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Both Dieter (Forgotten Flavours) and myself (Gio Monkey Climber) were surprised and very humbled to have been asked to do a double, in depth interview about flavours/attractors old & new for the 8th British Carp Study Book. We used to read these books as kids, and dream away with all that wonderful, overseas story telling... Not in our wildest dreams could we ever have imagined to be in one of these journals ourselves. DESCRIPTION Cover size: 245 mm x 174 mmPages: 416 pages – 43 chapters.Print: Full colour throughout.Binding: Cloth-bound (hardback), with silk laminated dust jacket, cloth cover embossed in two colours on spine...

Thanks to the popularity of our hookbaits a lot of you guys keep asking us for the powders we use, either to cure your hookbaits further or to make more pop ups yourself or to have matching corkballs, wafters, etc. That's why we decided to bring a dedicated range of Gold Label hookbait powders / appetite stimulators.  Pure Cure Powder: By far our most popular sweetener type powder we use to cure our pop ups. Think of the power of Talin, but then in a powder version. PM Sweet: Rare old school stuff, highly concentrated. Use very low dosage only. We use...

Full range of our Secret Stash flavours and powders/appetite stimulators now available in Croatia through Topfishing Zagreb! Croatia is a country with a lot of big carp, distance casting, competitions and we are sure our products will go down very will in this scene as well. #monkeyclimber #secretstash  

UPDATE: Deal ended 17 SEPT 2025, no longer valid now. During the first two weeks of September Gio will be fishing in France, been too long since we've been out. Orders during this period might be delayed (his wife Eve will do her best to keep up with everything but Gio is the one who knows the stock best), we hope you understand. To compensate this: all orders will get extra free stickers orders over 75 euros (shipping excluded) will receive a free tub of unreleased Maple Squid firm hookbaits orders over 150 euros (shipping excluded) during our time off...

Syndicate Auction this one. Alan Blair / Nash Tackle kindly offered us his personal set of 3 x 12ft Pursuit rods to auction in aid of our syndicate, which has been in multiple Nash and Urban Banx films. It's also a place the likes of Alan Blair, Oli Davies & co hold dear so they just wanted to help out. This is the second of a handful of Nash prices coming up. *** As you may know, at the Monkey Climber syndicate, we had a heavy fish loss last year due to a severe air pressure drop followed by an...