DISCOVER CARP FISHING – A Total Guide To Carp Fishing
By Simon Crow and Rob Hughes
Price: Paperback £ 14.99
Published by Crowood Press
ISBN 1 86126 556

An in-depth look at how to fish for carp composed by the 1996 World Carp Cup Champions, Discover Carp Fishing is packed with information and advice on how to tackle even the most cunning of carp.

Topics include:

  • Detailed description of the carp itself and how to care for the species.
  • Best tackle to use.
  • Tactical considerations such as casting, plumbing and locating fish.
  • Different baits, including making your own boilie recipes, and baiting strategies.
  • Rigs and knots.
  • River carping, big fish hunting and match fishing for carp.
  • 192 pages plus 8 page colour section, 200 black and white photographs plus 50 line drawings.

Simon Crow is an angling journalist and broadcaster, and a fisheries and tackle consultant. This is his third book about carp fishing published. Rob Hughes is an angling promoter and journalist. He has a regular column in Angling Times and is organizer of the British Carp Angling Championships.

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The Crowood Press
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Ramsbury
Wiltshire
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FISHINGmagic VERDICT

I often wonder just how much more can be written about carp fishing that hasn’t already been said a thousand times over, so it always comes as a pleasant surprise to find something that is reasonably different.

But it’s easy for me to make comments like that, having been round the block a few times before the author’s were even born and probably caught my first double when they were still throwing dummies instead of 4oz leads.

But, fishing is not all about experience, it’s about how much you absorb along the way, and this pair have certainly made the most of their experience.

There is much to commend the book, for it attempts to cover many quite technical issues as well as the inevitable basics. The anecdotes are good too, particularly those about their foreign carping escapades.

There’s something for beginners and experienced alike, so whatever stage you’re at in your carp fishing career the book is well worth the fifteen quid you’ll need to fork out.

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