SPONSORED ANGLER TEAM

Gardner has built up quite a team of sponsored top anglers to include some of the best in the business – experts in both Carp and Specimen Coarse fishing who play a vital role during all stages of product development, field testing and promotion of the Gardner range. Their knowledge and experience is invaluable to us in what we do and the feedback we get from these past masters is quite literally gold dust. So this page is dedicated to the team. We would like to take this opportunity to thank and praise them for the good work they have done and for their loyalty to Gardner.

None of these anglers are paid consultants and as such have chosen to use and promote our tackle simply because it is the best available. Some are already extremely well known faces, whilst others have generally remained a bit ‘underground’, until now…


Calum Kletta

Russ Evans

Russ has over 40 years experience in angling with 30 years of that time spent in the match fishing scene with plenty of success in team and individual events.

 


Calum Kletta

CALUM KLETTA

Calum started fishing roughly 5 years ago, catching whatever came along on the local lakes owned by his local club. However he was soon drawn to catching bigger fish, and started to target carp…

 


Tony Welch

TONY WELCH

In recent years he has fished Argal Reservoir. A large, deep, challenging water, but rewarding when it all comes good. This lake that boasts several 30 plus Common Carp, and is where he caught his largest specimen at over 38lb…

 


Alan Stagg

ALAN STAGG

An up and coming angling star. Alan has a reputation for catching BIG fish from all the local waters; Barbel, Bream, Grass Carp, Roach, Eels… the list is seemingly endless, and growing!…

 


Barry O'Connor

BARRY O’CONNOR

Barry and Ben are a well know father and son team that in recent years have carved a name for themselves in Carp fishing with some truly phenomenal angling displays during BCAC and other competitions…

 


Ben O'Connor

BEN O’CONNOR

Barry and Ben are a well know father and son team that in recent years have carved a name for themselves in Carp fishing with some truly phenomenal angling displays during BCAC and other competitions…

 


Chris Felton

CHRIS FELTON

Chris Felton is a highly motivated dedicated big fish specialist who is very much a thinking angler. Constantly questioning ‘why’ to everything – from blanking/catching, all aspects of rigs, baits…

 


Dan Chart

DANIEL CHART

During my 25 years fishing for carp I have had the  privilege of fishing waters such as Yateley, Horton,  Kingsmead…

 


Andy Loble

ANDY LOBLE

After many years of being told to keep his work life and hobbies separate Andy decided to go against the grain and is now working around his hobby and first love – fishing…

 


Nigel Hodgson

NIGEL HODGSON

Nigel ‘Monki’ Hodgson is both a successful angler, and a keen angling writer, who has had big fish from hard venues on both sides of the North-South divide…

 


Lewis Read

LEWIS READ

What can we say? His technical knowledge in tackle production and valuable big fish catching skills makes Lewis an invaluable member of the Gardner team…

 


Mike Willmott

MIKE WILLMOTT

When it comes to ‘big names’ within carp fishing, they don’t get much bigger than Mike Willmott. Apart from being a superb ambassador to our sport…

 


Rick Golder

RICK GOLDER

Rick is simply a great big fish angler. A truly seasoned big Carp angler with a great history of catching fish from a wide variety of venues…

 


Phil Kingsbury

PHIL KINGSBURY

Phil is one part of the formidable duo that is the famous Kingsbury Brothers. Phil absolutely hauled on Horton in 2006 simply obliterating…

 


Pete Kingsbury

PETE KINGSBURY

The other dynamic Kingsbury! Pete also catches a great many BIG fish, and has a great track record of banking target fish from a number of difficult venues…

 


Neil Wayte

NEIL WAYTE

An all round specimen hunter whose larger than life captures (and personality!) are well known. A regular contributor to the angling press…

 


Martin Lewis

MARTIN LEWIS

Martin is an all round, self taught specimen angler and for no particular reason we call him ‘Smarts’. With big fish captures of many species…

 


Sam Meeuwissen

SAM MEUWISSEN

Sam is a versatile all round angler and is at home either trotting maggots on his local intimate streams as he is boating baits out for carp…

 


Rich Adams

RICH ADAMS

I have been very fortunate to fish a well maintained, non profit making syndicate with a good head of big carp and this is where I have concentrated…

 


Robbie Fielding

ROBBIE FIELDING

Robbie’s been fishing for over 25 years and still at it. One of his passions in carp fishing is uncaught carp from big water systems in Spain…

 


Luke Church

LUKE CHURCH

Luke has been fishing for over 10 years, he started out fishing for smaller species such as Roach, Rudd and Perch and moved onto Carp fishing…

 


Wayne Rees

WAYNE REES

Wayne has been fishing for around 10 years with a progression from smaller course species to carp at present. Wayne believes that the gradual progression has proved well…

 


Lee Wagner

LEE WAGNER

Lee has been fishing since a very young age. He used to get dragged around by his old man everywhere, starting off with float fishing…

 


Mark Wosencroft

MARK WOSENCROFT

I have been carp fishing for over 30 years and have targeted easy waters as well as inland seas with a low stock of carp…

 


Tim Childs

TIM CHILDS

Tim is from the north west of England and has been a carp angler for 25 years. During this time he has built up a wealth of experience…

 


Paul Hatton

Paul Hatton

Paul has been a dedicated carp angler for over 17 years now. Along the way he has fished for and caught some of the very best ‘original’ carp living in his local Cheshire waters…