New Year resolutions: great idea, but they don’t really work do they? Well, they don’t for me anyway. I tried to give up smoking – that lasted three months (which, incidentally is fair better than Dan, who lasted a mere 2hrs) and I vowed to do at last one night a week on my choice venue for ’08 – I didn’t fish it once. However, I now look at the New Year as a chance to improve on the previous one. Although it’s only a change of digit on the year date, I look at it as fresh start, and that’s exactly what myself and the other guys at Toffee Publications are doing with the CARPology.
2008, in my eyes, was the year we produced the best 12 issues of our history. Rob Hughes amazed up with his underwater stuff, James Anderson with his tank tests, Regan with his entertaining tales and yarns, Sharp with his big carp tactics and Joe Morgan for getting a bite on almost every feature. But ’09 is already shaping up to be even better if this month’s issue is anything to go by.
Looking through ‘the book’ (that’s publishing jargon for a rough copy of the complete magazine before it goes to print) there are a number of key features. The first is our Live Rig Tests (P36) series which starts this month. Seeing as the KD Rig is the vogue set-up at the moment it seemed the perfect one to test on our fish. It has opened my eyes and hopefully it will yours – just like the Korda Underwater films did.
Elsewhere, Ken Beech (P80) makes his debut to the magazine with his The Travelling Man series, where he talks us through the whole process of finding and picking a new water and then tips and edges on how to get the best from it – whether it’s two miles or 200 miles from your house. On the other hand, though, we’re got Sharpy going back in history and retelling three tales of his Favourite Pitches (P48). Of course I couldn’t forget Below The Surface – sub-headed this month as Underwater Answers (P42) and then Anderson’s Tank Tests on page 88 where he trials carp food monsters, Dynamite Baits’ liquids.
I think I was right when I said 2009 is shaping up to be the best yet.
Enjoy the issue.
Joseph Wright, Editor
New Year resolutions: great idea, but they don’t really work do they? Well, they don’t for me anyway. I tried to give up smoking – that lasted three months (which, incidentally is fair better than Dan, who lasted a mere 2hrs) and I vowed to do at last one night a week on my choice venue for ’08 – I didn’t fish it once. However, I now look at the New Year as a chance to improve on the previous one. Although it’s only a change of digit on the year date, I look at it as fresh start, and that’s exactly what myself and the other guys at Toffee Publications are doing with the CARPology.
2008, in my eyes, was the year we produced the best 12 issues of our history. Rob Hughes amazed up with his underwater stuff, James Anderson with his tank tests, Regan with his entertaining tales and yarns, Sharp with his big carp tactics and Joe Morgan for getting a bite on almost every feature. But ’09 is already shaping up to be even better if this month’s issue is anything to go by.
Looking through ‘the book’ (that’s publishing jargon for a rough copy of the complete magazine before it goes to print) there are a number of key features. The first is our Live Rig Tests (P36) series which starts this month. Seeing as the KD Rig is the vogue set-up at the moment it seemed the perfect one to test on our fish. It has opened my eyes and hopefully it will yours – just like the Korda Underwater films did.
Elsewhere, Ken Beech (P80) makes his debut to the magazine with his The Travelling Man series, where he talks us through the whole process of finding and picking a new water and then tips and edges on how to get the best from it – whether it’s two miles or 200 miles from your house. On the other hand, though, we’re got Sharpy going back in history and retelling three tales of his Favourite Pitches (P48). Of course I couldn’t forget Below The Surface – sub-headed this month as Underwater Answers (P42) and then Anderson’s Tank Tests on page 88 where he trials carp food monsters, Dynamite Baits’ liquids.
I think I was right when I said 2009 is shaping up to be the best yet.
Enjoy the issue.
Joseph Wright, Editor
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