As a family, we have been breeding carp since 1975, when we built the first commercial carp farm in the UK at our home in Essex—Fishers Green Farm, near Waltham Abbey on the River Lea. In those early years, we produced hundreds of thousands of carp, which were supplied to the Thames Valley Water Authority and stocked into fisheries across the UK over the following seven years.

During this time, we developed our own unique bloodline by crossing mirror carp imported from Belgium with Magoi carp from Japan. This created an exceptional strain of carp, which we continue to refine and breed from today.

The fish we bred in those early years were also the first carp stocked into Homersfield Lake in 1980, with around 3,000 carp introduced, ranging from 4lbs to 36lbs. Today, the lake holds a substantial head of carp, including fish naturally bred on site that now reach up to 60lbs.