'Timbers' is a talented weekend angler, who angles for a variety of species throughout the year.
BEV CLIFFORD
YEAR BORN: 1984
OCCUPATION: Publishing & Events
UK PB MIRROR: 31lb 8oz
UK PB COMMON: 37lb 14oz
FAVOURITE WATER: Bundy’s Pit
AVERAGE LENGTH OF SESSION: One, or if I’m lucky, two nights!
Having Kevin Clifford for a dad, who was once hailed as ‘Carp King of the North’, carp fishing is in Bev’s blood. She grew up in a house with fishing books, magazines and stuffed fish everywhere. When she was 10 years old her father, along with Tim Paisley and Chris Ball, started up Carp-Talk magazine – shortly afterwards she started working in the office, around going to school. It took another 10 years before she began carp fishing herself, but ever since, she’s enjoyed fishing all over the UK and abroad for carp (and other freshwater species too!). Bev doesn’t get to fish for herself as much as she would like, due to work commitments, but when she does, she likes it to be somewhere peaceful and away from the crowds.
Alongside working in the industry, Bev is also heavily involved with the Ladies Carp Team England and also runs the Ladies Carp Academy, which organises events for female anglers wanting to improve their carp fishing skills or get started in the sport. To be able to promote and share her passion and hobby to encourage more female anglers onto the bank is very important to her.
Meet the Team
Joe Atkinson, known around the big-fish circuit waters in Essex, now opts to angle on the quiet lakes where the fish are not as big, but just as beautiful.
Liam Duncan, an angler who goes quietly about his business both on and off the beaten track, who fishes mainly weekend sessions with a busy work life.
With a host of captures from a range of demanding waters, Mitch Hammonds leaves no stone unturned in his search for the carp he desires.
Come rain or snow, Adam Smith has spent the last few years chasing some of the most breathtakingly beautiful carp in Oxfordshire.
Scott Karabowicz, and his meticulous and precise approach to all he does has served him well on those notorious, historic and pressured lakes.
Myles Gibson, one of the country’s best up and coming big-fish anglers and has travelled the country in search of some of the biggest and best-looking carp.
Si Bater, an angler with a natural born hunters instinct. Passionate, focused and driven, he has an impressive portfolio of captures from around the country.
Fishing is a huge part of Marcus Howarth and there isn’t a day goes by that he doesn’t think about it. It's not just carp either, but chub and barbel too.
Oz Holness is a former British record carp holder with drive and passion that takes him across the country, in pursuit of the finest carp in the land.
Ben Hamiliton, is a careful and ever consistent angler, whom builds his chances and opportunities around his work life with regular quick overnighters.