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DISTANCE FISHING

MADE EASY

How to achieve thoses important extra yard

TOP CARPERS

Ian Russell

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Harry Charrington Iain Macmillan

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Joe Atkinson

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Crafty Carper /// Issue 213 /// May 2015 /// www.craftycarper.co On the cover: Steve Broad with a 39lb 14oz mirror taken while shooting this month’s feature.

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Editorial James Turner Editor James looks at what’s

in store for you in this issue of

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and looks at the ways and

to give away. Answer the

again this month, and brings us part

means to enable you to get the

question correctly and you

two of his well-received Simple Rigs =

most from fishing at long range,

and a mate could be on your

Success feature. You won’t be baffled or

spring. He’s got plenty of waters

so you can reap the rewards.

way to France very soon.

confused, and you will catch carp.

to fish in the year ahead, with yet

Steve Broad

Broady gets out the big guns,

Carp Fighter Competition

We have a holiday for two

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Crafty Carper, as well as giving

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Going The Distance

Simple Rigs = Success (Part Two) Julian Cundiff

Our man Jules looks at his rig box

his thoughts for the month.

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The Knowledge Dave Lane Laney looks back on his

winter campaigns and welcomes the

more opportunities to net some much sought-after 50-pounders.

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Tackling Small Lakes Rich Seeds

With a good track record on some of the more intimate waters the UK has to offer, Rich is a great candidate for looking at how to approach a smaller lake and the often wary inhabitants.

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Crafty Catch Column Sponsored

by Sticky Baits This is the place to get your catch pictures published, so send them in to us, and you’re in with the chance of a great prize from those top guys at Sticky Baits.

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The Great Crafty Debate This month’s panel of experts

give their take on how their baiting changes at this time of the year.

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BYCAC – The British Young Carpers’

Angling Championship Ever wanted to become the champion?

It’s easy to enter and you can pit your wits against other junior anglers, as well as carp to over 40lb in Linear Fisheries’ Oxlease Lake.

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Crafty Carper Under-21s Max Leggett reveals all

about his trips abroad in the Under21s section this month, while BYCAC champ Michael Bamber checks in with his blog, and our overseas blogger, Troy Cavey, tells us about a few sessions worth remembering.

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Carp Food Here you’ll find the latest

and greatest products of carpy cuisine on the shelves of a tackle shop near you, as well as the Editor’s Choice of the month and

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Wychwood Competition

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Go Small – Catch Big Steve Hall

Steve is an extraordinary catcher

a crafty tip from Joe Turnbull.

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Aggressive Baiting Harry Charrington

Harry has an awesome pedigree in

Carp Food Special – Sticky Baits

We’ve got over £1,000 worth

of big carp from busy waters,

With the latest Sticky products

of rods, reels and hangers to

and we find out what he does to

competition carping, so he’s just the

hitting the shelves, we look at

give away this month, thanks

be a little different from the rest

man to look at how to get the carp

the highly-acclaimed bait sprays

to the guys at Wychwood.

when targeting huge carp.

into a potential feeding frenzy.

which have been causing a few stirs in the carp-angling world.

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Contents /// May 2015

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the pages of TicketMaster this month,

top-quality rod design, and

fishing magazine through your

and free fishing offers for every

with the Rod Hutchinson brand

letter box every month, then

reader to take advantage of. Get on it!

back in full flow, enter the new

this is the place to go to get

version of the Dream Maker.

your carpy fix. We’ve got a

The TicketMaster We’ve got four day ticket

fisheries from across the country in

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Hot Holiday – Scarper Carper

If you’re currently on the lookout for a holiday in France, with the chance

In Focus – Rod Hutchinson The term ‘Dream Maker’

is synonymous with high-end,

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If you are currently playing

around with Zigs, then page 85 is well worth taking a look at. Avid have

worth taking a look at page 72 to see

just released their new Zig line, and

what Scarper Carper has to offer.

we’ve been playing around with it.

