michael kirby
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Its amazing how small the angling world is becoming,i live in South Africa and joined this web site to find out the latest uk information ended up reading Ron Clays story and about his time here in SA Carp fishing,i arrived after he left am now Vice Chairman of his old club the RPA which is 100 years old in 2012 the oldest angling club or society in SA and our Honourary life chairman is his old friend Trevor Babbich,sinceRons days of angling in SA we have caught up with the world and boilie or specimen angling is now becoming very popular in fact we have the World Carp Championships here in October at Bloemhof Dam,this is the 72 hrs in a bivvie comp with 2 anglers per peg,at the SA championships in March the bags were 650 kgs plus per peg at the same venue the World Championships will be fished at so watch out for the reports in the angling press!,this however is not the style i fishwhich is the old SA bank angling style with 2 rods and 2 hooks per trace Ron will be pleased to hear though that we have modernised some of our methods but anglers are not stupid anywhere in the world and you will find that the tactics developed over almost 100 years are generaly still the best as Ron will remember our dams are huge yet shallow with a lot of bottom mud hence the throwing 120 meters plus,the 2 rods and 2 hooks per trace still the fishing is awesome!i am at the moment experimenting with some success with swim feeders fished at long distances,and am reading all the articles to see what else i can try,i hope Ron reads this article and i can re connect hom with the RPA.