Super Sussex carp specialist Derek Rance has fished for three successive and successful years on the Nutrabaits Yateley complex where he netted both Bazil and Heather. This season he moved onto Wraysbury One and carried on where he left off, with a string of huge carp to his credit. 
Derek, deaf and dumb following a diving accident, already had six carp over 40lb notched up then saw his first action on the 120 acre Wraysbury One water last week with no less than five takes in 28 hours from the Turfs swim, adjacent to the old National Westminster Sailing Club site.
Derek converted three of the runs, and in so doing upped his tally of forties to eight with the capture of both Mary and Mary’s Mate.
Derek fished a 14mm Nutrabaits Big Fish Mix bottom bait flavoured with cranberry at range over a big bed of hemp to take the fish.
The first giant to hit the net was Mary’s Mate at 43lb 12oz, just 4oz down on her top weight of 44lb recorded by Jim Shelley in July.
The second biggie was a common of 30lb 10oz, thought to be the common known as Floppy Tail.
Bringing up the rear was big gun Mary herself, caught at 10:30am, at a weight of 51lb 12oz.
Mary is still well down on her record breaking top weight of 56lb 6oz but as you can see from the picture she looks good on it.
Derek beats his handicap by relying on specially adapted vibrating buzzers to register his takes. He is now one of just a handful of carp anglers who can claim to have caught eight British carp over 40lb.
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