GET OUT WHAT YOU HOOK

“There’s a tendency to think that winter fishing on commercials means fine lines and small hooks, but in a team match and with no idea how good my peg was going to be, I didn’t want to fish ultra-light and lose the few carp that I may potentially have hooked.

“A 0.16mm mainline to a 0.12mm hooklink and size 18 Guru LWG hook seems a good balance to me and is the set-up I fish back on my home water, Heronbrook Fisheries.

“The week before showed me that the carp were a bit too big to try to get out on lighter kit.”