Carp Fishing News began as a company producing fishing magazines from the angling roots of its directors - Chris Ball, Kevin Clifford and Tim Paisley who had carp fished long before they became involved in publishing angling magazines. Tim initially started by publishing the Carp Society's magazine, Carp Fisher, before moving on to his own magazine called Carpworld - the first carp fishing magazine available to the public. This was followed by Big Fish World and Specialist Angling World when Kevin came involved as the editor. In about 1994 Tim, Kevin and their friend Chris Ball decided to break the mould and bring out a carp fishing weekly magazine that would challenge the two weekly newspapers of Angling Times and Angler's Mail. This proved to be a considerable success and many other carp magazines, such as Crafty Carper, Total Carp and Advanced Carp Fishing followed in their wake.

Carp-Talk

Despite the angling magazine market now being saturated Carp-Talk is still the only weekly publication and dominates the carp fishing sector. In its early days it was a black & white magazine but soon became colour. With its unrivalled coverage of carp news, tackle reviews, and carp catches it is the only weekly that caters solely for carp anglers. Exclusive features by top specialist carp anglers, such as Simon Crow, Ken Townley, Ian Poole and Steve Briggs ensures that Carp-Talk has achieved the top angling spot in the magazine publishing world. It features carp fishing reports from around the world, not just the UK. It has achieved many exclusive news stories - world record and UK carp catches as well as being first to report on new carp tackle.

Coarse Angling Today

This monthly magazine covers all species of coarse fish, such as barbel, chub, roach, rudd, bream, tench, pike etc. The magazine's list of writers is unmatched, featuring famous modern anglers such as Stef Horak, Phil Smith, Pete Reading, Terry Lampard, Tony Miles, Neville Fickling, Bob Church, Dave Gaunt, Bill Rushmer, Duncan Charman and John Searl. It's a high-quality magazine, with its only competitors in this sector being Coarse Fisherman and Improve Your Coarse Fishing.

Pike & Predators

As its title suggests, Pike and Predators is aimed at anglers who prefer to fish for species such as pike, perch, zander and catfish - fish that eat other fish! Although the Pike Anglers Club has its own specialist magazine. Pike & Predators has the benefit of being the only angling magazine available to the public that is dedicated to species such as pike. It has many well-known and succesful predator anglers as its contributors, top anglers such as Neville Fickling, Mark Barrett, Mick Brown, James Holgate, Eric Edwards, Jon Neafcy, David McLachlan, Gord Burton, Gary Knowles, Jason Davis and Stephen Harper. It pike fishing content is popular amongst Scottish pikers and well as Irish pike anglers.

Xtra

This is the Carp Fishing News online magazine that supports its weekly paper magazine, Carp-Talk. It is published online on a weekly basis to over 7000 carp anglers. It is totally free, and has news features, reviews, articles, bloggs, competitions and catch reports.