Confused.. I wasn’t sure what was going on, but there was a carp on the other end of the line.


My second Madine Classic Carp, a mere 13 years after the first! 47lb 2oz.Below: with partner


Jacko and the irrepressible Ross Honey on stage in 2011


has held the carp world record, and Jacko has held the British carp record, and won the British Championships. (The fact that I’m not fishing with Jacko in this year’s event has nothing to do with our Classic fortunes! Lee teamed up with Chilly when Briggsy and I were down to defend our World title on the St. Lawrence last September, and they only went and won it! The outcome is that they are together at Bolsena and Steve and I are fishing the Classic together this time around.)


event ... and simply put we have one man’s vision to thank for that. Take a bow, Ross’ TIM PAISLEY


I’ve explained that we are all proven winners not as an ego trip, but because we all know only too well that our fate will be decided in Sunday night’s draw when reputations and past achievements count for absolutely nothing. If you draw well you are on a high. If you are unlucky you throw things around


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for an hour or two, have a couple of drinks too many (nothing new there then!), and then shrug and accept that you are going to have to make the most of your five days of camping. Then, at the end, if it hasn’t worked out as you hoped, you go away, lick your wounds, and reflect that next time, or the time after, or maybe even the time after that, your number may come up in the draw and you may just be good enough to add the World Carp Classic to your CV (For the record my highest finish in 13 years of trying was third place, fishing with John Lilley at Amance many years ago!). What you don’t do is give up. Either you


want it, or you don’t. If you want it enough then you are in the Honey trap – and


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