I still regard the swing tip as one of the best indicators for bream and roach legering in sluggish rivers and Fenland drains.
There is no doubt in my mind who invented the forerunner of the quiver tip. It was Peter Stone.
Now as regards what came to be known as the "Bolt Rig".
I didn't invent it as such, but I may have been the first angler ever to write about an arrangement whereby carp can hook themselves.
During the early 70s, many English carp anglers were still under the impression that you had to fish freeline tackle, even at distance. Then there came a whole series of articles about how to hit twitchers, again mostly at distance. I spotted this when I was made a member of the BCSG ca 1970. The Monk will describe how they used to sit there with bobbins or monkeyclimbers on each rod, each hand hovering over the rod like demented western fastdraw gunslingers.
To be honest I was also struggling to catch carp at distance in SA due to the Walkerian concept that carp could only be caught on a freeline, even at distance. In many waters in SA you often had to cast in excess of 100 yards to catch carp.
Then I took note of how some of the local carp anglers used to fish. And catch fish they did.
Big heavy weights, anything up to 4 oz or thereabouts were used. Attached to the line above the weigh was a short hook link paternoster style. The line was fished tight to the lead. Quite small baits were used - single grains of maize corn being typical.
Bent hooks were also used.
What was often interesting was the way of baiting. Not in one spot but all over the place. The idea was to get the carp cruising around looking for particles of bait, then taking your own baited hook, feeling the weight of the lead and line, the carp bolted - hooking itself.
I wrote about this concept in both the BCSG mag - The Carp, and the Angling Telegraph of May, 1974.
I was of course taken to task by none other than Richard Walker. He couldn't get his head around the whole idea.
During visits to the UK in '76 and '78, Eric Hodson told me that many anglers in the UK were now using my ideas and catching lots of big carp. Not only that but the use of "particle baits", eg. grains and seeds, was now quite common.
I explained to Eric that what I had written about was not my idea at all. I was mainly writing about a technique that worked and I thought the carp scene might be interested in my observations.