Oh ...yes thats another thing you will find has not changed...the anti Carp element on FM...they are still rocking...
I think you'll find that very few, if any, are as you put it 'anti Carp'.
The point that seems to be so often overlooked is the fact that so many mixed fisheries have been ruined to the all round angler due to the trend in overstocking with Carp so that those who want to rock up and fill a keepnet or two every time they fish can do so.
It's not the Carp that's the issue, it's what so many clubs and fisheries have done with them that irks so many.
And it's been popular, very popular in fact and market forces will be market forces whether I like them or not but I reckon many are now getting bored with it and when all the mixed fisheries have been ruined what is left as an alternative to rekindle those anglers' interests?
Not a fat lot.
I reckon the whole thing has been trade driven, they've had a good supper out of it and as is often the case when someone makes a bit of coin they disappear over blue yonder to leave everyone else to pick up the pieces and sort out the mess they left. For me it's been nothing more than what is, in the grand scheme of things, a short lived artificial 'hit' but as with everything what goes up must come down.
I love Carp, handsome things if ever there were some but what many have done with them, and to the consequence of many others, is nothing less than short sighted, mono-thinking ignorance.
I don't want to visit waters where I know what will tug my string every time I get a bite, or that the fish I caught has been caught three times already that week, or fish for other species on comparatively crude tackle due to the likelihood of Carp coming along.
That is what has been taken away from the all round angler and that's what so many begrudge, it's not the species so much as the mentality behind it and whilst the Carp angler will always be able to visit his water and fish for his target with his regular methods and means, the all rounder has been denied their own pursuit on so many of these affected (not infected!) waters.