CARP WORLD THE SWEDISH CARP SOCIETY
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Carp fishing is still spreading
across Poland, but there are still many undiscovered wild
Well stocked .. Birger Holmqvist with a 10 year old lovely mirror carp from one of our many stocking projects (above) and a real stunner as a part of the future of carp fishing in Sweden
Promoting modern carp fishing in Sweden
The Swedish Carp Society was formed in March 2000 to become the national interest organization for carp fishers in Sweden. The main purpose of the orga-nization
is to promote modern carp fishing through increased knowledge and awareness of the sport and to unify carp fishers’ interests in Sweden. With around 250 members who learn from each others’ fishing experiences, also of-fering a unique source of information for young and novice carp fishers. The Swedish carp society also produces a carp fishing journal which is released three times a year where all articles are authored by members. The carp society organizes a national
carp fishing competition called ‘The Swed-ish Carp Challenge (SCC)’. All income from sales and entry fees go directly to the promotion of Swedish carp fishing. During the last couple of the years the winning team(s) have also won the entry fee to the World Carp Classic (WCC) tournament. The Swedish carp society is proud to announce that it is entering two Swedish teams in the WCC 2015. One major project for the Swedish carp
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society is to create inventories of known carp waters and also to create new carp fisheries. The organization also works extensively with stocking existing carp lakes to reinforce and rejuvenate older carp stocks. All stockings are performed in close collaboration with land owners, fisheries management areas, and county administrative boards responsible for stocking permits. The general rule for the Swedish carp society is to co-finance 50% of the costs
for purchasing carp in their stocking project. However, the co-financing rate can be as high as 100% depending on the proposed level of access to the fishery for carp society members. In more recent years, the society also covers costs for improving other forms of increased accessibility to fishing, like clearings of ob-structive vegetation and construction of fishing piers and platforms. We have included a non-exhaustive
list of stocking projects in which the Swed-ish carp society has been involved throughout the years, starting in 2001. A total of over 2,500 carp have been stocked in a large number of lakes for national an-gling interests. The size of stocked carp has increased in recent years and stocking is nowadays more commonly focused on fewer, but larger specimens which are more unlikely to be killed by predatory fish.
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waters that may hold unknown giants...
Carp can be caught in nearly every Polish water, in fact the famous Galician carp originates in Poland. Modern carp angling started in the 90s
with the first anglers starting to use high protein based boilies. However, very few heard then about catch and release (C & R). In 1997, I wrote in the first Polish book about modern carp angling, which even now, has lost little of its topicality. The real carp boom only really started at the beginning of the current decade. In 2003, I established ‘Karp Max’; the
launch of a completely new magazine was one of the most important events in Polish carp fishing. Today carp angling is the fastest developing field in Polish angling. Tens of thousands of anglers are catching carp and the carp fishing bug. Most important is where to catch. In
Poland we have many different carp waters. They are: natural (glacial) lakes of different sizes, gravel pits, clay pits, small, medium and large man-made lakes, and also rivers. The majority of the venues belong to
Polish Angling Association. These waters have been stocked with carp for many years. Poland would be the richest country in Europe for carp if it were not for so much carp killing in previous years. Now a lot has changed, it still isn’t at all
easy locating or catching carp over 30 kg. For example, this year, there have only been two carp caught with weight above 30 kg. So, a carp of 20 kg is certainly a specimen for us. However, the fact that nowadays the vast
majority of anglers are practicing C&R and letting carp go is very important. Anyway, we have hundreds of wild
waters where old carp and stocks of carp are living, many of them have never been caught. These are the lakes that are still completely undiscovered, hiding carp and angling secrets. More and more commercial fisheries are
being created exclusively for carp anglers. For Polish carp anglers, catching on many different kinds of waters means they have great experience, and have the experience to deal with many different venues and
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