Catch Reports

You can't keep a good man down!

Posted in Catch Reports on 05th June 2013

Here's a face some of you might recognise. It's Andy Waller with another massive UK caught carp - a... Read more

Another big common succumbs to the Black Snail!

Posted in Catch Reports on 05th June 2013

Team Essential member Martin Finan has been getting amongst the big fish again in recent weeks with... Read more

Confused Common!

Posted in Catch Reports on 04th November 2012

Lee Carpenter is one of those consistent anglers who always seems to get amongst the... Read more

Yet another B5 caught lake record!

Posted in Catch Reports on 03rd November 2012

Matt Davies has caught an enviable amount of big fish from home and abroad in recent years and his... Read more

Just mind blowing!

Posted in Catch Reports on 27th October 2012

Over the past several weeks we have been receiving a number of catch reports from Richard Kelly and... Read more

Honesty is the best policy!

Posted in Catch Reports on 26th October 2012

Unlike some bait companies we could mention (cough!) Essential Baits have never had any interest in... Read more

Instant success!

Posted in Catch Reports on 25th October 2012

Young up-and-coming carper angler Ben Thompson is having a terrific year since switching over to... Read more

Mission accomplished!!

Posted in Catch Reports on 12th July 2012

UK commons really don't get any better than this immaculate 48lb 2oz specimen recently caught by... Read more

B5 blitz on Linear St Johns!

Posted in Catch Reports on 10th July 2012

This has to be one of the best catch reports of 2012 and just goes to prove how much of an... Read more

20+, 30+, 40+, 50+, 60+ and a 70+ in just 12-hours!!!

Posted in Catch Reports on 05th July 2012

You won't see many foreign catch reports of this site but when a customer contacts you to say... Read more


The journey continues

Mike Willmott wrote his first book, Carp Life, way back in 2002 and it received high praise from all quarters with many angler's proclaiming it to be the finest carp book ever written. The demand was enormous and just two years later, all copies had completely sold out. Due to demand, the book was finally re-printed in 2006, but now, more than a decade later and after five years of putting it all together, the long-awaited follow up to this extraordinary publication has arrived!

This 464-page publication is far bigger again than Carp Life 1, and includes hundreds of different images, line drawings and sketches that have never been published before. Mike very rarely writes in the magazines these days, but all of this unseen material has now come to fore in this new eagerly awaited book that is about to take the carp world by storm.