Carp Along The Way Volume Two by Rod Hutchinson

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Carp Along The Way Volume Two by Rod Hutchinson

Carp Along The Way Volume Two by Rod Hutchinson

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Carp Along The Way Volume Two by Rod Hutchinson

The first volume of Rod’s Ramblings – aka Carp Along the Way, a sort of autobiography – ended with Rod speeding down to Savay in the early '80s in his ‘Night Driving’ chapter. The piece could have been from any era of Rod’s carp fishing with any of a thousand destinations in mind that he has had in his sights when he has left his Lincolnshire home at all hours of the day and night. For much of his life Rod’s involvement with carp has gone beyond the addiction category to the all-consuming cloak of an obsession. For many, many years he simply had to carp fish and he introduces this volume by reflecting on the fact that this obsession with carp has been damaging to some non-carp aspects of his life, most particularly in terms of his ‘permanent’ personal relationships with the opposite sex.

Roughly speaking the book covers the Eighties into the early Nineties, although dates don’t really matter in the context of this volume. But it is important to stress that the material which appears here should be set in the context of his two great Eighties’ books ‘The Carp Strikes Back’ and ‘Carp Now and Then’. Rod was at his most prolific fishing-wise and writing-wise during that decade and the material here is a backdrop to the successful and committed fishing he was involved in during that period. It is also the period during which Rod’s famous syndicate lake Woldview was created. What with having a home life, running a business and creating Woldview it is remarkable that Rod found time for trips down south and abroad, but he certainly managed to do that, as this fascinating book reveals!

Emerging carp anglers of today will have their own hero figures but none has greater stature or has had a greater impact on carp fishing than Lincolnshire’s Rod Hutchinson. He burst onto the national scene in the early Seventies with his extraordinary results at Redmire and has been charismatically and globally high profile ever since. He was one of the original bad boys of carp fishing in the sense that he was irreverent – an irreverence that shows in his early writings and much of the new material in this book! – and an accomplished stroke-puller. Rod invented the now universally accepted word ‘guesting’ to cover his more borderline carp fishing exploits and has never made any secret of the fact that smelling the roses, and the hops, is as big a part of his life as his womenfolk, family, football, boxing, music and carp fishing. In his maturity he attaches some importance to the need to be seen as an elder-statesman role model, although it wasn’t always thus! Rod’s carp fishing exploits cover more than 50 years, much of his fishing having been carried out on the highest profile carp waters of their time, and in the company of many of the biggest names in carp fishing. He has had a major impact on carp-fishing methods, bait and tackle, and his watercraft and ability to locate carp are legendary. For many anglers he will be remembered for his ability to bring his carp fishing adventures and friendships to life on paper. His anecdotal writing is second to no one’s and the first volume of Carp Along the Way is already being acclaimed as one of the greatest carp-fishing books of all time, a book worthy to be set alongside everyone’s favourite, The Carp Strikes Back. Now in his early sixties Rod is semi-retired, lives with his partner Corrie near Louth in Lincolnshire, and is still as keen as ever to travel to the highest profile carp waters in the world in pursuit of carp. Having gone twenty years between his last two books Rod is making up for lost time and is currently working on his next two books, ‘Carp Inspirations’ and Volume Three of ‘Carp Along the Way’.