Just last year, Richard and I started fishing together as friends and it blossomed into something much more… After just a few weeks of our carp fishing sessions together, I was proud when Richard said to me, “I was shocked and surprised how natural Carp Fishing is for you, even though you have never done this style of fishing before.” But honestly, I felt intimidated by all of the different carp angling tactics that Richard was showing me and assumed he was just being nice.

Carp angling was sold to me as the freshwater equivalent to red-fishing. This intrigued me since I live five hours away from the nearest redfish. It was my boss that first took me out to fly fish for carp and I initially approached my new quarry the same way I had learned to fish for redfish…