THE CARP AND CARP FISHING 



sportsman who could be relied on not to dash his net after the fish, 



and in just about an hour he had him, and we brought the now 



heavy net in together. On that day they must have been on, for I got 



two: seventeen and a half pounds and ten and a quarter pounds; the 



day before one of fourteen pound five ounces, which I landed alone 



(after it had tried hard to dodge the net, as it is well known they 



will do), no slight job, for the loss of a carp after days of trying is very 



different to losing other fish, at least to me, the chances of a bite are 



so slight." 



It is a very rare thing for such carp as those described by Mr 



Overbeck in his capital account to be caught in this country — or any 



other. He caught his in 1902. About nine years later, in *' The Fishing 



Gazette" of July 1, 1911, the Coronation year of that keen angler, his 



Majesty King George V, I was delighted to be able to record the capture 



of two monster carp in Cheshunt reservoir, one by Mr Hugh T. Shering- 



ham, angling editor of *' The Field," of sixteen pounds five ounces, and one 



of sixteen pounds seven ounces, caught by Mr R. G. Woodruff in the same 



water on the same day — June 24, 1911.* 



I wish I had space to give their accounts of their captures. It would be 

 easy, if I had space, to give a great list of baits and ground baits for carp, 

 but if they cannot be caught by those already mentioned it is very doubtful 

 if any others would deceive them. 



* In the firit half of Angust, 1913, at the same place Mr Piercy took a carp of eleven pounds eight ounces, Mr 

 R. G. Woodruff one of fourteen pounds eleven ounces, and Mr T. Andrews one of sixteen pounds eleven ounces. I 

 think Mr Overbeek's seventeen-pound eight-ounce carp is the record on rod and line to date August 18, 1913. 



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