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You are right , thats life grasp the time while you have it ,unfortunately you only learn this as you get older.
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#69 3 Jun 2021 at 11.44am | | |
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The biggest lesson ive learnt is nothing lasts or stays the same for ever, make hay while the sun shines, as tomorrow is ugly , it started changing when randy spittle said something about the last fronter, 
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In reply to Post #1
The whole Carp fishing scene started changing for the worse (IMO) once Rob Hughes/Simon Crow got involved and started heavily moneytising everything (think World Carp Angling Champs), then it changed again when that Joe Wright lad got involved (he went on to start Carpology if I recall correctly?)
Clever fella's obviously as they could see where things could be taken commercially and thereby effectively earn a very decent living out of it. It was obviously being tried before that (eh Ken??) but these guys definitely took things to a whole new level and were extremely professional in the way they did it.
It's not the same anymore for sure unless you're lucky enough to find your own peace of heaven away from the spomb chucking masses. Even certain stretches of the river Thames are rammed now and I for one struggle with getting as excited about Carp fishing as I used to, to the point where I keep thinking of reasons not to bother going.
Today, right now, I'd rather be sitting by a small estate lake with the mist slowly rising off the water, float fishing sweetcorn next to some lilly pads waiting for a nice fat tench or trotting a stick float down a chalk stream for some Grayling.
Maybe I'm just getting old, if I was 28 instead of 58 then I suspect Id' feel differently and be giving it the Mungaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa every weekend.
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#67 30 May 2021 at 0.35am | | |
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Such a shame. But as with most magazines the adverts take over as the print/distribution cost go up.
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#66 29 May 2021 at 11.04am | | |
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I remember the article, it was really good. Illustrated by Pete Curtis from memory. All I can recall is that they were in early issues, probably within the first 20 or so
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#65 29 May 2021 at 10.12am | | |
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Hi can anyone tell me what issue of Carpworld the Mr Carptree at Billing cartoon was in please
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#64 29 May 2021 at 9.55am | | |
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Hi as you seem to have read a lot of issues of Carpworld could you please tell me which issue the brilliant Mr Carptree cartoon was in ,ive been trying to find out for ages thankyou marbles
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#63 29 Feb 2020 at 6.53pm | | |
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yes very good
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#62 29 Feb 2020 at 12.15pm | | |
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Love that. I think all multi-format readers are great lol
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#61 24 Feb 2020 at 10.36pm | | |
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Real shame but it was always coming unfortunately. I definitely noticed a decrease in quality and an increase in advertisements.
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#60 24 Feb 2020 at 7.23pm | | |
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Get writing the next part lol
I’ve got them all in book form and on kindle
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#59 24 Feb 2020 at 7.16pm | | |
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Elliot Symaks articles on the Nene Cut were also some of my favourites
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#58 24 Feb 2020 at 7.15pm | | |
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In reply to Post #32
I loved the Hutchy tapes....
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#57 24 Feb 2020 at 11.39am | | |
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 That's great to hear. Glad you've enjoyed them so much
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#56 24 Feb 2020 at 11.04am | | |
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The first volume should be just Jim Gibbinson’s articles.
He seems to have been a bit Marmite (a phrase that he would have hated!) but I loved his work.
Gravel Pit Carp is one of the best carp books that I have read and I feel is hugely underrated.
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#55 23 Feb 2020 at 6.25pm | | |
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A trilogy of of books with all the best of carp world would be a nice finale.
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#54 23 Feb 2020 at 6.08pm | | |
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The best series of all time.
If there was anything like that in the magazines nowadays, I would buy them!
Incidentally, with hindsight, isn’t it a shame that the mag has gone out with a whisper, rather than a celebratory, final issue? I quite understand, business is business, but I’m guessing that a lot of us would have bought a final, special issue.
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#53 23 Feb 2020 at 1.25pm | | |
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Like many I bought the first ed right through until it became 50%adds. Too much good stuff to list but Tim 's articles were always good especially all the overseas stuff. Keith Moore on creating his fishery as I had never seen anyone write on what was involved.
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#52 23 Feb 2020 at 11.52am | | |
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For me there is only one article series that really sticks in my mind. Proper passionate angling.
The secret lake - Blackwater by Alan Tompkins 
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#51 23 Feb 2020 at 11.12am | | |
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Hi Mark, I reckon I must have read the whole series about 3 times now!! 
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#50 23 Feb 2020 at 11.00am | | |
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Blimey, I didn’t realise it was so long ago!
