Massive Carp everywhere in Spain

Lot’s of reports of massive fish coming out of Spain. Last month I received no less than 4 fotos of fish over 60lb. Most of which have been caught from Spain’s ‘hot zone’, Extremadura. The recently (Dynamite Baits), sponsored Angler Peter Staggs has himself manged to winkle one of those big 60lb plus fish out. Photos and info about this capture soon to be released in the next issue of CARPdiem. Peter has also had a nice 21kg plus common from the lake he is now booking agent for lake Alfarofia in Portugal. You can read more about this lake via Peters website Not only has Peter had these two fish but he has also managed a string of Comizo Barbel to near 30lb. you could say he is on a roll at the mo! Likewise James Harrison over at FAT has been into some decent fish from Brava. It was fishing it’s nuts off on the last weekend of March before it was closed for a month. We were getting news all over the place of people catching lot’s of fish to upper 30’s and 40’s. A massive fish which has also come out of Brava is this jocking monster 28.500kg. This fish (the really fat one in the slide show above), has actually been caught twice in the last month! Once again evidence that suggests these Spanish waters are seeing some pressure. Certainly from what I can see, things are really moving quickly this side. Carp fishing is becoming very popular indeed. Roberto the chap with big fish, has agreed to do a feature in our magazine about the capture of this fish and many others he has had. This feature will be out in our May issue of CARPdiem, which means we will have two features with two fish over 60lb, that will do!

I’d better be off now, the tom-tom bells are ringing. More news coming soon about the rod bending carp action from Spain via this blog and the mag.

Tight lines.

Andy Macgregor