Inside Our Month For This Issue…
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Rob started his
Amwell campaign in search of another English thirty – or dare we say it, forty-pounder. This isn’t it, but hopefully next month it will be.
Six hours driving through France with a wheel bearing on the way out. It sounded like a turbo-charged milk float.
Angus’ method of cooling off in 38°C. Nice ‘farmer-arms’ and ‘muffin’ pants. N.B. He doesn’t know we’re printing this. Stitched!
Corporate gig at Watermark with Adrian Davey (doing 90’s “rabbit fingers”) included going on the ‘X-Scream’ water donut. Note the idiot who fell for ‘it’s best to keep your socks on’.
Tried fly fishing and caught my first ever browny. I felt like a kid who’s caught his first ever fish as I run across the field to show everyone!
Regan sent us another ‘ship’ pic. Forget the one-liners, entertaining pics and big fish people, the man is in a red and yellow boiler suit and standing next to a propeller bigger than him!
The Carp-4-Cancer event was an outrageous success. Unfortunately we couldn’t make it, but the chaps did a fine job of capturing what went on. Top work, Paul, Dave and co. P10.
Joe Morgan doing battle with a carp that evaded Sharpy and Renyard. As Ali Hamidi would say, “Go on the Morgan!” P26.
Spent a morning with the legend that is David Coakley from The Bait & Feed Company. Seriously, don’t challenge him to a baiting campaign challenge.
Now that’s dedication. Page 10.
That well-worn adage that states you’re never too old to stop learning (even Hearn and Yatesy would agree) appears to be true, if what we’ve found from putting this month’s edition of CARPology together is anything to go by. In Nigel Sharp’s feature ‘A New Season’ (P42) Nige details how (there’s an simple-to-peruse illustration) he found the spot that produced two thirties from the rock hard Road Lake and then what rig and baiting method was best suited to it. Elsewhere in Back to Basics (P23) the method of baiting up to move the fish off the area proved spot-on as this month we used it to good effect by taking two high-thirties within ten minutes whilst over in France.
Meanwhile Pete Castle (P34) proves you don’t have to spend a month’s salary on the last snapper to get Getty (that the world’s biggest and most respected internet picture library site) quality scenic shots. And as all the “pro’s” keep tell us, “it’s the little things that make the big differences”, we’ve learnt how to look after our sunglasses better so we can see more (P20) and how Scott “Geezer” Grant’s Stack Rig (P21) isn’t just another fancy rig, but one that works exceptionally well – again, France proved that.
Also this month James Armstrong spends the day on the bank with Jason Hayward (P50) talking about weed, Dave Moore makes his first ever appearance in CARPology by taking part in The Rotary Letter (P71) alongside Dave Ellyatt and James Anderson reports back with his findings on Nashbait in The Tank Tests (P82).
Enjoy the issue…
Joe Wright, Editor
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