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#49 23 Feb 2020 at 2.16am | | |
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Its that series that sticks in my mind from Carpworld of the 90s. The first instalment, left me wondering if it was real or fiction! Couldn’t wait for part two. I didn’t read the following books until years later, when I purchased them on kindle. All very enjoyable.
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#48 22 Feb 2020 at 9.40pm | | |
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January 1995 was the the date of the first installment of The Syndicate in Carpworld. I began writing the sequel, The Syndicate (R.I.P.) Part II, around 1998 with the intention of setting up a website as a platform to sell both books and any future novels I might write. It was a step into the unknown at the time, and a financial risk, to get involved in this, for me, relatively new 'Internet' thing and to become a publisher. Fortunately, it went better than my wildest expectations as the series increased its popularity throughout the 2000s. Eventually, as someone has pointed out, I released the entire set on Kindle around 2014, then Google Play and last year onto Apple Books. For those of you still keen to hold a printed version they can be obtained from www.carpbooks.co.uk.. Nice to hear how some of you couldn't wait to read the next chapter on the original Carpworld serialisation
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#47 22 Feb 2020 at 7.55pm | | |
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As we have all decided that Carpworld’s demise was inevitable let’s look at the brighter side and see what people’s favourite article was, serious or humorous.
Mine was ‘ The boys from Everest’ ....god that made me laugh. A couple of guys trying to get past the noddy stage, only to find out later despite their best attempts they got their nickname due to their ‘noddy bivvies’ - priceless because we can all see a bit of ourselves in it.   
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#46 22 Feb 2020 at 5.22pm | | |
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Yoof nowa dayz read emojis. So cannot read proper punctual English
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#45 22 Feb 2020 at 3.23pm | | |
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The biggest problem for the magazines these day's is the newer trainer and gangster bling clad carper has a very low ability when it comes to reading.
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#44 22 Feb 2020 at 2.26pm | | |
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Hopefully they’ll all be gone soon. We’re at a point where media content can be instant, interactive, isn’t a drain on the planet’s resources, has a smaller carbon footprint and doesn’t come wrapped in bloody plastic.
People want to read stories of myth and mystery but on such a small Island with people trying to catch carp for 50 odd years by design, you’re always stirring some other fellas porridge.
Or they want to read about somewhere other than the day tickets, only you can’t because the places worth reading about don’t want advert man to rope off the lake.
Anyone genuinely interesting would be better off telling it in a book, and they generally do
So you’re left with stick mix recipes and Neanderthals in tracksuits, ta da magazines 
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#43 22 Feb 2020 at 11.03am | | |
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There was some great contributors, topics and posts on Cemex / anglers forum, but I found as good as it was, It become a victim of elitism bulls**t and got too up itself, Yateley this and that. Anything else wasn’t cool with the regulars..
Different theories or opinions were nearly thought to be totally wrong. Couldn’t play sensibly and always got out of hand and too personal and topics locked.
Then the Trojan horse bug didn’t help it either.
There is a lot of great contributors and materials out there amongst us, the trick is to use it fairly and sensibly, without disclosing too many personal edges if you have a business interest, in a manner that appeals and interests to all, gets people’s thinking, loving the hobby/sport for what is is, without getting OTT
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#42 22 Feb 2020 at 10.13am | | |
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It's good to see this forum going strong but you will get people moaning that it's too difficult to use and needs to be modernised. I reckon that would be a mistake the best posts on here are by people who make the effort to write good posts. If you made it like Facebook for instance it will get watered down by 'likes' and filled up with those stupid signs or those silly short clips that go on for ever on a loop
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#41 22 Feb 2020 at 9.32am | | |
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Your right there Mike, I had 15 links to Carp related forums in the links section on my Web site - did a quick check last year and 14 were now defunct!
I think the demise of forums and Mags has a lot to do with repetitive "Bull S###", you can only read it for so long or look at it so much. They used to get away with it before social media, WhatsApp etc... not so easy now.
Mags problem was the advertisers got to the point where they was dictating what a Mag could put in it pages, and if the Mag did not agree with something, tuff - print it or we won't advertise with you.
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#40 22 Feb 2020 at 7.43am | | |
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I think Tim P stepping down was a factor but also Facebook and the rise of on line forums were a contributory factor.
It's also interesting that a number of really good carp /fishing forums have fallen by the way too.
Cemax and fishing warehouse to name a couple.
