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BRAND AMBASSADOR G I L B E R T F O X C R O F T Our new Brand Ambassador Gilbert Foxcroft is well-known in fishing circles, not only as an avid (and hugely successful) Carp angler, but also in his role as representative for The King Fisher (Fishing Tackle Manufacturer and Distributor) in Durban, where he is responsible for Sales, Marketing and Product development. He covers the area from Free State to Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West. He is also Brand Ambassador for several fishing tackle brands and visits around 700 Tackle shops in South Africa. Gilbert has just become the proud owner of a Lowrance Elite 9-Ti² and he is particularly excited about this “powerful unit, it’s compact size, very high resolution considering the screen size, the transducer which gives amazingly detailed views and specific areas can be targeted for revisiting.” He has been fishing since he was six years old and grew up in Ladysmith in KwaZulu Natal, where he and his dad spent many hours “doing what we loved best” at Spioenkop and Woodstock dams. After he matriculated in 1989, he went to RAU university in Pretoria to study for a BA Humanities. 1992 marked the start of his Carp fishing career, after he met Peter Bryant and other well-known Carp anglers like Simon Crow, Rob Hughes, Steve Briggs, John ‘Shoes’ Jones, Frank Warwick and Tim Paisley to mention a few.