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you the low-down on what’s hot and

which form of the dissolving

what’s not. Plus the Crafty Team give

stuff he opts for in a variety of

you their essential items this month.

situations, along with some nifty

We take a look at some of the

best products on the market, and give

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The new Terry Hearn

landing net is now available, and

If you want

to get your favourite carp-

advantage of this month.

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Inbox Keep up to date

with the latest news, and you can also get in touch with us here and see what’s going

Choose Your Weapon

on, as well as the rumblings

Rich Adams

from the carpy grapevine.

Rich takes a look at PVA and reveals

tips to employ in your angling.

In Focus – E-S-P

Subscribe

cracking offer for you to take

In Focus – Avid Carp

of bagging a few chunks, then it’s

Carpers’ Kit

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Fox and Crafty Carper Catch

Competition Hall of Fame Here you’ll find the hall of fame, including the winners from

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A Day In The Park

the last 6 months’ Facebook-

Joe Atkinson

based capture competition in

An opportunistic few hours spent on

conjunction with our friends

closer look. As ever from E-S-P, we

a park lake soon turned into an epic

at Fox. The overall winner

weren’t disappointed, and we can’t

session to remember for Joe, who

will receive a session with

wait to give the rods a blast too.

managed to tag the second-largest

a top Fox consultant.

we got our hands on one to take a

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In Focus – Wychwood With an impressive list

of new tackle items adorning the

fish in the lake along the way.

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Don’t Rock The

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The Question Is This month’s carping

Boat Jo Green

Well-known lady angler Jo

conundrums are answered by our panel

Green is back this month, and

this year, we got hold of the new

of experts. If you get your question

moves on to another awesome

C-301 rods, which are worth a look

answered, you’ll receive a cracking

water in the RK Leisure

if you’re a bit of a tackle tart.

prize delivered straight to your door.

portfolio – The Boat Pool.

product catalogue from Wychwood

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In Focus – The Firm Want to kit yourself out with

a new carpy hoody? The Firm can

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It Never Gets Old Iain Macmillan

Going back a good 15 years, Iain

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Mega Deals If you’re up for a

bargain, you’ll definitely want

help you, as they boast some good-

looks at how one of his favourite

to head over to page 130 to

quality clobber, plus their hoodies

angling and baiting strategies hasn’t

check out our Mega Deals for

are also available in children’s sizes.

changed a bit in this time, and still

some of the best offers from

results in a huge number of fish.

the country’s leading retailers.

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In Focus – Gardner If you use coated hooklinks,

then the Gardner Ultra Skin is not to be missed. We’ve seen a fair

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few coated braids in our time, and Gardner have really upped the ante.

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Going the Distance S

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Every carp angler loves to talk about casting, but are you getting it right? Steve Broad runs through some of the basics so that you can gain those all-important extra yards.

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asting is probably one of the

some of the country’s best casters

be stiff. This means that it doesn’t

most talked about subjects in

do lots of tuition days, so even this

bend when playing a fish, resulting in

carp fishing, and often it’s an

can be improved upon. I have been

an unpleasant fight experience. Up to

awful lot of drivel, with some people

to a couple and must say that it was

a point, most rods are a compromise

claiming the ability to cast huge

an eye-opener; it definitely helped

between casting ability and playing

distances. In the real world the truth is

me, so don’t be afraid to give it a go

action, which creates some nice

somewhat different, but we all possess

because it will make a difference.

user-friendly rods which are capable

the ability to do it; some will be better

So, let’s look at what else we can do

of casting very long distances. Like

than others, but practice makes perfect.

to make fishing at distance easier.