As I'm from "tup North" Cemax wasn't my first choice but fishing warehouse was always my first website I'd go to, I spent many hours posting and reading the comments on their.
I don't know why those to website forums shrank?
It's good to see this site seems to be returning to a busier one.
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#39 22 Feb 2020 at 3.11am | | |
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I remember buying my first copy of Carpworld. Number 33, must have been very early 90s. Purchased every copy for the next 20 years and read them all cover to cover. The syndicate series was excellent! I wouldn’t be surprised if someone took over and brought it back, but it will always be Tim Paisleys, Carpworld.
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#38 21 Feb 2020 at 11.10pm | | |
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I agree Chuffy, there was still plenty of decent stuff in Carpworld under Martin Ford.
Tim was a, very hard act to follow though.....the carp scene’s very own Alex Ferguson.
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#37 21 Feb 2020 at 10.54pm | | |
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Remember reading that, classic.
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#36 21 Feb 2020 at 10.05pm | | |
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I don’t think it was Martin’s fault particularly as it didn’t get any better under the chap that followed him, the main problem was that no one was ever going to do it like Tim Paisley, simple really.
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#35 21 Feb 2020 at 9.18pm | | |
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Think MF's tenure as Editor was the turning point 
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#34 21 Feb 2020 at 9.15pm | | |
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Good Old days the Magazines i've got loads of Carp Mags dating back to the 1990s in my storage room. Old CarpTalks, Carpworlds, Advanced Carp you name them there in these bags.
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#33 21 Feb 2020 at 6.22pm | | |
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Doubt it very much, t'internet has killed magazine publishing! Maylins mags are Free online now, Carptalk has gone....really only Total Carp and Carpology left. Carpology are giving so much stuff away with subscriptions now( over 100 quids worth recently) that they probably will go under fairly soon unfortunately! I just need to get a refund for my subscription to Carpworld.......fat chance of that I think.
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#32 21 Feb 2020 at 5.49pm | | |
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I'm quite pleased reading a lot of these remarks as I just thought it was me that had changed and fallen out of love with the mag. I've bought maybe half a dozen issues since Martin Ford's reign and have never finished reading a single one.
My favourite writers were Jim Gibbinson and Harry Haskell, by a mile.
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#31 21 Feb 2020 at 5.13pm | | |
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It was 1995
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#30 21 Feb 2020 at 4.50pm | | |
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It must have been 1998 when The Syndcate was serialised in Carpworld, the book was published in 1999.
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#29 21 Feb 2020 at 2.34pm | | |
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someone will buy it and take it over. Carpworld will carry on
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#28 21 Feb 2020 at 12.05pm | | |
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You can buy the whole series for Kindle now
LINK
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#27 21 Feb 2020 at 10.35am | | |
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OMG yes - ‘Syndicate book"
I took was hooked, could not wait to get the follwing months editions.
Blimey ( what year was it ?)
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#26 21 Feb 2020 at 10.05am | | |
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Used to love reading CW, but as others have said before it changed, not for the better. I too used to have boxes full of them, which only went to the tip a couple of years ago, sold 1-10 in the binder. I now wish I'd kept the early ones as you can't get that info back and though dated it reminded me of why I got into fishing for Carp predominantly, nostalgia trip I know. I used to really enjoy the TDP Globetrotter articles, opened the horizons.
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#25 21 Feb 2020 at 9.43am | | |
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Yup, unfortunately run its course and social media, YouTube videos have all the content we need now.
I've got at least 1-100 of the carpworld mags gathering dust
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#24 21 Feb 2020 at 7.50am | | |
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It’s a shame but inevitable that it would end the way it has. I bought the very first copy & every copy for the next 15 odd years but it turned into more of an advertising board than a magazine over the last 10yrs or so. I can’t remember the last time I bought a copy. I remember when they serialised the first ‘Syndicate’ book, I couldn’t wait for the next months copy to come out to carry on reading the story!
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#23 20 Feb 2020 at 9.06pm | | |
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#22 20 Feb 2020 at 8.52pm | | |
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It is a shame, but has run its course.
You can only regurgitate and recycle the same old stuff for so long, you know reinventing the wheel gets boring, same advertising sponsors with too much input, plugging the same lake, same bait, same product, etc, but different anglers. Yawn.
When a quality person pens an original & informative and well written article is in there - it really stands out.
Once upon a time the whole mag was like that.
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#21 20 Feb 2020 at 8.14pm | | |
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It became repetitive.
