Dear Board,

Since I made the switch to the fixed stick (Carp) this year. A completely new discipline for me. I like this form of carp fishing. I've had it with several fish. Including this beautiful mirror carp. (Photo 1)

My record so far is this 22.07 pound common carp. (Photo 2)

Yours sincerely,

Constant van Bommel

The photos were posted with permission from C. van Bommel

Raff has recently joined our association and is accelerating as you can see in the photo. Together with Pappa he regularly fishes and is actually already a good fisherman because we don't often receive a photo from Pappa.

Norman is vandaag "enthusiastic" from our vijver in Posterholt. Hij is sinds kort Lid en heeft in deze korte tijd al enkele nieuwe leden geworven voor onze vereniging. Gisteren reports hij via Whatsapp dat hij vandaag 02-04-2021 wat tijd over had en hij zijn Vergunningen kon komen afhalen en dan even vissen aan de voor hem onbekende vijver.

De vergunning are brought aan de vijver op afspraak en hij had nog wat vraagjes, na deze aan hem answered the lift went hij weer naar zijn Stekkie en korte tijd later what a 6Kg push karper het resultaat. Hij is he dan ook zeer trots op en het was tenslotte zijn eerste keer .....

Photo 2 is from 03-04-2021 with a 11 kg wheelbarrow.

Norman van Harte gefeliciteerd met je vangst.
* De foto is met toestemming van Norman geplaatst *

Niels has recently joined our association and accelerates as you can see in the photo. This is not the first big one, he said. They are all worth it and don't let themselves be caught just like that.....now the weather is nice and he had a little free time left. Reward gives hope....

Congratulations and welcome Niels to our association.

Theo Fermont, who has not been a member for very long, comes from a family with many fishermen, almost all of his brothers are like that. On 11-08-2020 he thought I'd go fishing, but it became a longer sitting in the sweltering sun. He started at 06:00 and stayed until 17:00 with a very good result this is one of them, unfortunately he caught 6 and 2 more big Carps came loose!

Congratulations to Theo van Harte with this catch.

Constant van Bommel has been a member of our association for over 2 weeks now. However, the fish he is holding in the photo has been caught before because after 20 years of not fishing he came to try with a Day ticket and had never actually fished for carp before.

Now Constant can be found "constantly" on the water and he even explains how and what with regard to the caught fish via his FB site.

Congratulations and welcome Constant to our association.

Theo van Tuinen is a well-known person, although he doesn't think so. Several times European and World champion in the "breeding" of birds. His second hobby is fishing, although we only see Theo when we see competitions, so again and he catches a winner....

After a period of bad times for me, the good times are finally here... at the pond.

What a great catch!! Weighted 11Kg. In the hope that it may still be a good year for all of us here.....

Frans van Deur is of course the Champion after catching this mega fish, but Marco Roumen showed him this....

When Marco was caught it was a bit intense and once on the side Marco was tired but satisfied.

Frans stated the following in his own message:

With the pole, nice fight. Fun to be with. The largest so far was 8.6 kg someone had a scale but this is very well over 10 kg. Unfortunately I was there alone and no scales but that will be my next release.

You have a beautiful pond I am happy to be able to fish here. Greetings French

Theo must have been proud to have caught this carp with the pole. Fished a lot is an appropriate statement for the status of Theo after this catch!!

Berend wrote the following text.......

Not a Winter photo but a Spring photo.

I've only been a member for 2 months and have been able to catch many beautiful fish. This one is in my top 3 for now.

Good luck Berend and may many more follow....

A day permit can also be worth weight. See here 9kg caught on a day permit by Mark Piepers, so there is another Potential member for our association.

Michael hasn't been a member of our association for very long, but he already has a decent status of caught carp on the Groene Bleek. He participated in the last competition of Carp Games 2018 and immediately put his signature there by collecting a weight of 37.4Kg.

Last Sunday 21-10-2018 he managed to land a Carp of no less than 8Kg and a very nice one too.

Good luck Michael and may many more follow....

It must have been a hell of a job for Mart who managed to land this carp with a fixed stick. If Mart reads this message, we hope that perhaps a message will follow from him about how it went......?

I spent 10 to 15 minutes on it and let it run its course. When I had him above water I had a problem my landing net was too small, luckily Piet Willems was near me, he came with his landing net and then it worked.

Congratulations on this almost French carp.