Lads,thanks for all your replies.I will be working at Boeing so hopefully there will be some fishermen amongst them there.I would love to meet up with one of you guys who could show me some of your local species.Do any of them fight so hard as Carp?The state record sounds interesting.My biggest caught over here is just over 30lbs and my biggest ever is 36lbs 4oz.Here's to a new state record falling to my rods over the next 3mths!WISH!I'll return to this site when i get there.cheers again,Dave.