1960s to the present day have benefitted from Jim’s wise words. On top of this you have his unprecedented five carp only books spanning over 45 years.

 

Jim has also been instrumental in the design of carp rods, ringing patterns etc. Rods such as the ‘Clooper’ carp rod, Tri Cast and Eclipse ranges were groundbreaking and hugely successful both at home and abroad.

His first twenty-pounder came in the mid 1960s from Peterborough‘s famous ‘Electricity Cut’ and Jim has been catching worthwhile carp ever since. He was also a major influence in the pursuit of winter carp and his cold water carping successes attracted a great many carp anglers to dust down their carp rods even when snow lay on the ground.

His clear and factual, no nonsense writing style has made him one of the most widely read carp fishing authors ever. A true Carp Fishing Hall of Fame member.

Where to start??? Well it’s not good and it’s not bad.... To begin we would like to now fill anyone in who does not know that Daiwa are a japan based company, as many people will say "that’s so japan style" well yeah because Daiwa have been based in Japan forever!

So why the ugly and cheap look? well no one is able to say yet as we are the first actually talking about this new product and we speak the truth as all of you may already know from previous blogs and reviews, first thing to point out is the tight gap to put your rod in although this is not life sized it does not look Dangler Friendly, on a plus point is smaller in size compared to other alarms on the market you may see, next bad point is why the nasty cheap leds with coloured lenses!??? For heaven’s sake why not pay 1p more for H20 Clear Leds that are 200% brighter, that takes us on to the battery life it does have an awesome battery life for the time the battery is good and up to scratch, we could go on forever giving plus and negs but overall we are confused as to why Daiwa have made this Bite Alarm? we would say let’s wait until Mr Fairbrass reviews them but to be honest I think he will stick to Delks, read below the official overview.

 

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iB-ONE Wireless Bite Indicator3-piece Set

The innovative DAIWA iB-ONE bite indicator system as set. Consisting of three iB-ONE wireless bite indicators and one receiver. Delivered in a box.

iB-ONE Wireless bite indicator

• Easy to adjust, key panel with +/- buttons
• Volume, tone & sensitivity control
• Active latching LED stays lit for 20 sec. after each bite
• High performance speaker
• Visual and acoustic Drop-back function
• Plug-in facility for illuminated swingers/hangers
• Internal magnetic wheel with rubber ring to avoid wet line slipping over roller
• Night-light function (can be switched on/off)
• Digital technology
• All previous settings are saved even without battery
• Low power consumption
• Low battery alarm
• Waterproof housing 
• Electronics protected by code
• Battery change possible when still attached to rod pod 
• Quick change release system for fast attachment on banksticks
• FM radio transmitter technology for maximum range
• Range control
• All Indicators are pre-set– no individual code setting necessary 
• Compatible with Daiwa iB-ONE R Receiver
• Theft control

iB-ONE Receiver

• Easy handling by key panel with +/- buttons
• Volume, tone & sensitivity control
• Active latching LED stays lit for 20 sec. after each bite
• High performance speaker
• Visual and acoustic Drop-Bite detection
• Digital technology
• Low battery alarm
• All previous settings are saved even without battery
• Low power consumption 
• Electronics protected by code
• Range control 
• Compatible with the DAIWA iB-ONE bite detector
• Theft control

iB-ONE Mini-Receiver

• Adjustable tone and volume
• Active latching LED stays lit for 20 sec. after each bite
• Acoustic Drop-Bite indication
• Digital technology
• All previous settings are saved even without battery
• Compatible with the DAIWA iB-ONE bite indicator

We also have Peter Mohan to thank for the very first carp magazines, the BCSG publication The Carp (the No. 3 edition in June 1970 had a printed front and back cover for the first time), and later in March 1975 the more widespread CAA magazine. Both organisations had a lively and successful regional meeting structure in place by the mid 1970s as well as holding the first organised Carp Conferences – again it was Peter Mohan who spearheaded these groundbreaking events in the history of our sport.

Peter was also the controller of a number of carp waters in the west of England and for a time ran the famous Ashlea Pool syndicate where he caught a 30-pounder in 1969.

A prolific writer on all matters carp, Peter also wrote a number of books, Carp for Everyone, Carp- Step by Step, Basic Carp Fishing and Cypry – the Story of a Carp.

As a director of Linear Fisheries, which controls a number famous carp fisheries including Elstow, Peter Mohan is still very much involved in carp fishing today.

One of the most celebrated carp anglers of modern times through his fluid and stylish writing prowess, photographic skills and of course his catches. Chris broke Dick Walker’s long-held carp record of 44lb on opening day 16th June 1980 with a Redmire mirror of

51½lb. In fact, he’d nearly broken Walker’s record some seven years earlier with a common of 43lb 13½oz, also at Redmire.

 

Chris is credited with the discovery of sweetcorn as a bait, having taken a tin to eat while fishing at Redmire in 1972, but only used half the contents. As an experiment with the remainder, he cast out a “hookfull of corn”... the rest is history.

Among the many fine books Chris has written are carp classics such as Casting at the Sun, The Secret Carp, Four Seasons and Shadows and Reflections, besides a long spell writing for the monthly magazine Coarse Fishing, another spell as the first editor of Waterlog magazine, plus dozens of articles for most of the UK angling press. Currently, Chris writes a twice-a-month feature in the Weekend edition of the Saturday Daily Telegraph.

