Franklin lands a common carp of 23kg (50.4Lbs) Orellana Spain

Dave Franklin landed yet another monster from the depths of Orellana with this 50lb 4oz common carp, according to Dave it has never been caught before, just imagine that 50 and a virgin....poor thing.

And just before Christmas Dave had this fine specimen of 37.4 Lbs. Good work Dave.

COMING SOON..... for an exclusive Catsncarp article on Moroccos big Carp scene.

I am just back from a hectic 4 day tour of Morocco, I found some fish, some big fish and an untouched water that could just contain a new world record..... Watch this space.

thanks to: Fat Angling Tours

The current World Record Mirror and Common Carp.

Are you looking for the 2008 World record Mirror? if so click here

Or the World Record Common Carp? if so click here


If you read my last post you will know that The world record article I wrote got allot of readers. Whilst I was exploring all the different web sites that linked up to my story, as they published the news of the capture to their readers, I noticed a few errors, wrong weights and dates etc, so I just wanted to clarify the current record situation for Mirror and Common.

World Record Mirror Carp 38.4KG (84lb 8oz)

Gary Hagues - Fishing the Rainbow Lake in France landed a world record mirror carp of 87lb 2oz to beat the previous record by Pete Fitzsimmons (84lb 8 oz) which had stood for just three weeks.
This was a repeat capture for Gary as he had caught the fish the year before from the same swim at a weight of 83lb 8oz.

Gary with his 2005 capture of the record

World Record Common Carp

New World record Common Carp captured by Dieter Markus Stein on the 17th December 2006 at 38.15kg (83.93 lbs)
Dieter was fishing with the new Vpop white popups glugged in Carptrak amino dip, both from Imperial Baits.

More World Record Fish?

New World Record Common Carp at 38.15kg

Want to see the current World Record Carp? - click here

The world record common Carp was hooked and landed on December the 17th 2006 by Dieter Markus Stein, fishing a German water.




The weigh in of the fish was witnessed by 14 different people from local Carp fishing clubs.




Dieter had targeted this fish as his target for 2007 but a short trip to the water gave him this stunning common as an early Christmas present.





Dieter was fishing with the new Vpop popups in white glugged in Carptrak amino dip, both from Imperial Baits.












Thanks to carp GPS, fish madrid, carpones and imperial baits.


Would you like to see photos and videos of the World Record Mirror Carp?

The World Record mirrors and common Carp

World Record Mirror Carp 2006.





And the womens world record a 62.6 lbs common


And the World Record Common




Still photos thanks to Carpgate:
















Would you like to see the New World Record Common Carp caught on 17th December 2006?