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Tom Bankes is a name most in the Benelux and European scene won't be familiar with, but in the UK he is one of the main underground characters without hardly any publicity to his name. To our knowledge, Phil Lowry's 'The Brook' book is one of the publications with a rare Tom Bankes picture in it. This very secretive angler now wrote the first part of a trilogy, a book that - just flicking through it - gives us the same shivers like Terry Hearn's In Pursuit of the Largest, this one coming in a much more appealing Still Searching...

VBK, Monkey Climber en Shimano hebben de handen in mekaar geslagen. Omdat Carp Care hoog op onze agenda staat willen we onze leden graag de mogelijkheid bieden om een onthaakmat/sling van hoge kwaliteit aan te schaffen aan de meest gunstige prijs. De prijs die u betaalt, is de prijs die wij betalen aan de productie.  Mis deze unieke opportuniteit niet! VBK – Monkey Climber – Shimano Tribal Carp care Deluxe set 1 bestaat uit: De ruime en dik gevoerde Tribal Euro Protection Mat. De top in carp care en ruimte. Deze mat is 125cm lang en 80cm breed. In de set zit de hoogwaardige Tribal Calming...

Five years ago our friend and roadie Ward caught a fingerling of only three centimetres old, from a local stillwater. In three years time he grew his baby up at home and put it into the Monkey Climber syndicate at 4.8 kilos. That was two years ago. Short after, the fish known as Pablo was caught two times and then disappeared for two years. This week we had two Dutch invites on the syndicate, Hugo and Pom, and they caught the magnificent fish at a whopping 10.8 kilos! See pics below and some more of their trip. On the Monkey Climber syndicate...

Recently we interviewed an English friend of ours over in Belgium. Among the shitload of presents he had for us was this mega set of original Gardner Tackle GT90 monkey climbers to add to our existing collection of oldschool monkey climbers from brands like Solar Tackle, Rod Hutchinson, Fox, Gardner, etc. Have you ever used monkey climbers? If so, let us know which or drop a picture in the comments.

For MC#20 we interviewed local angler Bart aka Vistje just before he passed away at the young age of 42. We made sure he could see the cover and layout before he went, but never actually saw the magazine being published. On his funeral, the big proofprint of the cover was even next to his coffin.  As a thank you Bart's mom invited us and his closest fishing friends to a really good local restaurant. All of us arranged flowers and a gift for her, but what I did not know was that she had a surprise for me too....