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| August 24th 2008 |
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| Steve lands two 50's in 12 hours! |
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| Venture's Steve Briggs recently spent a week on the Badgers Holt lake at Serreire in France where despite the fish having recently spawned and constant rain throughout the trip, he ended up with some good results. During the seven days Steve landed a total of thirteen carp with all but two of them weighing over 30lbs. The highlight of the week though, was when he banked two fish over 50lb in the space of 12 hours. All the fish were landed using Venture VXR-1 rods along with basic semi-fixed rigs with 20mm Solar Club Mix hook baits and smaller Club Mix freebies and Solar pellets. |
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| July 22nd 2008 |
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| Nutsey Charity Challenge - a big success! |
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| The Nutsey Charity Challenge, organised by Paul and Mandy Hunt, took place over the 18th and 19th July at Nutsey Lake in Hampshire. Venture's Steve Briggs and Solar's Martin Locke were in attendance and both companies provided gear for the fund-raising raffle. The weekend was a huge success with plenty of people turning up and parting with their cash. A total of £1600 was raised for the Piam Brown childrens ward which relies on donations to keep their invaluable work going. A bigger event is planned for next year and details will be announced here nearer the time. |
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| July 22nd 2008 |
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| Meik's magic result at Cassien |
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| Venture consultant, Meik Pyka has to be rated as one of the most successful Cassien anglers of all-time after yet another fantastic result at the southern-French lake. Meik found the West Arm too busy so opted for the South Arm and must be glad that he did! Meik told us: "To cut a long story short I had the session of a lifetime and I topped both my common and mirror PB's! In nine days I banked no less than seven carp between 15kg and 19kg, mirrors of 20kg, 22kg and 23.3kg, the big Chardonnay Common at 26kg and the monstrous big mirror, Bernadette at 30.2kg!" Another fantastic result for the very-consistent big-fish man from Germany. |
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| July 16th 2008 |
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| A great week for the Croatian Venture team |
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| July saw Croatian angler Kresimir Kuri travel to Sumbar Lake with his wife Maria, nine-month-old son Ivan and good-friend Denis. Although the air and water temperatures were very hot, the Venture quartet were always able to find feeding fish! In all they landed 58 carp between 3kg and 22kg. Kresimir commented that in total they used 85kg of bait which had to be put out with either catapult or bait rockets and it took him almost a week to recover - but the result made it more than worthwhile. |
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| July 2nd 2008 |
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| Cotswold open day re-scheduled |
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| Rob Hughes and Steve Briggs were due to be at Cotswold Angling Centre on the 28th June but due to unforseen circumstances that date had to be cancelled. The good news is that the open day has now been re-scheduled to take place on Saturday 30th August. So why not come down and have a chat with the boys and checkout the Venture range - all are welcome! |
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| June 17th 2008 |
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| Cassien 2-Man bivvy review on Cemex forum |
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| At Venture we always take a very keen interest in any feedback that comes our way on products and whilst flicking through the forums we came across a review on the Cassien 2-Man bivvy on the Cemex Angling forum. It's a very honest and un-biased review, so for anyone thinking about purchasing a big bivvy in the near future, why not have a look at the 'latest articles and catch reports' page at: www.cemexangling.co.uk and have a read for yourselves. |
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| June 11th 2008 |
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| Two PB's in a week for Steve Briggs |
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After losing a very good fish at the net at the start of his latest trip to Rainbow Lake, Venture's Steve Briggs thought he was in for a bad week, but he turned things around by landing two massive personal best mirrors. The first came on Sunday afternoon just three hours after losing the first fish and weighed in at 68lb 8oz. Things were then a little quiet until Thursday 5th June when at 5am Steve latched in to an even bigger fish of 70lb 8oz! These were followed by other mirrors of 31lb, 41lb 4oz, 47lb 4oz and 49lb 10oz. All the fish were caught by using double 18mm Solar Club Mix hook baits attached to size 4 Solar Stronghold long shank hooks and they were landed on Venture VXR-1 rods.
