S-Kippy
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There is carp fishing and there is carp fishing. I've spent years trying to avoid the things and I've no desire to haul out hundreds of pounds of 5-6-7-8 lb carp week after week. I've done it....but the novelty soon wore off. Likewise I've no desire to sit spend days waiting for 1/2 runs from great big lumps.
I'm currently having a bit of a carp dabble on a fairly easy "runs" water where the fish average mid to upper double figures with a good chance of a 20+. In a short 5 hour evening I can reasonably expect 4-6 fish so something is happening fairly regularly. That ( currently) i don't find boring because it's new to me but I suspect the novelty will soon wear off.
I certainly couldn't do it to the exclusion of everything else but I am beginning to at least understand why some people do. For the moment it's presenting me with a different challenge and that I do like as I can easily get stuck in a rut fishing wise. A couple more trips and I'll have had enough I think....then I will want to try something else and for the first time ever I now have the time to do that.
Carp ( or any other sort of fishing) is only boring if you let it be .
I'm currently having a bit of a carp dabble on a fairly easy "runs" water where the fish average mid to upper double figures with a good chance of a 20+. In a short 5 hour evening I can reasonably expect 4-6 fish so something is happening fairly regularly. That ( currently) i don't find boring because it's new to me but I suspect the novelty will soon wear off.
I certainly couldn't do it to the exclusion of everything else but I am beginning to at least understand why some people do. For the moment it's presenting me with a different challenge and that I do like as I can easily get stuck in a rut fishing wise. A couple more trips and I'll have had enough I think....then I will want to try something else and for the first time ever I now have the time to do that.
Carp ( or any other sort of fishing) is only boring if you let it be .
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