Name?
Stephan Nielsen

Age?
43 years

Where do you live?
Örebro

Nationality?
Danish

What do you do for a living? (Your job)
Tackle Shop Owner…..
Pop Up Tackle,
Sporting
& Attitude Baits

Do you have a website? If so, what is the address?
www.popuptackle.com
www.sporting.se
www.attitudebaits.com

What year did you start carp fishing?
Im not really sure around 20 years ago I guess.

What is your PB carp in Sweden?
14,120 gr… Snoken from Hagasjön

What is your PB carp outside Sweden?
30,1 kg from Lac de Curton Mirror
21,2kg common from Raduta

What is you favourite venue in Sweden?
Oj there are many nice places… Hagasjön, Tranesjön, Henrikstorp.

What is your favourite venue outside Sweden?
Lac de Curton, Raduta and all the Magic waters in the North of Italy

Who do you fish with the most. Or do you fish alone?
I fish with a lot of different people but the Most is Jonny “ Pop Up “ Sethson

What rods do you use at the moment?
Century NG. Century Armalite, Kevin Maddox Exocet.

What brand of bait do you use?
Energy, CC Moore and Solar.

Do you use Homemades or Shelf life baits?
Shelf Life ( cant complain about that )

If you could only use one flavour, which flavour would it be?
No doubt at all ….Magic Fruit all the way

What are your favourite particles?
No favourite … use mostly boilies

Are you a member of ‘Svenska Karp Klubben'?
Oh year isn’t everybody ?????

What is the best piece of carp fishing equipment you have ever bought?
There is many don’t fancy anyone especially

Do you fish for other species apart from carp?
Yes lots of different mostly Pike , Zander and Musky

If you could change something in Swedish carp fishing, what would it be?
I would like the people to be more nice to each other and stop moving carp around.

What is your most memorable moment in carp fishing?
Must be the the catch of the 30 kg fish from Lac de Curton and Jonny´s 27 kg common from Italy

What is your worst moment in carp fishing?
No doubt when I lost a really big common in Raduta… The day after I had the famous common Crinkle tail at 21,2 kg and It looked small compared to the one I lost… I will never forget that night

What is your funniest moment in carp fishing?
So many funny memories over the years But still the Italian 27kg that Jonny had made me smile.. A Lot.

Which carp fishing magazines do you read?
Carpworld, Carp Talk, Advanced Carp Fishing, Crafty Carper, International Carper,Carpolygy, VBK Magazine ( I get them from my friend Aljin Danau in Belgium) and some Italian Magazines.

Stephan "Dansken" Nielsen

Below are an amazing 7 carp over 20kg including Stephan's PB 30.1kg!!!