The Team

Simon Crow is arguably one of the country’s top anglers and has worked in the trade for over 25 years. The former Carp-Talk editor has spent years fishing short sessions between work, doing quick overnighters to catch some of the country’s finest Carp including the iconic Wood Common from Spitfire lake.

Greg has established himself as a well-respected angler nationwide with a UK PB of 60lb alongside an impressive album of other large desirable English carp! Following numerous successful seasons fishing some of the most famous southern circuit waters, including the Horton complex, The North Met Pit as well as Cleverley Mere, Greg was awarded carp angler of the year 2017/18 from Carp-Talk magazine!

Over the years Chris Lowe has caught carp from a number of different venues up and down the country from low-stock syndicate waters to highly stocked day ticket venues. During this time Chris has become one of the country’s most successful day ticket anglers, regularly fishing venues such as Bluebell and Linear Fisheries.

Avid’s brand manager Anthony Molyneux has worked within the tackle trade for a number of years now. Originally starting in the trade as an Assistant manager of a popular UK tackle shop, Ant has progressed to now working as the Brand manager for Avid Carp. Having an extremely busy occupation means that Ant’s time is limited.

Avid’s product developer Tom Forrester has established himself as a well-respected angler within the midlands. With a wealth of knowledge of carp taken from his time spent working on popular fisheries within the midlands, Tom has taken this and applied it to his own personal angling, having success on a number of well-known UK day ticket waters and across the channel on lakes such as Rainbow and Lac De Saint Cassien in the South of France.

Avid’s Media and Marketing Coordinator Sam James regularly spends most of his time behind the lens visiting different venues up and down the country documenting fishing sessions and creating promotional content for new Avid products. Over the years Sam has spent the majority of his personal time fishing local venues in the North-West and the Midlands. Having an extremely busy work life, his personal fishing is limited.

Rotterdam based angler Ricardo Koster works at our European HQ in Holland as our European customer service advisor. During his personal time Ricardo visits a number of different venues from small canals, park lakes to large open windswept pits where he has enjoyed success over the years. Ricardo has years of experience of fishing venues all around holland.

Based in the northern German city of Lemgo, Matthias has years of experience fishing a range of different German waters from Large public venues, rivers and small intimate club waters. Working as Avid’s German content creator, Matthias often spends his time travelling around Germany visiting our German sponsored anglers gathering content for our social media platforms.