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"After 2 very strange years it seems that the world is returning to some sort of normality. That means travelling and fishing abroad again, something that we had always taken for granted but more recently has meant jumping through many administrative hoops. Still, we do it because we love it, and the extra paperwork hasn’t dulled the desire to seek new challenges and visit old friends, none more so than our good friend Gio. His cult baby, Monkey Climber Magazine has recently turned 10, meaning that it’s nearly 10 years since we first visited Belgium to fish and film." "It...

We took a family holiday in July and because of that we had some special deals and a mega competition on the website. Here's the lucky winners: Attractive Baits bundle Diego Banckaert Efficient Carp Baits 5 kilo coffee creams Chris van Agthoven RidgeMonkey full rigbox Hans van Vrouwerf Carpleads end tackle bundles Daniel Regenhardt Steven Verhelpen Lena Schepens Kenny Verbeke Oliver Scharnwever Tomasz Panczuk Maximillien Brancart Ismael Puttemans

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.   Here's a selection of 6 gold label amber glass tubs with the best of the best we can get for you. Our social media accounts went mad when we dropped a preview a couple of months ago. 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...

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In the past few weeks, numbers of carp have been dying over at Lac du Der Chantecoq. Not only carp but numerous other species like catfish, birdlife and, rumour has it, deer too. Official sources speak of only 70 dead carp, mainly caused by post spawning stress as a local newspaper reports. However, if one adds up all testimonies by local and international anglers in Facebook groups and the like that number can easily be multiplied by ten or even more. There's little official info of what is going on exactly and if or when a water analysis has been made. On...