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Ron Clay
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I was talking this evening to my old friend Mick Lomas. For those of you you have never heard of him, he is one of the most successful all round specimen anglers in the Sheffield area. He told me of his PB bream of 10lbs 14 oz he took from a local gravel pit recently.
During his little campaign for these bream, he decided to do a bit of carp fishing to pass the time. Not bivvying up for days with boilies you understand, but the sort of carp fishing I often do, when an opportunity presents itself
A few days ago the carp in this pit were all on the surface, but that did not deter most of the "true carp men". They kept on as true traditionalist with boilies and bolt rigs at distance, fast asleep - catching nothing.
Mick rigged one of his Avon rods, 10 lb line,, 4 hook and baited with a bit of "........."
Withing 10 seconds of casting in, he hooked a good carp just under 20 lbs and landed it in the heat of the day.
This did not go un-noticed and after hearing the splashes, several young kids who where sleeping in their bivvies awoke and walked along the bank to ask Mick what bait he had caught it on.
Mick told them it was a special bait he was field testing for a well known Rotherham bait firm. He was put under a great deal of pressure to tell them what it was, as several of them had been on the water for a number of days without a pull and that they were getting bored.
Mick eventually relented and told them it was a bit of Warburtons Special.
I am told that a certain Rotherham Bait manufacturer was bombarded with emails and phone calls asking what a "Warburtons Special" was.
The moral of the story is, why is it at that the vast majority of carp anglers are far more interested in what the bait is, rather that how the bait was fished?
I have done this trick myself on a number of occasions.
Perhaps me and Mick are getting a bit too old!
During his little campaign for these bream, he decided to do a bit of carp fishing to pass the time. Not bivvying up for days with boilies you understand, but the sort of carp fishing I often do, when an opportunity presents itself
A few days ago the carp in this pit were all on the surface, but that did not deter most of the "true carp men". They kept on as true traditionalist with boilies and bolt rigs at distance, fast asleep - catching nothing.
Mick rigged one of his Avon rods, 10 lb line,, 4 hook and baited with a bit of "........."
Withing 10 seconds of casting in, he hooked a good carp just under 20 lbs and landed it in the heat of the day.
This did not go un-noticed and after hearing the splashes, several young kids who where sleeping in their bivvies awoke and walked along the bank to ask Mick what bait he had caught it on.
Mick told them it was a special bait he was field testing for a well known Rotherham bait firm. He was put under a great deal of pressure to tell them what it was, as several of them had been on the water for a number of days without a pull and that they were getting bored.
Mick eventually relented and told them it was a bit of Warburtons Special.
I am told that a certain Rotherham Bait manufacturer was bombarded with emails and phone calls asking what a "Warburtons Special" was.
The moral of the story is, why is it at that the vast majority of carp anglers are far more interested in what the bait is, rather that how the bait was fished?
I have done this trick myself on a number of occasions.
Perhaps me and Mick are getting a bit too old!