Tim Paisley : 13 years of the World Carp Classic
On the fourth morning of last year’s World Carp Classic at Lac de Madine a strange thing happened: my buzzer sounded and there didn’t seem to be a bream on the other end of the line. In fact, to start with I didn’t know if
there was anything on the other end. The end tackle was roughly 200 yards out between two potomageton beds and the only indication was the line tightening, and then staying tight. I wasn’t exactly buzzing with anticipation at the time: I was lying in bed and wondered what was happening – for reasons which I hope will become apparent. Chest waders on, life jacket on and out to the rod to check it out. It was solid, and unmoving. Into the boat
and out into the thick mist, still with little idea that there may be a fish involved: and even if there was one involved potomageton can be very unforgiving. I’d had a heartbreaking ‘pleasure’ session loss to a Madine potomageton bed many years earlier and didn’t feel over-optimistic about the outcome of this occurrence. When I got out over the pot bed
there was movement, and powerful movement at that! There was a carp involved in all this. As it was 13 years since I had last been connected to a carp in a World Carp Classic match I felt a twinge of anxiety, which wasn’t exactly helped by the fact that the fish insisted on towing the boat for 50 or 60 yards before it started to tire. I rarely remember the details of scraps with carp but that one is vivid in my mind because it was special; four days and nights in on another no-hoper and now I was in with a chance of a fish on a misty, atmospheric, proper carp morning, made more atmospheric by the fact that I was in an isolated mist capsule in the middle of an inland sea. Eventually the carp decided to
The Honey Trap
Winston Churchill once said: Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Or, alternatively – Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results... Albert Einstein
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