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Rob Brownfield
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Shopping in Tesco's at 4am this morning, I spotted the latest copy of Carpworld. As I danced with glee (never seen the mag this far North before) I suddenly stopped. Nope, it wasn't the price, although i do begrudge paying that sort of money for what is really a yellow pages of tackle with 3 or 4 articles thrown in for good measure...it was the adverts for the French fisheries (Dream Lake, Fishabil etc.)
I had remembered the slagging that the poor match anglers had been given regarding commercial Match fisheries stocked with carp. It suddenly hit me that this is exactly what british carp anglers are paying for in France. For example, one very well known french carp water was quoting 56 tonnes of carp in a 10 acre water...WHAT!! Thats a rediculous stocking level! Figures like forty 40's, hundreds of 20's etc got me thinking.
I know people travel, spend a great deal of money etc on the fishing, but are we really any better than a match angler fishing for single figure carp in a muddy hole in the UK?
I expect some trouble on this one
I had remembered the slagging that the poor match anglers had been given regarding commercial Match fisheries stocked with carp. It suddenly hit me that this is exactly what british carp anglers are paying for in France. For example, one very well known french carp water was quoting 56 tonnes of carp in a 10 acre water...WHAT!! Thats a rediculous stocking level! Figures like forty 40's, hundreds of 20's etc got me thinking.
I know people travel, spend a great deal of money etc on the fishing, but are we really any better than a match angler fishing for single figure carp in a muddy hole in the UK?
I expect some trouble on this one