anything, if you want to push it right

We live in a world where we’ve never

As I said earlier, within reason, you

to the limit, you will need specialised

had it so good, with all the equipment

don’t have to worry about rods, simply

kit. The super-stiff powerful rods aren’t

available to us being absolutely top-

because the quality of today’s products

for everyone, and to get the best out

notch. Think about it – even though

is excellent. Firstly, you need to be

of them, you need excellent casting

you can easily pay over £400 for a

honest with yourself about your need

technique and, up to a point, physical

rod, you can also buy one for £120,

to cast. If you don’t fish big waters,

size is also important. I’m not a big fella,

which will perform equally as well.

why have a set of rods capable of

so this type of rod doesn’t suit me. I get

This also applies to reels, lines, and,

casting to the moon? On the flip side,

the best, and achieve the longest casts,

in fact, just about everything you can

if all your fishing is at distance, then

from a slightly less powerful beastie.

buy. So why is it that if you give four

it would warrant investing in more

anglers identical setups, they will all

specialised equipment. When making a

is line, which is crucially important

cast different distances? The obvious

rod capable of casting a long distance,

when it comes to gaining those extra

answer is technique. Thankfully,

there’s one major problem – it has to

yards. Put simply, the thinner the

The next thing on the agenda

line, the further the rig will go. This A 39lb 14oz mirror taken at long range from a new water, Holme Fen.

is because of a number of factors, including drag and weight. The trouble is that thin line doesn’t have a very high breaking strain, and thus cannot take the tremendous force of a fullbloodied cast. The first option is to use braid, which is thin for its strength.

As an example, most normal 20lb monofilament lines are about 0.40mm in diameter, while a similar breaking strain braid can be as thin as 0.10mm, half the thickness. It often makes me smile when you see an angler launch a marker float to the horizon and then not be able to reach with normal rods, which is a prime example of the difference between braid and mono.

You think it would be just a case of spooling up with braid and off you go, but – and you knew there would be a but – there are a number of inherent problems with this material. Most thin braids float, are expensive, have no stretch, aren’t user-friendly, and in a lot of cases, are banned. Given the choice, I would use braid for distance fishing simply because all the negative points are outweighed by those all-important

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NEED TO KNOW DATE: 3rd-9th August 2015 VENUE: Oxlease, Linear Fisheries, Oxford AGE OF ENTRY: 17 or under by August 1st 2015

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A Day in the Park Joe Atkinson

the close season and it was empty. I naturally presumed it would be busy all week, although it hadn’t been fishing particularly well considering its normal form, so this might have been the reason. So, with an afternoon free and it being so quiet, I couldn’t resist the chance of bagging a Priory carp.

Once the morning tasks were done and the tackle was sorted, the car was loaded and I was on my way. I arrived just before 12 to find there was still only the one lad on, which was very pleasing. Priory has a long island dividing the lake into two sides, with channels at either end. The one angler was fishing the small side, which

Signature pop-up hookbaits; placing the shot below the bait ensured it sat nicely on top of the hook.

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A Day in the Park Joe Atkinson

meant that the big side was free. It

12mm Signature pop-ups fished with

was going through my head, and just

was fishing again, this time in slightly

was evident when I got there that the

a small shot on the underside, so

minutes later, that very rod folded

different areas. I positioned the rods

fish were well aware of this. It was

they sat nicely above the hook, flat

over as the alarm sounded and I was

wherever I could see signs of possible

impossible not to spot them; they were

to the lakebed. With the rods ready

into one. Could it be? I soon realised it

feeding fish. Along the park wall to

fizzing up in several places and the

to rock, one was cast towards a patch

wasn’t, but a fish it was and that was

my left, an abundance of bread gets

odd one could be seen cruising close

fizzing just off a bush on the island.

all that mattered. After a spirited scrap,

thrown in by visitors to the park who

to the island. It made my swim choice

The other went on another patch of

an upper-double park lake common

come to feed the birdlife. Just feet from

an easy decision – the bulk of the fish

fizzing which was about halfway out

was in the net – mission accomplished.

the wall, in 2-3ft of water, I could make

were held up in the channel swim, so

towards the island. It was now time to

Before I knew it, the left-hand rod

out some feeding fish; whether it was

that’s where the gear was put down.