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| June 11th 2008 |
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| Personal milestone for Crowy |
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| This 30lb 4oz mirror known as Clarence was landed by Venture's Simon Crow during a day's surface fishing at the Selby syndicate in North Yorkshire, England. The long mirror - one of the original Three Lakes fish - is Crowy's first UK thirty off the top, beating his previous UK best of 28lb from Motorway Pond. Here's what he told us: "Although I've landed bigger off the top from overseas, I've wanted a thirty off the top from a home water. I spent four hours patiently feeding the fish up, selecting the biggest of the bunch when it moved in. It fought really well, taking me twenty minutes to land, mostly under the rod tip." Crowy put his faith in an artificial tiger nut soaked in Solar's Dairy Cream and fished to open water at twenty yards range where he baited with Chum Mixer dog biscuits. Hookbaits were offered on size 4 Solar X-Wide Gape hooks and 15lb main line. |
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| May 27th 2008 |
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| Razorback - Terry Hearn's comment. |
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| Here at Venture we've always been very proud of the Razorback shelter. We were the original designers of this lightweight style of bivvy and it's always good to get positive feedback from the people who have used one - especially when it comes from one of the best anglers in the business - Terry Hearn. When asked what he thought of the Razorback, his reply was: "The Razorback is the nuts! Nice and light, and easy to set up. I love it!" We couldn't agree more! Thanks for that Tel! |
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| May 22nd 2008 |
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| Venture open days |
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| Open days with the Venture team at various shops around Europe have proved to be a big hit with the carp angling public, so the team are pleased to announce that we will be visiting two more shops in the near future. Fosters of Birmingham will have Jon 'Shoes' Jones in attendance on the 27th and 28th June, while Rob Hughes and Steve Briggs will be at Cotswold Angling Centre in Swindon on the 28th June. Come along and have a chat with the Venture guys, it's your chance to see our range of gear - so dont miss out! |
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| May 15th 2008 |
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| Venture success in Romania |
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| Fishing is a major sport in Romania and carp fishing is the fastest growing sector. Some of the Venture team recently visited the huge four-day fishing festival in Bucharest in the company of the Senzor team who have the best carp match team in the country and also a big shop in Bucharest. After the show both teams took part in a friendly carp match on the stunning Tancabesti Lake and several good fish up to 18.9kg were landed. The atmosphere was so friendly that the outcome was decided as a draw and all agreed that the whole week was a great success! |
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| May 7th 2008 |
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| Carp Killers on film! |
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| The German carp angling team known as the 'Carp Killers' which includes VentureCarp consultant Meik Pyka have just released a new DVD covering their very successful trip to the Bin El Quidane reservoir in Morocco. The DVD is produced by Meik Pyka and Tim Roski and has been described as: "A very cool, atmospheric film, with lots of big fish!" The DVD can be yours for 19.95 Euros, to order simply log on to: marokkodvd@gmx.de to obtain a copy. |
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| April 30th 2008 |
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| Big Carp for VentureCarp team |
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VentureCarp's Rob Hughes and Steve Briggs recently met up with Big Carp magazine editor Rob Maylin to show and talk through some of the new items being added to the VentureCarp range in 2008. Rob Maylin has put together a substantial feature that will be in the next issue due out on Tuesday 6th May. Rob was impressed by all that he saw so grab a copy of Big Carp to see it all for yourselves!
Steve Briggs and Rob Hughes will also be across in Romania from the 8th to 15th May to attend the main carp show for the first three days and then to fish for a day or two on one of Romania's prolific waters. |
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| April 11th 2008 |
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| Venture in the north |
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| Venture have teamed up with top northern tackle shop Eric's Angling Centre to hold an open day at their Leeds based shop on the 15th May 2008. The day will see Venture's Simon Crow and former world record holder Graham Slaughter on hand to talk customers through the new range of gear from 3pm onwards. Thursday is a late night opening for the shop with the doors closing at 8pm. This is your chance to check out the new Venturis V1 & V2 rods as well as see forthcoming additions to the best-selling Razorback on display. For further information contact Eric's Angling Centre on 001132646883 or visit: www.britnett-carver.co.uk/ericsangling/ |
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| April 2nd 2008 |
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| Razorback + Four |
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| Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and it would appear that we started quite a trend when we first released the Razorback bivvy in 2007. Not wishing to sit back and rest on our laurels, the design team have worked tirelessly to come up with what we believe is a superb new version in the Razorback + Four. As the name suggest the Razorback + Four is built around our own familiar, innovative design ? but we?ve added an extra pole! The extended front provides more protection from the elements and it also comes with a full set of adjustable tension bars. For anglers this means more room, more stability and more comfort ? the best just got even better. |
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