| Oh, how I used to long for the monthly fishing | | | | up making sure he took every single item of |
| magazine to hit my local shop's magazine rack, | | | | tackle home with him as he just didn't want |
| hoping that there would be an article on carp | | | | anyone to know how he was catching the carp! |
| fishing to somehow help me with my struggles in | | | | This is just unbelievable to today's modern day |
| the pursuit of my 'addition' - the monster carp! | | | | carp angler, who incidentally - must be |
| This was the 1970s, yet it only seems like | | | | overwhelmed with the amount of information that |
| yesterday; those were the days when carp | | | | is available, from several monthly magazines that |
| fishing was a minority sport, unlike today, when it | | | | specialize in carp angling, plus an endless stream of |
| seems everyone and their grandmother goes | | | | carp fishing DVDs and books coming out, it's |
| carp fishing! | | | | enough to confuse any beginning carp angler. |
| There was very little information available, even | | | | Today one of the greatest breakthroughs in |
| your fellow successful carp fishermen where you | | | | learning on 'How to be a Successful Carp Angler' is |
| happen to be fishing were, well to put it bluntly - | | | | by studying a DVD with actual live filming of carp |
| would not even talk to you, let alone pass on a | | | | fishing, especially a carp fishing DVD that not only |
| few good fishing tips, it really was a very | | | | shows actual tactics but specifically concentrates |
| secretive era. | | | | on the underwater filming of how the carp feed in |
| I remember one very secretive carp fisherman | | | | their own environment, this is really an important |
| from the old days that was very successful, you | | | | area that the beginning carp angler should learn, if |
| would not believe the extremes that this chap | | | | he/she truly wants to be successful. So take my |
| would go to, for example when he started his | | | | humble advice and learn about how the carp live / |
| carp angling session, he would lay a large ground | | | | behave in there habitat before moving on to the |
| sheet down and set up all his tackle here, when | | | | area of bait, rigs and fishing techniques. |
| he packed up, he carefully rolled the ground sheet | | | | |