"These day-tickets aren't what carp angling is about" - Reader Letter

I can’t get my head around the day-ticket palaver surrounding carp. Now it seems you have to book a swim, knowing full well that someone’s been in it for probably 48 hours before you set up. You’re paying out £50 to fish blind.

I was lucky enough to be on the syndicate where Chris Yates filmed The Secret Lake, where you could rock up and look for hours before you chose a swim. This is what carp angling should be about. 

On day-ticket waters you can’t be mobile because that’s your allocated spot. Yet it seems that big fish rule the roost, even if you are fishing a three-year old hole in the ground.

These guys should look at joining a good club for about £200 for the year. Many of these have excellent stillwaters, some only lightly fished. For the price of four 48-hour sessions on a carp puddle, they could be fishing somewhere excellent.

Larry Sprusen, Tisbury, Wiltshire

This is what carp angling should be about.