Skill, not brute force, is required to land big fish - Keith Arthur

Catching a fish over 80lb on carp tackle is a brilliant feat. 

No matter how strong the tackle, exerting pressure on a fish using a long rod is not easy. 

I once challenged a good carp angler to make a drag set at exactly the test curve of the rod work. It was an original Daiwa Emblem and a 2.75lb Kevin Nash Amorphous 12ft. He couldn’t do it without putting the butt on the floor, bracing it against his knee and pulling with both hands.

I was only holding the reel, not walking away – that would have flat-rodded him and set the drag off, as a fish would do. 

Anyway, hats off to Jacqueline Horvath, who landed an 86lb carp from monster carp water Euro Aqua. There’s a degree of skill in getting the fish to take the bait, but that is nothing like the skill (strength barely comes into it, by the way) required to put a fish of that size over a landing net.

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