play the waiting game. A big cluster

sounded and I was into another fish,

on naturals or on sunken bread I didn’t

Previous visits had resulted in

of bubbles came up not too far from

this one resulting in a stunning mirror.

know, but they were definitely feeding.

fish coming to balanced hookbaits

my right-hand rod, and just seconds

Within 20 minutes of the rods being

I had the luxury of being able to walk

fished with little sticks, so this was

later, a fish known as the Double Lin

out I’d got two in the net, and with

my rod around and lower it down

where I started my attack, the only

pushed itself out of the water. The

signs of other fish still rising to the

stealthily, so I took full advantage.

tweak being to use tiny mesh bags

lake’s biggest resident topped out right

surface in the form of fizzing bubbles,

A small handful of bloodworm and

of bloodworm pellet instead of actual

over my rod, only a matter of feet from

I was confident of bagging more.

krill pellet was thrown over

sticks. Hookbait-wise, I opted for

my hookbait! You can imagine what

The rods were put back out and I

the top for a little added

RIGHT With patches of fizzing all over, I was definitely in the right place.

This upper-double common started the session off nicely.

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Simple Rigs = Success Julian Cundiff

DIFFUSION LEAD CLIP END TACKLE

COMPONENTS

• Nash Diffusion Camo Leader in 0.75 or 1.5m length • Nash Weed Safety Bolt Bead • Nash Weed Safety Bolt Bead Tail Rubber • Nash Big Ring Swivel • Flat pear lead

APPLICATION

is safe to the carp in that it can be fine-

CONSTRUCTION

it just sinks, sits, and disappears.

Unless I’m using my 360 Chod Rig or,

tuned to drop the lead (or not), and the

1. Take the Diffusion Leader out of

2. Get a Nash Big Ring Swivel and

occasionally, a Helicopter Rig due to

soft leader won’t lift the scales of any

the packet and give it a good stretch

push one of the loops through

silt issues, 95% or more of my lakebed

carp which runs when the leader comes

to straighten it out. This is the only

the small swivel, and then put the

fishing involves this setup. It’s tangle-

into contact with the side of the fish.

time you need to do this; with a lead

other loop through that loop.

free , literally disappears on any nature

It can be used at a yard or 151 yards,

attached it will continue to stretch,

3. Pull it tight and you have now

of lakebed, and most importantly of all,

and is my go-to setup on most waters.

and on the lakebed it is so soft that

securely attached the Big Ring Swivel

APPLICATION

no bigger than an inch. It just needs to

you create a bend in the shrink tube

For the majority of my fishing, the

go over the bend of the Twister when

to create the kicking effect. Once

bog-standard Multi-Rig I detailed in

pulled through the eye of the hook.

the tube cools it will be very rigid.

February’s Crafty Carper is spot on.

Practice makes perfect, I promise.

8. Store the rig in a rig box, but do

It allows you to change hooks when

2. Get the bait floss and use it to pull

NOT put it under undue pressure

necessary, and even reuse the same

the loop through the eye of the hook.

because it can take some of the

hook after a take, by repositioning the

3. Make sure the loop isn’t twisted,

bend out of the shrink tube. I literally

loop (having examined the hookpoint,

and add the Taska Threaded Bait

retain rather than pull tight.

of course!). However, when I’m

Ring, and push the loop over

TWISTED MULTIRIG

targeting bigger fish waters, then the

the top of the Twister hook.

Twisted Multi-Rig is my first choice.

4. Pull the hooklength back a

1. Once you have decided this rig is the

The larger square bend Twister hook,

little so that the Threaded Bait

correct choice, take it out of the rig box

with a smallish pop-up and the shrink

Ring sits as shown in the picture;

and prepare to add it to the end tackle.

tube kicker, really acts aggressively,

just on the bottom of the bend

2. Take a pop-up and screw the spike

and has tripped up numerous big

as it starts to straighten.

of the Taska Threaded Bait Ring into it.

fish for me since I came up with the

5. Using your fingernails, strip back

3. Get a split shot and add it to the

fine-tuned version you see here.

around half an inch of coating directly

unexposed part of the coated braid,

underneath the knot of the loop.

a few millimetres short of the end.

