Europe’s Biggest and Best Carp Fishing Show

Do you love carp fishing? Are you a beginner or an expert? Are you a static carp angler or do you prefer to be mobile? Fishing on the bottom, float or floater fishing? For every type of carp angler, the 29th edition of Europe’s number one carp show is the place to be.

Our last show in January 2024 had more than 150 major carp fishing brands showing their latest products, often for the first time anywhere. You will find everything that you need to help you catch carp. You will be able to see, feel and test the best products from the top manufacturers of carp fishing tackle. This is the only annual carp fishing show in the world where all the latest products from the best names are to be found under one roof for 2 days each year. From rods and reels to end tackle and bait, bite indicators, bivvies, bedchairs, clothing, bait boats and drones, you will find it all (and we mean all) at Carp Den Bosch 2025.

Our new home in Den Bosch

After 24 shows in the IJsselhallen-Zwolle, we had outgrown the venue and in January 2023, we successfully moved Europe’s Biggest and Best Carp Show to a new home in the Brabanthallen in ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

‘s-Hertogenbosch is better known to the Dutch as ‘Den Bosch’ and is the capital of the Dutch Province of North Brabant. The show is now known as Carp Den Bosch to reflect this and is easier to say as well!

The Brabanthallen, with its’ modern and recently refurbished halls has now played host to Carp Den Bosch for two years and has many benefits for both the exhibitors and our visitors. The 24,000 m² of exhibition space, which is 4,000 m² more than we had at our previous location, has meant that we could make the paths wider, the stands bigger and give you, the visitors, the space to visit every stand without having to queue. We still have room for expansion, as the Brabanthallen has up to 55,000 m² if we need it!

January 18 & 19, 2025

As ever, Carp Den Bosch 2025 will be held early in the year so that you can see all that is new and get your shopping done or your holiday booked before your first session of the season.

In 2025 the show will be held over two days, with extended opening hours to give you more time to visit all the stands. The doors to Carp Den Bosch 2025 will open on Saturday 18 January 2025 from 09:00 to 19:00 and Sunday 19 January 2025 from 09:00 until 17:00.

28 years and still going…

The ‘Carp’ show was first held in 1995 in Houten, we moved to the IJsselhallen-Zwolle in 1997 where we held ‘Carp Zwolle’ for the first of 24 consecutive years. Since 2023 we have had a new home in the Brabanthallen, Den Bosch. 2025 will be the 29th time that we have ‘kicked off’ the carp fishing season. This is something of which we are extremely proud. By concentrating purely on carp fishing and carp anglers, the show has steadily grown to the mega-event it has become today.

No other Carp-only event can match the size or terrific atmosphere of Carp Den Bosch. No other show is as well-known across the World as ours – the 2024 show received more than 16,500 visitors from 29 different countries. Visitors from America to Romania and from Norway to Italy prove that!

24.000 m² of carp pleasure

In the Brabanthallen, we have the use of more than 24,000 m². This is 4,000 m² more space than we had in Zwolle. This gives us the chance to make the paths wider than before and gives stand holders the opportunity to have larger stands than previously. It also gives us the ability to reduce the number of stands that were on the waiting list.