Yes its true we have a new world record carp, the beast was caught by Ambrose Smith @ 99lb. The well known mirror carp called 'The Scar' was caught from Luke Moffatt's Les Graviers near Dijon in France, breaking the previous world record of 94lb from Rainbow Lake near Bordeaux.

Allthough the capture is a new world record, it still isn't clear if this will be acknowledged as the official new world record carp. In January a 94lb mirror was caught from French fishery Rainbow Lake, breaking the previous world record of 91lb held by The Scar from Les Graviers.

Ambrose used a bottom bait, balanced out with a Christmas Cracker pop-up and presented on a 3oz running lead set-up made from 25lb ESP Sinklink and a size 8 Korda Wide Gape hook.