CONSTRUCTION

6. Cut off approximately three-

Mould some Cling-On putty over

1. Take the coated braid and tie an

quarters of an inch of shrink tube and

the shot; it mustn’t go beyond the

Overhand Loop Knot, so that the loop is

slide it down the hooklength. Push it

unexposed braid or it will affect the

COMPONENTS

• Nash Fang Twister Size 5 • Diffusion or clear shrink tubing • Nash Combilink/E-S-P Strip Teaze or Fox Camotex Coated Braid • Taska Threaded Bait Ring • Cling-On Putty • No.6 shot • 0.75mm silicone • 10-12mm buoyant pop-up

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over the eye of the hook so it goes a

spinning capabilities of the rig.

millimetre or two up the shank of the

4. Using a balancing bucket, set it

hook. When this is on, there should

correctly so that the weight of the

be some braid exposed under the

shot and putty holds the pop-up down.

shrink tube. This is important because

5. Cut off three-quarters of an inch

it allows the rig to spin in whichever

length of silicone, and thread it

direction the carp approaches from.

down the hooklength to the putty.

7. Take the completed rig, holding

6. Take the hooklength and thread

the hook with forceps, and steam

it through the eye of the Big Ring

the whole hooklength with the

Swivel, and tie a Loop Knot or four-

kettle. Using the forceps, ensure

turn Grinner Knot to form the loop.

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to the leader. Ensure it is bedded

loop on the unleaded end, and

down correctly, and that the loop-to-

you’re ready to go fishing.

loop knot is as compact as possible.

4. With a baiting needle, pull the

AT THE WATERSIDE

Diffusion Leader through the

1. I transport my rods in rod sleeves,

body of a Weed Safety Bolt Bead

so it’s just a question of taking the

using the latch of the needle.

rod out of the sleeve and putting

5. Pull the body of the swivel into the

the two pieces together. Ensure the

body of the lead clip. This really takes

lead is hanging correctly and the

some pulling because you want the

main line is in perfect condition.

two to be rock solid into each other.

2. The choice of lead size is up to

6. Use the locking pin to secure the

you, but I find that 2-2½oz is a good

lead clip to the swivel by having

starting point on many waters I

the pin go through the eye of the

target, if I’m fishing at 80 yards or

second swivel. I then add a wipe of

less. I can still hit the range, but with

superglue and trim any excess pin so

that size of lead and a fluorocarbon

that it’s flush to the body of the lead

main line, I can really feel the nature

clip. The purpose of this is to ensure

of the bottom, which is important.

that when pressure is brought to bear

Sometimes I use lighter or heavier

on the lead clip, it pops the lead off,

leads, but this as a starting point.

and not the lead clip off the swivel.

7. Again, using the latch of a

ADDITIONAL ADVICE

baiting needle, slide a Weed Safety

1. For most of my fishing, I use the

Bolt Bead tail rubber along the

0.75m version, but if I’m fishing a

Diffusion Leader. Wetting the leader

VERY big-fish water, I use the longer

slightly makes this a lot easier.

version to protect the carp’s flanks.

8. Add the flat pear lead to the lead

2. Because of the Diffusion’s

no putty is needed. The only putty I

clip and push the tail rubber so it

translucent qualities, it will blend

ever use is where I knot the main line

retains the lug. Because it’s such a

in and literally disappear, no

to neaten up the tag end of the knot.

short arm and soft short clip, you can

matter which lakebed it settles

4. It is reusable, so if you want

push the two together and it will still

on. Although it looks green, on

to take a leader off, neatly cut

pop the lead off in weed or snags.

the bottom it absorbs the colour

off the main line knot and then

9. Using a four-turn Grinner

of what it is lying on or over.

store the leader in a plastic

Knot, secure the main line to the

3. The Diffusion naturally sinks, so

case till you need it next.

