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Our friends Mark Hoedemakers (former VBK president) and Theo Pustjens (random cool guy, should go for president) are in the final stages of their upcoming book Heylakker, De Kronieken van de Surf.  As said in the title this book will be truly unique, as it's the first time ever a book is being made about one specific Belgian syndicate (i.e. Heylakker aka The Surf). In this way both makers hope to preserve the rich history and many, many crazy stories about this very prolific venue. Yours truly (random dude running MC mag) wrote a guest piece in it too, about...

Our friends in Hammer Tackle (see first issue cover) have filmed our former intern Lucas recently on this huge, forgotten inland sea over in France. The video is in French (German version also available) and gives you an insight in what thrives a young man to tackle a very low stocked venue as big as a couple of thousand acres! 

Hi mate, a couple of months ago we published the 5 question with Maurice Flanx which was quite popular on our blog. How's Flanx doing today and how does the brand stand in these strange Covid times? Hi Mate! Yes, it's all kinda strange... Like most of us in the angling industry, we had a very good 1,5 years! We were somehow the winners of Covid! But I very highly advice the industry to be cautious, because we will also suffer... just later! You start seeing it now, the whole supply chains are interrupted... We have now lead times of 6, 8 or...

Since the start of Covid we've been extremely busy thanks to your massive support all over Europe and beyond. Personally I only took one week off this year for some public adventure in Paris but haven't had any time off with the family yet.  That's why we will not ship anything out for the rest of the month. Under current travel restrictions we might as well stay home but still we won't be working in the next 14 day period, spend some time with the 4 year old at home, hope you understand.  Anyone who orders in the second part of August...

No, we don't have any commercial ties with the fairly new Dutch bait company Biemans Baits. So why plug it on here? Because we love a bit of journalism and the sustainability in the vision of Daan Biemans, its owner and former writer in our mag, might just be the future way for many bait companies around the globe. We asked 5 questions to Daan and it's well worth a read!   Hi Daan, you just launched your brand into a very competitive Benelux bait market, but with a totally different concept. Insect based baits. Say what!? If somebody had told me a few...