Thanks to St Neots ace angler Paul Elt for this truly gorgeous picture of a fully scaled Spring Carp – probably the best looking carp image we’ve received in 2013 to date!

Paul always likes to start Spring with a few carp before switching to the Tench when things really warm up, and bagged this brace of 20lb Mirrors from a tricky club water. He was using a size 6 ESP Chod Rig baited with a single Dynamite Baits Pineapple Hi-Viz pop-up, which he cast to showing fish on the back of a cold wind.

Paul tells us he always uses a Drennan in-line Olivette up the line in order to pin down the mainline and avoid spooking fish. The olivettes are beautifully streamlined so don’t adversely affect casting, and also don’t cause a problem when playing fish.

“A good result because some of the regulars have fished there all spring and had yet to get off the mark!” quipped Paul.

Great angling!

For full details on the In-line Olivettes as used by match and specimen anglers, click here.