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Rik started fishing at the age of four on his local tiny tidal river, catching eels and small wild trout on worm.
Not having had any angling family members, all his early fishing was solitary and this seems to have carried through to the present.
Like most anglers nowadays, he has a full time job and a family, so his fishing time is limited, although he does, he tells us, have a very understanding wife.He currently lives in the depths of Hampshire, and so is within easy reach of some excellent venues.
He has in the past, and still does, fish for most species, although his greatest love is for carp fishing, which is how the majority of his time is spent.
He now finds himself more thrilled with overcoming the intricacies and problems associated with catching carp, rather than the actual weight of the fish he catches and the so-called glory that goes with it.
| NOTE FROM GRAHAM |
| Last week Gary Knowles caused a bit of a stir with his ‘Losing The Plot?’ article in which he said, “After looking at some of the recent press reports and even listening to accounts of big fish captures by people whom I class as friends I’m beginning to believe that many anglers are seriously losing the plot. The whole fundamental reason for just being out there is rapidly disappearing into one great clamour for recognition or some kind of approval from our ‘peers’.” So what better at this time than a carp fishing for fun article from the FM columnist who has no peers and probably knows better than most what it feels like to catch outsize fish. |
| CARPING FOR FUN It’s not always about outsized specimens, baiting campaigns and three rods on buzzers. The other week I went on a fun trip to a club lake with a mate, Tony, and we fished for singles and doubles either on the surface or by stalking them. And what fun we had too.
We started off at about 7am by drifting mixer across the end of the lake and waiting for the fish to start rising for the freebies. By using a mixture of flavoured and plain mixers and by drifting them into the wind lanes, we soon had carp rising steadily for the baits. The breeze across the surface had a slight chill to it, so the fish were not greedily slurping away at the baits and were just taking two or three baits at a time.
And what great little scrappers they were. I was geared up with 1  When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission, which supports our community.
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