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Ik heb een vreselijk zwak voor de stokoude maar keihard uitstervende generaties Nederlandse schubs en spiegels. Ik ben er mee opgegroeid en zo nu en dan vang ik er ook nog weleens eentje. Uiteindelijk raken we ze helaas allemaal kwijt, maar de karperjeugd van tegenwoordig staat meer dan klaar en heeft ook het nodige in zich. Dat blijkt al wel…De precieze kilo’s doen er eigenlijk ook hier weer verdomd weinig toe, groot worden karpers toch wel. Absurd groot zelfs, maar ik doel op iets heel anders dan hun formaat. De indruk die ze maken. De impressie die ze achter laten....

You may have noticed that a couple of months ago we asked around for real Cassien thrift wood for a crazy idea we had with the Austrian boys from SignalWood. A local living angler sorted us a log and SignalWood took the concept even further by incorporating the famous Cassien bridge as an idea to work around in these little pieces of art they made for us. Correction actually, which they made to support our syndicate (see below). There's only 30 existing pieces of these, 3 sets are not for auction (one for our kid, and two will go to...

Recently CC Moore raised 1.000 euros through Capital Carp Competitions to help us install the necessary hardware on the Monkey Climber syndicate after the massive fish kill we had last September. The winning price was a personal tour at the CC Moore factory and a session with Ian Moore at the unique Milton Abbas syndicate. News just reached us that the winner had a great time. Ian Moore: "It was a real pleasure to have shown Simon Birch & Reece around CCM HQ and to share such a memorable session with them at Wayne Little’s fabulous Milton Abbas in Dorset....

After the success of previous firm hookbaits on this site, we did one for the Kempisch Kanaal meeting 2025 as well. The topic being Cassien, Forgotten Flavours x Geert Ooms x Monkey Climber agreed to make something as close as possible to Hutchy's original MC Reds from the Dream Team days at Cassien. MC Red standing for Monster Crab and that's what we used for this one in its purest form. Available in Dark/Red only, dumbell version 16 x 20mm. Standard cured already but extra cured version possible too. Please not these are show leftovers and limited edition only. These...

That's a wrap! Mega impression of yesterday's Kempisch Kanaal Meeting organised by Forgotten Flavours, Geertooms & Monkey Climber by Ruben Beeuwsaert- thanks for the awesome pics buddy! Monkey Climber Forgotten Flavours Geertooms.com