Wise words about tackle developements Mr Crow, braid has gone full circle from the days of Richard Walker, once dismissed as string by the mono brigade and returned to as hooklengths by the specy crew decades later, method feeder, the old timers, freelined big balls of groundbait squeezed around the hookbait, inventing records, how about stocking lakes with over fed over hybridised fish, Dever springs in the trout world, countless examples with carp, true records our engineered , i leave that to the judgement of the individual, there are 200 Acre pits in East Anglia, captures from these lakes commands respect, stocking level 7 to an acre, if they can produce on a regular basis, Dave Lane and Jim Shelley spring to mind, then you deserve your fame.