Tom Dove is Korda's head of product development and stars with Ali Hamidi and Neil Spooner on ITV4's Monster Carp series. In 2005, he won the British Young Carp Angling Championships, which lead to a career in carp fishing. In his early teens, Tom began fishing on the famous Walthamstow complex in East London, his carp fishing learning ground. Following this, he fished Essex big fish water, The Essex Manor. It was here that he caught his present personal best carp known as, The Amphibian.