan’s will be taken into account, will win £2,500 plus the coveted trophy. Four runners-up will receive £250.

REPORT YOUR CATCHES TO US. Email photos and details including your daytime tel to: anglersmail@ipcmedia.com

Here are a few highlights…

ULTIMATE FEEDER & FLOAT ROD IN ONE - our trade show reports reveal Daiwa’s best rod for 15 years.

MUSIC SUPERSTARS’ FISHING DVD – exclusive report on what will be sport’s biggest seller.

YOUR TOTAL GUIDE TO LURE FISHING - today’s best lures and tactics are explained.

ACE NEW CARP CONTEST – exclusive to Angler’s Mail magazine, with great prizes!

THE BIG NEWS

• “British record” grass carp exclusive
• Shameful poaching fines slammed
• Pike angling boost
• Matchman bags huge river carp

STAR ANGLERS

• John Bailey –  our man discloses the secrets of a hero
• Neil Stephen –  perch record holder, who has just caught a 40 lb common
• Dave Harrell – river legend and guide takes you out for a trotting masterclass
• Gary Newman – cats and carp search
• Colin Davidson –in-depth look at getting the best from PVA bagging

BEST INSTRUCTION

• All The Answers – the No.1 coarse Q&A, with Grey Prodigy prizes
• Secret Lives –  fighting blind
• Easy Learning –  in-line Method

WHERE TO FISH THIS WEEKEND

Your No.1 weekend guide… compiled by our local experts. This week’s On Tour sees Steve Collett at Makins.

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With several giants having died in recent years, it’s a fish to watch!

Here is the full story as told to Angler’s Mail… in the latest captor, Ben Hewer’s own words.

Big carp and all coarse species can be seen in the mag every week.

Ben Hewer admires the mighty 57 lb 14 oz mirror carp.

“MYSELF and friends Paul Field, Ollie Webb and brothers Barry and Tony James exclusively booked the North Lake down at Elphicks for five days.

We chose our swims and I had open water with Fieldy on my right, fishing left of the island and in front. So as not to have too much bait spread out, we fished two rods in the same local area with a heavily baited approach and one roaming rod.

I chose to feed an area at 50 yards with a depth of 5ft with a upcoming slope to 4ft on my left which I thought would be a good patrol route.

I baited up a area of 20 square feet, placing two marked up rods both on the spot, Fieldy aiming a little towards the island but more spread out. The bait consisted of 60 balls of pellet with mixed particle and 2kg of Mainline Cell 15 mm, all catapulted out at 6pm.

The weather was glorious but not so good for fishing. Fish were basking down one end of the lake with a few showing to the far margins where I put my roamer rod fishing pop-ups on a 360 rig.

Ben fished the North Lake at Elphicks, the bottom one in this picture. For the best venues coverage, including Where to Fish This Weekend, read Angler's Mail every week.

Sunday night and nothing to show for any of us. By Monday afternoon I snatched a 12 lb common from the pop up and Barry smashed his PB of 18 lb with a chunky mirror of 34 lb 11 oz.

To be worried I had overfed the swim was the opposite of what I have heard about Elphicks… so blamed the weather for the the lack of action from the baited area as I fed another 60 balls and 2kgs of Cell before dark.

Monday night and at last a fish off the spot in the shape of a 21 lb 4 oz linear. Meanwhile Tony had two 28-pounders, adding PBs twice to his CV, the biggest of the two 28lb 13oz. My night was finished of by a 33 lb 10 oz and went quiet after 4.30 am.

Tuesday and it was sunny, relaxing in the day, to fish between 12 and 4am, confident I had sussed the fish! I upped the bait as I saw a cat tail breach the baited area and was concerned I was getting hoovered up by the early morning. I started to spod particle mix (10kg) with the pellet and the Cell staying the same, and on time around midnight a 29 lb mirror fell to twin Cell. Fieldy does his PB with a 31lb 3 oz common just after.

Then as we both got to sleep an almighty run from my rods left me in a panic as I tried to unzip the blasted bivvy. All the runs up to this point were “riggy” but this was a beauty.

The fish ran 25 to 30 yards towards a snag and I began bullyboy tactics to tease it towards the open water, it was heavy but came in relatively easy towards the bank. It then started to make ten-yard runs and picked up my second slack line so I put a little on the fish to get it up – but it was ‘avin none of it!

Finally Fieldy was ready to net it, and she was in. We both had flashbacks from France where you try and lift the net out of the water and it’s too heavy! Giggles broke out and as she lay on the bank I was in denial it was the big girl.

I am quite understated but knew it was big, and the 40 I was hoping for. As the Reubens went round past 40 then bouncing at 60 we both shouted “it’s her!”

The scales settled at her biggest size of 57 lb 14 oz, a new lake record and of course my English PB – which was held by a respectable 35 lb Yateley mirror.

She swam back strong after a little reviving, as she likes to burn herself out, but behaved on the mat which helped get her back in quickly.

Morning came and we were all buzzing from seeing the biggest day ticket carp in the UK.

To cap it all, Ollie across the lake had done his PB of low 20 lb to a 26 lb common. So that’s five mates all breaking their PBs… and the biggest in the lake!”

ANGLER’S MAIL FACT FILE

57 lb 14 oz carp by Ben Hewer

Occupation: Red Bull Racing formula 1 team composite assembler.

Age and home town: 33 from Milton Keynes, Bucks.

Rod: custom-made Torrix TE by Vic Gibson.

Reel: Daiwa Basia QDX.

Line: 12lb Ultima Carp.

Rig: 3.5 in. hinged, stiff Hybrid hooklink, size 6 Nash Twister barbless, lead clip set up with kwik link.

Hook bait: double 15mm Mainline Cell.

Feed: 20kg of mixed pellets, 10kg of Mainline Cell, 10kg chilli hemp, 15kg of maize,10kg of barley and oat mix over five days. Thanks to Giles at NSA Baits, for delivering bait to the lake!

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Angler’s Mail magazine editor Tim Knight said: ‘We’re delighted to reach another milestone in our Facebook and online activity.

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Here are a few highlights from the September 20 cover-dated issue, priced just £1.80…

YOUR BEST SUPERMARKET BAITS – and find out how to get the best of them. Bill Rushmer is your guide as real readers chip in with ideas too.

BEST GEAR FOR BAGGING UP – find out what is hot amongst anglers seeking big catches on commercial pools.

AUTUMN TENCH TIPS – as leaves start to fall, more tench could fall to your baits if you time it right. John Bailey explains.

SHIMANO EXCLUSIVES – what’s new, including first look at a compact long-cast Baitrunner reel.

MAGIC OF MULLET - Gary Newman joins TV film-maker Hugh Miles, who shares a passion for grey ghosts.

BIG NEWS!

• Veteran pike star Mick Brown lands huge fish on DVD
• Monsters of the Moor
• Huge healthy fish in “sick” river
• Germans rule carp world
• Great day for lucky seven winners
• Stalker nets 91 lb carp brace
• Record 5 lb crucian carp scoops Fox award

PLUS!

• Gareth Goldson shows he catches big rudd on a river
• Colin Davidson’s soft carp baits pointers
• The No.1 Q&A, Secret Lives of Coarse Fish and Easy Learning

And WHERE TO FISH THIS WEEKEND – your No.1 weekend guide, compiled by our local experts.