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DEREK STRITTON
ga me changer.
When the “hair rig” arrive d, i t wa s n o m o re o r l e s s i n f l u e n t i al
o n what happened to carp f i s hi n g i n th e ye ars t h a t fo l l owe d . I
l e arned about both b ait an d t h e h ai r f ro m my t i m e a t D a re n t h ,
b u t it wasn’t until I took b o th to va r i o u s wa te rs , b o t h i n E s s ex
a n d the Colne Valley that I b ega n to re al i s e th e i r t r u e i m p a c t
o n carp fishing. On one p a r t i c ul a r E s s ex ve n u e a f te r b a i t i n g
u p , I landed the biggest ca rp i n t h e ve n ue w i t h i n an h ou r o f
s t arting to fish there. I then we n t o n to c atc h l o ad s m o re , a n d
I l ater discovered that I wa s th e o n ly an gl er t h e re u s i n g bo i l ed
b a its and the hair rig comb i n a t i o n . G re at fo r m e , bu t m a n d i d
I suffer from the “green- eye d mo ns te r ” b r i ga d e ! W h en B o b
M orris and I joined Savay, we s et u p to f i sh o n t h e f i r s t eve n i n g ,
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