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| In The Shop |
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| The Spirit of Carp Fishing Big Carp Challenge - BR |
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Online Price £
19.99 |
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| Carp for Life By Len Arbery |
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Online Price £
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| About Us |
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Our History...
Through the 80s the only carp-fishing magazines available were those published by the carp organisations; the Carp Society’s half-yearly Carp Fisher, the Carp Anglers Association’s half-yearly Carp Catcher, and the BCSG’s Carp, published annually. Tim Paisley was the founding editor of the first colour carp magazine, Carp Fisher, first published in November 1981. Through the 80s Tim could see that the world of carp fishing was expanding and anticipated the need for a regular carp publication available on the streets via the newsstands. In 1987 he approached a distributor to see if a commercial carp magazine would work. Initially resistance was high. There were already two angling weeklies, and a couple of angling monthlies, but the idea of a single-species angling magazine was looked on with scepticism.
Fortunately one specialist distributor, the late Hylton-Lacey from Ascot , was impressed enough by Tim’s work with Carp Fisher to take on board the concept of a newsstand carp magazine. It took nearly a year of negotiations but in the spring of 1988 publishing and distribution agreement was reached. The first issue of Carpworld – then quarterly – was published in late August 1988. Over the first couple of years ‘quarterly’ soon became bi-monthly, then, when the first newsstand competitor appeared in the shape of Rob Maylin’s Big Carp, Carpworld went monthly, and has gone from strength to strength ever since. Angling Publications then decided to launch Crafty Carper in 1997 and in 2003 the additional titles Carp-Trade and International Carper were added to the list of monthly magazines published by the company.
Book publishing has always been part of Angling Publications’ activities, although the early flurry of titles came at a time when magazines sales were clearly impacting on book sales. In the early 90s the book publishing was put on the back burner for a few years. With the continuing growth of carp fishing the book market opened up again in the late 90s, and through our thriving mail-order business we now sell numerous titles – including the Laneman-published titles, which we purchased early in 2004. We have resumed publishing our own titles, too, and over the years we have published two new titles from Tim Paisley & Friends, Carp! and Memories of Carp, plus our highly acclaimed ‘Uncovered’ series in the shape of Carp Rigs Uncovered and Carp Baits Uncovered and the now updated version The Ultimate Carp Rig Book, plus Another Romp With Carp by Albert Romp and Carp Along The Way by Rod Hutchinson Volume 1and 2 plus Just For The Record by Lee Jackson.
The running of the company is undertaken by Directors Philippa Dean and Jemima Musson. Our busy advertising department is working at a fast pace with Kristian Bell and Daniel Proctor sharing the workload. The expanding Mail Order department is manned by Yasmin Hutchinson, the helpful voice on the end of the line when you ring to order books, dvds and subscriptions etc, and the now named Kitty (Kate)Walker is PA to Jemima and Pip.
Our Editorial team Tim Paisley, Jerry Bridger, Nigel Banks and James Turner ensure our magazines provide what readers want. Our in-house design team are Gary Hood, who is also now our Production Manager, Rachel Ward, Andy Gascoigne, and Sally Estcourt, and last, but not least, comes our production department, Sandra Proctor (Sheffield United fan), who has been with us since February 1989 – and does most of our type-setting – Lynda Glover and Tim Paisley Jnr. (Blackpool fan, shame about that!). Spare a thought for these guys. The production department handles upwards of 150,000 words (two good-sized books) about carp fishing every month!
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