I remember one Xmas days fishing, a couple of hours of catching small roach, 1lb bottom, single caster, then, under goes the float, and I strike into a lump, after 20 minutes of give and take, it comes to the surface, 19lb 6oz of mirror carp, bringing it slowly to the net, and it slipped the size 20 barbless hook and swam back down to the depths, I was gutted.