Ali Hamidi, Neil Spooner and Tom Dove's mission to track down the world's largest carp takes them to Slovenia, visiting a remote lake full of submerged trees and a park lake that produced the country's record catch of almost 80lb.

Ali Hamidi, Tom Dove and Neil Spooner head to Italy and travel to a lake in the hills near Bologna, where they have just two days to catch a whopper. Then it is off for the main event at a large water called Viverone, not far from the Alps, where they go up against fish with a reputation for outwitting anglers.

Ali Hamidi, Neil Spooner and Tom Dove head to Lac de Saint-Cassien, France, where anglers have been travelling to since the 1980s in search of the monsters that live in its depths.