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Mark Bartlett

Mark Bartlett

Mark Bartlett ("Big Carp Machine") is an English carp angler, England international competitor, DNA Baits consultant, and owner of Acorn Fishery.

Mar 3, 2026

27:37
right yeah well fair play so when you just go back to all these massive trips that you used to go on and visit in all these countries is there one that sort of stands out the most for you your fondest memory of these sort of adventures you used to go on
27:53
Yeah, I'd probably say Romania, fishing like Lake Reduta, for me, that was just seeing those big carp at such an early age, I was just like...
28:04
Mind blown.
28:05
This is a bit of me, this is what I want to do.
28:06
And, you know, just... yeah yeah special like i remember yeah just loads of little things i remember fishing with pictures actually and we were fishing so the original like world record which was 80 odd pound got caught from this particular swim and you had to fish like 430 meters across so me and pictures are gone And I'm like, right, sound, you're going to put the rods out.
28:31
He's like, what do you mean? I said, you put the rods out.
28:33
He's like, I can't row a boat.

26 MINS LATER

54:25
Here comes the cameras...
DeanHOST
15:44
Is that something you thought about?
15:46
with like fish like especially big fish like all fish you could go to any lakes and like my lake is it's four acres i've got 400 fish in there there's a couple of fish in there you'll be lucky to see them once every 18 months yet you can walk around and you know the others by name literally you see them like they're still dry where the last boat to put them back like you know but it is like that You know, he's not even downloaded his SD card in his back out.
16:18
And, but there's also, yeah.
16:22
And then you have other fish that are creatures of habit, like especially sort of, and just understanding what fish you're fishing for, especially when it comes to big fish is probably what I would consider the most important thing and working it out as in, Because you could go to a lake, like, and fish.
16:42
Sometimes you'd fish to what you see.
16:44
You see fish show.
16:46
And I use farriers as an example.

38 MINS LATER

54:50
And then once you've done that, then you catch... 85 carp out of farriers in two weeks.

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