Another month passes by and, indeed, almost another year. So what has happened in the few short weeks since I last poured out my thoughts to the Carpworld readers?
Quite a lot actually, but most astonishingly the editor’s exploitation of Brook, my Staffordshire bull terrier – who, incidentally is a bitch, and not a dog, as Martin wrongly stated – in the November edition of Carpworld. I don’t know, you would have thought after seeing her puppies that he might have cottoned on to the fact that she is actually female, wouldn’t you?(more…)
I enjoyed Russell Hall’s ‘Goldendale – The Forgotten Lake’. Those carp look like true old warriors and it goes to show there are still a fair few lakes out there which are temporarily forgotten. I think the longer you spend in this game the more it becomes apparent just how quickly some carp can appear to grow, but upon reflection they are often just slow ‘plodders’. Many lakes that I wrote off several years ago as not being worth the effort for the size of fish they held, have now produced some very big fish. You can easily forget how long it is since originally writing them off. Even with a relatively slow growth rate it is amazing how much the fish grow over a period of a few years. There are some real gems swimming around in waters overlooked for a long while. (more…)
Snag Fishing
Now then, back to the previous edition of Carpworld. I enjoy interview type pieces and like to see what makes certain anglers tick. Some come over a little bit cold, in my opinion, and some at the opposite end of the scale seem to absolutely ooze eagerness. I like to think that by the time I have finished reading an interview I have a rough idea what the angler is like, personality-wise. The ‘Big Interview’ with Jim Carpenter showed just how much he has sacrificed in the pursuit of carp over the years, but the one thing which really makes me take my hat off to him was quite early on in his piece where he said: “I learnt then that I would never be a snag angler, and to this day I very rarely do it. I think that many fish get damaged in those hook-and-hold scenarios and I prefer to keep the fish looking good.”(more…)
By Shaun Harrison
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