I stopped buying it when they did a three page feature on how Jules arranges his Bivvy 🎪
It was the main diet of info back in the day though
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#20 20 Feb 2020 at 8.02pm | | |
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Got to agree
TP writings I could always make sense of, simply brilliant. The best carp leader ever, without doubt, and that’s not a knock of the others. Top drawer
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#19 20 Feb 2020 at 6.12pm | | |
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Had every issue of Carpworld from No 1 , subscription since issue 100......was a great magazine for many years, but recently something changed and it just wasnt the same any more.....was just about to cancel subscription as I was not even reading it all any more.....suppose I'll need to get a refund now.
Loved the old Carpworld trips to Fishabil, met some well known anglers on those, Big Bill Cottam, Simon Crow, Rob Hughes, John Lilley, Micky Sly and Brian Skoyles amongst others (KIng Cone, Roddy Porter,,)...internet kills another carp mag, only Carpology and Total Carp left
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#18 20 Feb 2020 at 5.28pm | | |
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Thank you, NW.
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#17 20 Feb 2020 at 2.02pm | | |
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A shame to see it go but it sounds like CW has run it's course Ended up with to mu h advertising that basically subsidised it. Still wear my Original "and still the best hoodie". That's gotta be pushing 20 yrs old lol
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#16 20 Feb 2020 at 10.00am | | |
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All fishing magazines come and go but Carpworld was the one I'd occasionally buy over the last few years. I did enjoy the time when the International Carp scene had it's section at the back of the mag. That stuff was an eye opener and very inspirational.
But I do find most magazines tedious in this modern age. Too many adverts (too much temptation), to much plugging of gear and bait, far too much hyperbole and very little original writing style. Add to that the intergoogle and magazines seem quite old hat.
Mind you, I've still got boxes of 'Fishing', Creel, Coarse Fisherman, Coarse Angling Today, Waterlog.....
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#15 20 Feb 2020 at 9.17am | | |
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Carpworld was my bible in the 90's spent many an hour reading the articles from cover to cover but then it was full of anglers supplying good content (adverts aside).
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#13 20 Feb 2020 at 8.47am | | |
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Echo all the below comments. Great magazine in the 90's. For some reason I bought one for the first time in years about 6 months ago.... It was atrocious, I recall Peckys article being the only one of any quality.
Always liked your 'tapes to Tat', Mr T. The one on the mega storms on the mid French reservoir was, in my view, the best thing you wrote.
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#12 20 Feb 2020 at 8.29am | | |
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Very sad news, but the mag's end was inevitable. It became far too elitist, as Neil has mentioned. IMO the Ford era totally ****ed the magazine and it never really recovered. If only Tim had stayed at the helm then the good ship Carpworld would have sailed on into a continuing bright and glossy future, However, I know Tim has many other concerns to deal with and editing the magazine is just too much for a guy well into his 80s.
EDIT: Tim, Carp Fisher and then Carpworld were my springboard into a working life in the industry, for which I am profoundly grateful.
So long, Carpworld, and thanks for all the fish.
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#11 20 Feb 2020 at 7.44am | | |
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Sad that its gone, but i stopped buying it when as said before, you can only write and read about PVA bag fishing in the weed so many times or Martin Ford ****ed on about his celeb mates fishing.
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I have a few old Carpworlds still from the 90's and looking through them the most shocking thing is seeing the amount of tackle shops that have now disappeared, nearly all of them
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#9 19 Feb 2020 at 11.47pm | | |
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Same here, and same as posts 6 and 7.
I always felt like a bit of an oddball in the early years. I was a ‘spezzie hunter’ interested in carp which made me what I thought was an oddity in a traditional match fishing region. Little did I know in those secret squirrel days that just a few miles down the road fledgling carpers were fishing Roman lakes - the same lakes I’d fished as a kid FFS...talk about under your nose and being totally blindsided. Also breakthroughs in bait, tackle and tactics generally passed me by. I left the country in 76 still not quite meshing with the scene, and failing to find my own waters. Over in Germany it was slightly better as I quickly fell in with a group of German lads who through Dutch contacts were more advanced. The one day in a army garrison town called Hohne I chanced on a magazine called Carpworld. I couldn’t believe what I was reading. It was packed with what was then quite secretive stuff, plus ideas being bandied around. For the first time I wasn’t behind the curve, I was, if not at it’s inception, then somewhere on the initial take off. Black and white line drawings showed what I had already tried to do myself but with more clarity and finesse. Silicone, PVA, shrink tube, HNV therories, birdseed, feeding triggers et al. I immediately put in a yearly subscription and each item was read and re-read. Countless times. And at the back Blackadder, a deeply satirical piss take of people who you didn’t personally know but got a good slagging in a humorous pre Twitter style.
