| Carp fishing gets more competitive every year so | | | | big carp caught on the crudest of rigs on the bluntest |
| you need tricks to give you the edge over | | | | of hooks possible on outrageously thick nylon line and |
| competing anglers and their baits and methods. Here | | | | certainly fished in places seemingly totally devoid of |
| are a number of well-proven big fish tactics and | | | | any fish. But the factor that really did get the fish on |
| tricks and some deeper just as instant home truths | | | | the hook was the bait. In fact I have gone as far as |
| about baits; their true effects on carp, and how | | | | testing numerous hooks, rigs, (very thick hook links |
| much they are under-exploited by the majority of | | | | and big heavy hooks too,) and what makes the |
| carp anglers! | | | | most difference is the bait recipe employed; the fish |
| When you think about carp fishing, after location and | | | | response to this has proven to over-ride other |
| a sharp hook you might consider bait to be a less | | | | considerations to the degree they are pretty |
| important factor; well I disagree; Iâve seen | | | | secondary. |