where the catching of big carp is concerned, is that we have just become too good at it, and everything we need to catch big carp can be bought - venue access, tackle, bait and knowledge.
Yes fair comment Graham, but a number of factors have helped us become good at it, the most significant was the introduction of the bolt rig by that geezer from Rotherham, the hair rig was also very significant, the combination of the two allowed many who would not have sat it out hitting twitchers to allow the carp to hook itself and take a significant amount of skills out of the sport. Without doubt, nothing was more satisfying that hitting a very small twitch in the middle of a cold winters night and converting it into a double figured carp on the bank, wewould sit like gun fighters, rod at each side and hit the slightest twitch, you had no chance of a kip in the bivvy when they were not runnining, the bolts rig got the carp running again, but without the effort of a timed strike. Another signifivcant factor is that we now have a far greater biodiversity of carp and they have grown much bigger
