Bill Cottam returns with his trademark column… Be afraid. Be very afraid!

BY BILL COTTAM

@cottamcarpangler

Bill Cottam Carp Angler

CARPING ALLEGEDLY ’ within the pages of CARPology… who’d have thought it! For those of you who aren’t aware, this column featured in Angling Publications’ Carpworld magazine for a number of years. Amongst numerous other things, it brought to people’s attention that rod pod users should be lined up and shot at dawn, cork-handled rods should be banned from all forms of angling apart from river chub fishing, and that you should never fall into the trap of thinking that being a successful carp angler is more important than looking good on the bank. I cannot deny that my words have rattled the occasional cage over the years, but I can live with that; the problem, of course, is that some people simply can’t handle the tr

So there you have it; sadly, Carpworld is no longer around, but as far as ‘Carping Allegedly’ is concerned, as one door shuts another one opens! Thanks to all at CARPology then, for giving me the opportunity and the magazine space to put the carp world to rights, and to show you once again, that I am indeed the seeker of piscatorial truth and justice.

COVID CARPING

I currently feel like a rampant Bengal tiger that’s been caged for ten years and released into the wilds of Bangladesh for the first time. I have just returned from France, and consequently have been subjected to a fourteen-day quarantine.