Deep in France, with only his own whims to satisfy, JT wraps from a busy 150-acre pit to search for solace at an awe-inspiring French river! Bathers watch on as John does battle with the carp and barbel that live in this crazy, boulder-strewn environment! In true pioneering fashion, we really don...

John returns to the big gravel pit featured in the April 2013 episode of Drive & Survive, in the hope of a huge carp. The stocked fish had now grown to enormous sizes, with some now exceeding 60lb, but with nearly 900 acres of water to roam, it wasn’t going to be easy locating them.

This movie spans two summer holidays during 2018 and 2019, where John visits the huge coastal lakes of South West France. At around 12,000 acres in size, the lake in focus is a true inland ocean, which has one of the lowest stocks, per acre, in the whole of France. These lakes are not for the fai...

Target hunting isn't quite so straight forward when you’re trying to catch a carp that can move between locks, and furthermore, may not even still be alive. John reflects on the capture of a huge carp from a quiet canal system in central France.

This film was made during a family holiday in between the covid lockdowns, where John squeezed a few early morning sessions in on the local pits and a shallow river close to the holiday villa.

During September 2020, John took the long drive down to the Pyrenees to sample some barrage carp fishing, in wonderful surroundings, a true adventure!

In this film, John returns to a pressured 'days only' public water on the European circuit for his first proper session on the lake since 2006. Some of the original fish still remained and had grown to huge sizes, in addition to that were also younger stock fish that were achieving incredible gro...

This trip covers a family holiday to the South West France, with a 60lb target fish in mind. Across a three-week period I explore several lakes, ranging from 30 to 2000 acres. As you can imagine, bouncing a family holiday with the fishing, this trip has tales of both success and failure.