How many anglers take risks by trying to think or do things differently in their fishing. If you are one who does then you are always a step ahead of the majority and your catch results will demonstrate this!

It takes courage and self-belief to be innovative and risk failure. But those who try know it is always worthwhile in the end! Fishing is always about learning, constant improvement and change. Nothing ever stays the same. Even on easy waters, the bait or method that caught you fifty fish last year may be susceptible to an more innovative approach or different bait. The impact of other anglers and their innovations can have serious implications on your own catch results if you are left behind.'

It's not that fishing is a race, but on waters where fishing pressure is very intense, then the carp tend to alter their preferences and behaviour very quickly and your catch results can change as a results of activities, baits and thinking that is new to the water.
Better to be an innovator than a sheep!' Yes it takes self-belief to be the first in any endeavour but I'm sure that the first to try the hair rig, shock or bolt rig' and many different versions of boilies with it, were not sheep! These were the guys whose results were in a different league to the rest.

But anyone could have come up with this new combination of innovations and indeed many people were using versions of the hair rig exactly when Lennie Middleton and Kevin Maddocks were claiming to be the first! There is a phenomenon in which the same idea strangely seems to infect the consciousness of various people at the same time, and this is demonstrated in the origins of numerous famous inventions throughout history. (The telephone being one prime example.)

It's all about having the courage to fail knowing that each failure' in reality is just feedback adjusting your actions and thinking back onto the right path towards your goal. Thomas Edison is famous for this, inventing over a thousand ways of how not to invent a light bulb. However, you can bet that many of these ways had other very important applications and uses of various kinds.

Failure' only seems to be failure out of any context of application. Carp baits are the same. In trying to make one type of boilie mix for one water or species, you fail, and then it may be the perfect solution for a different water, fishing situation or even different species. How many anglers have made a new boilie bait and found it would not roll?

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