Fast forward a few years and the black and white line drawings were replaced by slick professional photo’s by pro photographers who accompanied ‘names’ who fished during the week, every week, week in, week out and featured all the time. This coupled with articleson Raduta Lake or fishing the St Lawrence river which most of us with a job and a couple of kids was well beyond our dreams, made it a bit elitist. By now Continental carper was incorporated into the magazine and although this was of great interest for those of us on our fledgling trips to France, seeing pictures of groups of ‘known’ anglers going on an overseas trip with literally 100’s of kilos of bait ‘supplied by X company ( for free) was again a slap in the face for the vast majority who actually pay for ours. Of course these company’s all had adverts in the magazine and for the first time some started to question the articles and the links to the trade.
Fast forward a few more years and we had the first angling ‘Celebs’ and people were now carping as the new ‘cool hobby’. Gone were the years of progression through general course fishing, but a new breed was coming into the sport. Carpworld embraced them and under Martin Ford era the magazine changed direction. East Enders stars featured in major articles and people exploded onto the ‘scene’ to become overnight names. Ironically it was embracing these ideals which later signalled the death of the magazine. They welcomed with open arms the very thing that would kill them.
So I prefer to remember the ‘old’ Carpworld. The magazine which was a refreshing break from the secret squirrel era but which only gave you enough info on how to do it yourself - you got the info but couldn’t pop down to the tackle shop or online to buy it - you still had to make it yourself and in doing that understood it better.
A brilliant magazine of its time which like the Roman Empire sadly embraced the the very thing which brought it down.
A sad day but not too surprising when you think about it
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#8 19 Feb 2020 at 10.32pm | | |
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This when it started was the only mag that came close to Carpfisher at the time .
I had them all up to 267.
Kept 1-100 and binned the rest as the content was less than the adverts .
And punting modern heroes wasn’t really doing it for me .
Classic contributions from Jim , Rod , Paisley , and others just dried up .
Julian was contributing more to fill the gaps and you can only invent the wheel so many times .
Korda DVD,s didn’t help and then it was all DVD,s punted out by every company .
The whole scene is now over exposed , over hyped and the soul of what it is all about is on life support .
Shame but as they say that’s progress .
Not for me anymore I’m afraid .
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#7 19 Feb 2020 at 10.03pm | | |
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I have the same feelings as you. I think it was the only magazine that was able to capture the essence of carp fishing, or it was years ago. Always had the best contributors and they were allowed to write long copy, the mag seemed to be as thick as an Argos catalogue back then. Sad times.
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I wouldn’t worry, I’m sure that they will sort out a refund.
I’m sad to hear this, although I have not bought a copy for a few years now.
I was literally obsessed with this magazine when it came out, I think my first issue was issue 4, I would have been about 15 years old and I hung on every word. I did not understand it, it was simply amazing. What was silkworm? What was a Savay seed mix? Nothing else, or little else, mattered at that time.
A few years later, through the help of Carpworld and countless hours on the bank I had worked it out. I did not need Carpworld any more, but that is not to say that I was not grateful.
Long Live Carpworld.
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Now that is disappointing for me. Another one bites the dust, sign of the times 
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I always thought carpworld had too higher opinion of itself so only bought a few edition.
Better mags already folded, online content is limited at best, it's change but change for the worse imo.
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As a long term subscription holder I feel mugged off to be honest, my wife buys my subscription in December every year as a Christmas present. So there is a few words in the front editorial to say it’s the last edition or they may be back and to contact the subscription department for either gift vouchers or alternative subscriptions with other magazines. At the back of the magazine in a regular feature Tim Paisley says they knew the closure was in the ‘offing’ in December if this is the case why the hell were they still taking subscriptions in December! Surely that’s taking money under false pretences? So I already have a subscription for CARPology not interested in total carp or gifts for anglers so looks like the wife’s lost her money!!
Michael
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In reply to Post #1
Remember buying number one with Hutchy on the cover, bought if for years but it was overtaken by mags with a more modern approach particularly with regards to online content.
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Got the March issue of Carpwold delivered today. Sad to see it looks like it's the last one. Publishers no longer wish to print it. Existing subs can be swapped at gifts for anglers or Carpology or Total Carp magazine.
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