I had this great shot sent over in the week from midlands specialist angler Russ Guise with a short mobile tex accompanying the pic.....

Great message Russ and great photo from a January frosty morning, we want to see the 29lber you snared! send it over! :)

The monkey climber mag is out now full of big old Carp from all over Europe. Some of the photos... well actually most of the photos in the mag are stunning. proper Old Skool feel to the mag with stunning wild expanse backdrops and big European Carp that are from the land of the giants.....  

I got this cartoon sketch off Ray Best of uk carp angler / uk match angler website. Rays had a set of mk1 compacts off me to review and do some coverage on for his websites. Ray  didn't say he was sending me the photo I just saw it attached to his email! so I thought i`ll have that and stick it up on the ecu web pages for lads to have a chuckle at. now I finally know what's happening in my swim! lol

The Rod Risers are now available for anglers that fish with their tips skywards then these are the kiddies. I've kept the price as low as possible, but unfortunately I cant give them away as originally planned as some lads wanted 20 pairs off me a time! Only available to purchase through the website.

Craig Middleton recently sent me in a few pics of his successes and his new mk1 compacts sitting on his set up. I must admit the all red sets do look good alongside those daiwa Cast’izm 25 QDA reels. just a nice all round set up. And by judging by Craig's photos he can certainly get amongst the biggies aswel. Craig originally wanted `all purples` off me, but a little chat and discovering he had red tip whippings on his rods and then he mentioned he had these reels with red spool lips it just had to be the `all reds` going out to him!

Dean Marshall of 1d bait developments  has had a big old Kent common recently. just look at the colours of this old ancient carp. I bet this brute has seen every rig and bait that's out there. As  Kent is one of those famous old counties that's been a melting pot of carp fishing progression and formulation spanning over many decades.  a fine old county, producing some stunning old carp and many many prolific big carp hunters come through the ranks in this region of our old England. in fact its one of the draws that's got me doing my own fishing in this county and over the next couple of years I want to dabble more on a few waters that reside in this county. the only details I got off dean was that as soon as he`d taken a quick lucky snap of his set up on the day, one of the rods melted off resulting in this beauty!. well done Dean beautiful old Kent carp that we`d all like to catch i`m sure.

West Midlands specialist angler Bill Woodwards been having some great action between busy work shifts. Bills definitely mr consistent when it comes to getting action when its scratching time and nothings coming out. Bills been on the new bait from dna baits for a few months now and his catches have been outstanding. all I  know its called `the switch` and I managed after a little arm twisting get myself a batch to try out for my own fishing.
I believe the bait is due out this march so keep alook out for it.

Sebastian Treinat sent me in a shot of a lovely old german carp a couple of weeks back that I thought it would be worth sharing. In fact I've got a lot of photos I will try to upload over this next week that due to work overload I've not managed to post up. seb takes some cracking angling photos and alongside his angling abilities hes a keen photographer also. when I receive photos from seb theres always some that he takes from some weird view point or angle that just make a nice shot. the info I got on the capture was that between sebs busy work schedule making bait for his german bait company (hz-bait) he managed to wrangle a few hours on a short day session on a small pool he knows. Well a few hours later Sebs holding in his arms a lovely old warrior that  looks like a proper  chunk. Excellent angling Seb job done! :)

I hope everyone gets a stonking big old carp this coming year, that makes your smiles and dreams for many years. everyday carp fishing is memories in the future we will all hold onto, wishing everyone health and good carpy fortune this coming year.

2016s going to be a year full of surprises for ecu and customers that look at my label with interest and what's around the corner.
everything is designed by myself and that does mean things can be slow in being released, but I want things to be perfect and top notch.
new ecu alarm hanger pouches will be out at the end of February, I think they'll be the best on the market. in  design, stitching and materials, I've really nailed the look, but I`ll let you decide, not too long to wait for them.
of course in dpm cordura is my chosen material im making them up in.
The `Rod Risers` should be on the website this week. postage will be around £5.00 for a set of 3 or 4 pairs and they're for all existing customers who have the mk1 compacts. what's special about them...... well they enable you to fish your rods in a near vertical angle pointing skywards, and you maintain perfect line lay over the roller. great for river fishing and euro continental style fishing.

I've also been approached by a  very well known uk rod builder to go into collaboration on some custom rod builds. so this is a new venture im undertaking. I've sat on some rod designs for a long time, now ill have the platform to get my ideas out there. 3 rods are planned, all are stunning and you really will find it hard to choose between the three. im excited to see the finished end products as they are stunners. very limited numbers as they're time consuming to build and very expensive components and carbons were using to produce top end rods to give anglers serious choice.

2016 will see me develop also more dpm luggage. this is something im interested in, as always it comes from wanting to have firstly certain tackle items for my own fishing, then I work on their development. its that simple. if I don't like a product or don't need a product I wont make it. everything I design is from experience and my own personal preferences and choices.

The alarms..... 1st June 2015 saw the release of the much awaited mk1 compacts, and they were a breath of fresh air for many many anglers waiting on these buzzers. in fact some lads had known of their development spanning back 3 yrs previous. so you can imagine that wait was tortuous! well you'll see another new alarm being released this summer 2016 to add to the line up and possibly a third alarm back end of the summer.
I wont give too much away, but rest assured the next alarm is another top end alarm with a lot of surprises on it. I hope it causes plenty of talk and controversy, I wouldn't have it any other way! happy angling, thanks to all the old skool anglers that relentlessly follow my label and wait eagerly for the next new products to be released.

lets have a good year ahead, I guarantee itl be interesting to say the least....;)