Informative Essay: Carp Angling

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Carp Angling
Have you ever thought to yourself "I wish I could go back in time knowing what I know now?" There would undoubtedly be things you would have done differently, chances you would have taken, and probably some you wouldn't have.

Think about this in your carp angling, how good would it have been to be the first to use sweetcorn like Chris Yates at Redmire, or the first on the hair rig like Len Middleton and Kevin Maddocks.

Well a few years ago I realised that a lot of what was 'new' in carp angling, had in fact simply been reinvented or even just repackaged, particularly with regards to some of the methods and baits being written about.

Particles, pellets, P.V.A. and the method, are a few examples of what are considered effective …show more content…

Fishing there had a number of advantages, firstly you'd catch a lot which was good for the enthusiasm, and the experience also helped you become a better angler, however the main advantage was that a number of the 'Big Names' (and there were only really a handful compared to nowadays) used Stanbrough to try out their latest inventions, and so it was that we were very often amongst the first anglers to find out what the most up-to-date methods being used were.

I remember the first time I ever saw the 'Hair Rig', a couple of anglers had been using it for a couple of months over there and absolutely hammering the place, but they'd always unhook the carp in the net and kept the rig well hidden. Finally someone I knew got in with them and like anyone with such a secret, couldn't wait to show it off. They showed him, he showed me. That's how it was, there wasn't weekly or monthly carp magazines giving away all the secrets then, you simply had to find it out for …show more content…

Getting back to the here and now, I had all these thought processes going on in my head I finally took the difficult decision to fish for carp in a way that I hadn't done for almost 20years and use the 'Original Hair Rig' as described in Kevin Maddocks's fully revised 4th edition of 'Carp Fever'. Of course my ESP hooks were obviously more advanced then the 'Jack Hiltons' I used on the rig in the 80's, as was the mono I was now using, but other then that the principal and set up remained unchanged.

The first of the two waters I was fishing responded immediately, and in the 6 months I fished the lake I was out catching other anglers by about 3:1! The second water I took the rig to proved even better. This lake was far more difficult due to the constant pressure the fish were under, however the Hair Rig did the trick and once again far out fished the other anglers. I further tested it by using the same bait on both of my two rods but with my favoured 'Snake Skin' set up on one of them. The results were conclusive as the Hair Rig rod out fished the Snake Skin rod time after

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