Pull tight but not too strongly,

have come off), the hooklength will

or you may break the skin of the

kick out fully and be ultra-effective.

coated braid. The loop should be

4. I generally use a length of 6ins

about an inch in diameter. Trim the

from putty to Loop Knot when fishing

knot, leaving a small tag end.

over mush/groundbait; 8-10ins over

7. Add some rig glue to the knot,

a spread of boilies; and 10-16ins

and slide the silicone back up the

when fishing for big fish of 35lb+.

hooklength to cover the tag end

5. Using shrink tube as a kicker really

of the knot and the knot itself.

improves the hooking efficiency

It should look nice and neat.

of the rig, BUT when you hook a fish it isn’t really feasible to use it

ADDITIONAL ADVICE

again. Inevitably, the shrink tube

1. Because of the shape of the Twister

will have been straightened, so the

hook, you can fish comparatively

rig is a one-bite rig when targeting

small pop-ups so that they almost

big fish. It is not a big-hit rig or for

obscure the hook when viewed

use when encountering numerous

from above. I tend to use it with

nuisance fish. The pay-off is more

ultra-buoyant 10-12mm pop-ups.

than worth it in terms of efficiency.

2. You can critically-balance the

6. For the majority of my fishing I

pop-up, but I prefer to overweight

use the Combilink in 25/30lb rating.

the rig so that it holds down on the

When steamed, the stiffness of

lakebed; whichever way the carp

the material is perfect and settles

approaches, it can spin and find

nicely over chod. On clearer bottoms,

a hookhold. If it flutters up and

I know that both the Strip Teaze

down it isn’t as effective, and can

and Camotex are very good too.

bobble out of the carp’s mouth.

7. I generally use the rig with my

3. I always use it with two Solar Foam

Diffusion lead clip setup, but at

nuggets, usually two different colours.

range or over silt it can be used

When the lead hits the lakebed the

with Helicopter-type end tackle,

foam keeps the hooklength up and

which allows the rig to run up to

straight. As the foam pops off (by

the top bead. Personally, I’m not

using two colours, you know both

a fan of this, but some are.

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BIVVY Three

AVA I L A B L E N O W T H E L AT E S T B O O K F R O M A N G L I N G P U B L I C AT I O N S

(The Final Countdown)

I

t goes without saying that carp fishing is different things to different people.

As in most other things, time spent carp fishing changes you. You revisit some of your previous material when you come down to the nitty-gritty of the mundane chores required for the completion of a book project – like coming up with the jacket material. Having based the introduction to this book on a quote by Ernest Hemingway, I was surprised to read the following on the back flap of the jacket of More From the Bivvy: ‘…the buzzer sounding will always be meaningful and uplifting, but there came a time when the need for a sense of achievement started to conflict with the simple need to catch something.’ I was surprised, not because it isn’t true, but because I didn’t remember writing it! In my case, that change in outlook is emphasised in my carp-fishing approach in From the Bivvy, and the two books from 20 years or so later, More From the Bivvy and Bivvy Three. Over the years, what I caught, and from where, has become increasingly meaningful. If it is of any consolation to those of you who are too responsible, or simply don’t have the inclination, to pursue big fish, or fish long sessions, then I cannot pretend that carp fishing hasn’t become less enjoyable over the years, because for the most part it has. It is fitting that the Bivvy books have finished where they began, in Shropshire. I have travelled far and wide, but my memories of Snowberry in Bedfordshire, and Birch Grove and the Mangrove in Shropshire, eclipse all else in terms of the joy of simply being by the water, and trying to catch carp. Some captures are more significant than others, but if they bring you joy, then they are all meaningful..

* ** Bivvy Three is the last in the trilogy of Bivvy books.

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