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MARK CURLY HATCHMAN
RECOLLECTIONS:
PARTICLE
EVOLUTION
N owa d ays when folk think of particles, it always se e m s
to b e t i g er nut related, but back in t he 70s, way be fo re
a nyo n e ever used a tiger nut , carp were bein g caught a l l
ove r t h e country on a much wide r var iety of parti cl e b a i t s
t h a n a p p ear to be used today. Like most at th at time , I
s t a r te d o n sweetcor n, and it only took a few h ours be fo re
I l a n d e d an 8lb’er on them, but it took four years for m e to
c a tc h my second fish on sweetcorn be cause a whol e n e w
wo rl d o f carp baits had opened up to m e.
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