{"id":21365,"date":"2016-06-25T03:43:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T02:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=21365"},"modified":"2016-06-25T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T09:40:03","slug":"want-a-50lb-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/want-a-50lb-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Want a 50lb+ Common? Here’s Where To Find Them"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBig common carp are fewer and further between in comparison to their mirror counterparts. They’re also most anglers prized captures as the sheer length of a common carp in excess of 50lb is something quite special. We’ve rounded up some of our favourites from Angling Lines venues…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1. Caught at Villefond<\/a>, May ’16<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Villefond is well known for it’s big average weight of carp (last week’s anglers had 8 x 40’s, 6 x 30’s and just 2 x 20’s!) and 51lb common ‘Little John’ is no exception.<\/p>\n

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\n2. Caught at Jonchery<\/a> back in April ’13<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We don’t have all the details on this capture but it’d be a crime not to include it, this carp is truly stunning!<\/p>\n

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If only they all looked like this!<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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3.\u00a060lb, caught by Gaz at Old Oaks<\/a> in September ’15<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Great Fish, Great Lake, Great Owner!’\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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The group caught 1 x 60,3 x 50s, 14 x 40s, 11 x 30s, 3 x 20s and 2 x doubles that week.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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4. 54lb, caught at Brocard Small<\/a> back in April ’13<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are a couple of big beautiful common carp at Brocard Small, this one is our favourite though…<\/p>\n

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We’d have that grin on our face too<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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4. Steven Male with a 50lb ghost common, caught at Laroussi<\/a> in May ’15.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There are at least\u00a03 different\u00a050+\u00a0commons in Laroussi.<\/p>\n

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5. 54lb, caught by Robert Booth at Boux<\/a> in May ’14. \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

‘We had 22 fish including\u00a05 x50lb+ and\u00a06 x 40lb+. Third trip to Boux, won’t be our last.’<\/em><\/p>\n

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Robert Booth – 54lb<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n


\n6. Last but not least the current lake record at Lillypool<\/a>. Will caught this common in May ’16.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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52lb<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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To get more information on any of the venues above, find them here – <\/strong><\/span>Carp Fishing France<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big common carp are fewer and further between in comparison to their mirror counterparts. They’re also most anglers prized captures as the sheer length of a common carp in excess of 50lb is something quite special. We’ve rounded up some of our favourites from Angling Lines venues…   1. Caught at Villefond, May ’16 Villefond […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[925,1070,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monster-carp","category-beautiful-carp","category-carp-fishing-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}