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Here you’ll find our 10-angler shortlist for the Cypography Angler of the Year award. Big carp fishing sits at the core of everything we do, and our aim is to provide a voting system that truly reflects the biggest, best, and most hard-earned captures of the calendar year.
Take a deep dive, watch the video, enjoy the images, and cast your vote today!
Robbie Briers has spent the year dropping photos of carp that most anglers can only dream of.
He kicked things off in style with a pair of North-West mirrors at 39lb and 40lb — an achievement that speaks for itself given how rare fish of that calibre are in the region.
As the year unfolded, Robbie success continued, landing several other 40lb+ carp from a vast, 90-acre, days-only venue in the Midlands.
These fish are among the finest we’ve seen in recent times: notoriously elusive, and only ever slipping up to the most dedicated of anglers.
Ricci Connolly hit the ground running, landing several big fish from a non-publicity venue as early as March.
In April he turned his attention to the Wharf Pool syndicate in Essex, where he enjoyed an exceptional run of form, banking a large number of carp topped by the lake’s second-in-command and the big’n, Black Spot, at a massive 56lb 12oz.
Summer saw Ricci continue his momentum, adding two more big commons and the lake’s largest resident, White Tips, at a spawned-out weight of 44lb from an Essex club water.
He also took his angling abroad, at Lac Chanterine in France, he caught 20 carp to the mid-fifties, and on the Belgian canals he slipped the net under an incredible mirror.
In August, Ricci began fishing at Wellington Country Park, where he has since landed 45 carp, these include at least six 40-pounders and the lake’s biggest mirror at over 55lbs.
Most recently, he rounded off his remarkable year with a brace of 40-pounders from a lake in Kent — the perfect finish to a truly unforgettable 12 months.
Former Drennan Cup winner, turned carp angling supremo Alan Stagg, has had a year any seasoned carp man would admire.
Focusing his efforts largely on the Frimley complex he has caught monster carp from three of lakes.
His impressive tally includes no less than three different 50-pounders, four 40-pounders, and stacks of thirties.
Amongst all this he has all caught carp to over 40lbs from a monstrous, 300-acre pit in Reading.
All this despite spending a significant spell in pursuit of big tench!
Dean Fletcher is no stranger to big carp, but this year has been remarkable even by his high standards.
He realised a dream by landing a 50lb+ mirror from the famous and notoriously difficult, Savay Lake.
He also added mirrors of 53lb 12oz, 48lb, 47lb, and 44lb from Wellington Country Park, along with other big carp from the Tippings Lane Syndicate, topped by a 41lb mirror.
Catching big carp across multiple venues is no mean feat — yet Dean has done it, and done it in style!
Staring with a pair of incredible big carp from two separate non-publicity syndicate waters.
He then kept the roll going with another two 40-pounders on consecutive nights from a lake close to home in Norfolk.
Lee later added a 40lb surface-caught mirror from Lake 8 on the Woolpack Fishery, again the lakes biggest carp.
His exceptional run also included the biggest mirror from the Waterways syndicate, along with several notable captures from various club and syndicate venues.
Among his many highlights, the fish he landed from a 65-acre sailing pit remain particular favourites of ours.
It’s hard to imagine a better start to the year than landing a 65lb common, yet that’s exactly how Logan Easton kicked things off.
Just hours after Waterside Kingfisher Lake thawed in January, he caught the countries largest known common carp, setting the tone for what would become an exceptional year.
Across the months that followed, Logan continued to catch carp from a range of venues, including Cartagena and the Walthamstow lakes, despite losing a sizeable chunk of the summer to a hand injury.
Most recently, only a week or so ago, he landed a colossal 57lb mirror from a days-only lake in the Cotswolds, rounding off a season defined by carp of truly staggering proportions.
Having flitted between multiple waters, he managed to land a trio of forties from three different venues.
In spring, he kicked things off with a rarely-caught 40lb common from the Tippings Lane Syndicate.
Summer saw him bank Farnham Flint’s prehistoric “Big Common” at an impressive 43lb.
Most recently, he rounded off the run with a 41lb mirror from an Essex syndicate — a remarkable hat-trick by any standard.
He opened his year with a 42lb mirror from Dinton’s Black Swan lake, a fish he dearly wanted to catch. This led nicely into a campaign with a masterclass of calm, methodical angling on the vast 60-acre Large Lake, landing the Croc at 43lb 12oz – a carp renowned for testing even the very best.
He didn’t stop there; alongside it came the lake’s second and third in command at 42lb and 43lb, completing a trio most anglers would wait a lifetime for.
Moving on to Cambridgeshire’s Longreach, another formidable pit and an ultra-challenging venue, Myles once again rose above every obstacle.
In typically decisive fashion, he banked a 41lb linear and then the incredible Mutleys Mirror at 44lb+. Two carp that should take years to even see, let alone catch, added to the same photo album within a single calendar year.
Simon Crow has been focusing his efforts on two venues in Lincolnshire.
He has been consistently catching big fish, with untold 30lb and 40lb carp among them, capped by an impressive 49lb 8oz mirror.
Never one to shy away from adding giants to his already packed European album, he also secured a superb 71lb common during a trip to a German syndicate water.
Proof that whether you live in the epicentre of big carp or not, you can catch big fish if you’re willing to travel.
Tom Stokes began his campaign on the Wellman’s Syndicate, a low-stock, 90-acre gravel pit in Reading – where he kicked things off with both a 40lb+ mirror and a 40lb+ common. Summer brought one of the standout moments of his year: the capture of The Lord of the Manor at 57lb, an incredible fully-scaled giant.
Not long after, he went on to land Billy’s Lake’s first-ever 40-pounder at the Norton Disney complex. Rolling into autumn, Tom added a beautiful 44lb common caught on the float from a lake close to his home in Birmingham. He then capped the year with a haul from France, a session that produced multiple fifties as well as two huge mirrors of 64lb and 67lb.
Entries close on Thursday 17th December, and the winning angler will be announced on Friday 19th December.
