Jack Faulkner I set myself a target for this year and that was to catch a 40lber from st Ives lagoon, there's plenty of them in here as well so you'd think it would be easy but after a very long spring of 40+ nights and fuck all going in my favour, 3 bream and a small double to my name I needed a break from the lake, it was becoming an obsession. So I started back again in autumn and on my second trip days after the full moon, 45 blank nights later, I got myself the target I was desperate for! Finally my first UK 40, and what a carp! "Tango" at 43lb 5!! The emotions and the buzz from the capture will stay with me forever! What a carp! What a complex