In 1989, he embarked with Bob James and world-renowned wildlife cinematographer Hugh Miles to feature in the definitive Passion for Angling TV series. Chris even went back to Redmire Pool to land a couple of the famous old warriors for the camera.

So Nash Have had a delivery of new line arrived at HQ, yes it looks very smart and we are guessing they are either tins with a matt finish or hard cardboard tubs or Kevs second hand brylcream pots.... whatever they are they contain Nash NXT Line, as you can gather from the one box the closest it says NXT Bullet, We are guessing this is the casting line?

First Question is:
Are these Lines just another line that has had a differant sticker put on them? (Sourced)

What is the retai?

Is there room for more line in the market with all the great line products around do we need more?!

We will update everyone with more info very soon, post your comments below...

Yesterday was brilliant!
Anglers Profile Held the first ever online treasure hunt event in the history on fishing! also breaking another record for giving 76 prizes away in 3 hours, not only has no fishing website done this but has been able to organize something so big in such short time.
Anglers Profile at 11pm via the Facebook page ace announced “COMPETITION TIME! TREASURE HUNT! " as the message was spread it ended up being on 40 different high profiles, the aim was for you to find the missing treasure chests that captain jack had lost on his journey looking around AP, first you had to sign up get familiar with the site and wait for 3pm when the hunt began. There were 117 chances to win something and 500 in it to win it! Also there was the Lost Diamond, fallen Ruby, Wicked Emerald, Juicy Gold Brick, these were top prizes and if you found it, you were laughing guaranteed! After 2 hours the diamond was found by Mike Hall who was more than happy to shout out on the wall "IVE FOUND IT!" although he said he was so excited filling the form in before everyone else he didn’t have a clue what he had won! Second top contender was young Coxy he wouldn’t stop nagging for tips and fair play was searching high and low, he found the ruby which the clue was "there’s a ghost behind you" coxy discovered the ruby was behind the word you, and then the biggest laugh of the night had to be taddy, he was on the search for the emerald he took all the clues got to the carp channel looked all over just to find it was in front of him all the time it was in the position the ap logo would be :'D  and to all you others who found chests and won bags of bait and dvd's and clothes well done!

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 This year I must say I am really looking forward to hitting all events head on and and fishing experiences, I have not missed a thing yet and as a team we are getting anglers profile started now for the members that have been here for a while will be think huh? but the fact is AP has had a long beta trial and afte ironing out our biggest crease end of last year which was all of that stupid daiting website traffic we kept getting we are now proud to say anglers profile is the UK's Official Fishing Social Network and Europes Largest :) so lets crack on!

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NEXT WEEK!:

• Next week we will be holding a treasure hunt again on saturday at the same time 3pm till 6pm :D
• I feature in the new AP episodes to come ;)
• John and Adam get out on the bank next week
• AP has big meating on product development
• Ill be finishing my report with Danny Fairbrass at Wellington Syndicate.
• Also I will be fishing Wellington Myself as usual.
• Talks of  a shop being added will be confirmd
• New AP gear will be designed.

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I will send you all a sneak peak email on our new products if youd say that are coming out but most of all I just want you to enjoy AP :)

Ben Keseru Phillips

Yes! I have not written one of these for ages and really have not had the time which deserves a slap wrist for not making time! But not to worry after drinking my cup of pg tips tea I am motivated to tell you a little about my day everyday: D but first let’s find out what you missed out on last week...

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Last Week:
Anglers Profile Signed a Deal with online fishing TV so they would start supplying prizes every month for the site, the first prize is a dynamite bait kit and some DVD's of chilly on carp, this will ensure that 2012 Anglers Profile is able to offer you nonstop competitions but this year we are still trying to put together a more professional way of doing these comps which will end up just being "send your pic in and we judge it" haha.

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Last week I spoke to the Vice Chairman of the federation of welsh anglers, we discussed some very interesting topics about wales and also have some great big plans for wales on the carp scene as it is neglected big time.

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Myself Ben Keseru Phillips and Simon James travelled to Reading were Simon was my guest on the ever so popular Wellington Syndicate although you may not have heard of it, we come to an agreement that it is the best top lake in Britain if you want to say the "BEST!" but we'll leave that to you although you have to join a waiting list of 200 to get onto a lake with 50 members at £1500 a year but for the average fish being 40lb your all the way up to 52-54lb its worth a shout.

We arrived on the Thursday and finished on the Sunday 3 nights 4 days, every time we go we get this magical feeling and the anglers that are present are A* no matter which one of the 50 it is they are top dog...including myself ;) jokes, and because the last time I could make it to Wellie was last year I had was so out of touch with the methods I needed to quickly trawl some tips and tricks!

I will not give the results out now as there is a separate blog being written about this last weekend but keep your eyes peeled for it :D

Today:
Well today I will be in contact with a company by the name of Carp Balls ( www.carpballs.co.uk)

Online Fishing TV has asked us to build a new website under a new name on a different business ground.

A competition will be made up for the site.

I will be in contact with Jon Taylor the Vice Chairman from the federation of welsh anglers.

New Footage will be uploaded here of wellington before it hits its own website.
 
Taking a visit to the local Tackle Shop Reel Fishing.


Yourself:
You should get a blog up of your daily activities or just weekly Anglers love knowing what going on around the country alone your bivvy ;)

BKP