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God knows how this thread has got so many posts🤣 Nick, your taking all this far too literally. A wrap is a term commonly used throughout the carp angling fraternity to describe a 12ft increment for casting. Your post is of course technically accurate, albeit obvious to the point of condescending (no-one is confused🤣), and some guys may choose to put their sticks less or more than 12 ft apart. But when guys refer to wraps, 99.9 % of them mean 12 ft increments. This is the point mate. To almost everyone, it has become a distance measurement. Call it slang for 12 ft. If you prefer to use metres crack on, no-one has an issue with that. I personally couldn't care less what guys use to measure distance. A wrap is as good as 12 ft is as good as 4y is as good as 3.66m as far as I'm concerned.

I caught 2 carp around the middle nene area today. I think the river is full of carp. What's anybody else's experience between Thrapston and oundle?

Think that’s the same one I bought the boss says she’s not ready for me to go that short yet I’m on a 0 at the minute which is 1.5mm lol

I used to use a Bic razor on me noggin but the last couple of year splashed out on a head shaver ..

I think you may find that distance sticks, wrap sticks what ever you want to call them do actually come with a cord. I have a set in each of my set ups and they all came with a cord so It doesn’t matter if you pick up an old snotty piece of string from the bank or shed and make a measurement with that it doesn’t matter how long it is as long as you set it up to the same distance every time you use it. 6” 6’ 10’ 50 ‘ it really doesn’t matter unless you tell anyone else your wrap measurement its not difficult lol

We still weigh fish in pounds and ounces whereas on the Continent they use kilo's, I don't think Jacob Rees Mogg is losing too much sleep over that. The reel method is slightly flawed as you will put on more line is the spool is nearly full compared to if you already have 100 yards out, (not metres Nick!) The 12 foot cord is far more accurate and reproducible.

Here is a quote from an article in the 1911 issue of The American Angler that provides an early example of the use of the term "wraps" in the context of casting distance: "The distance of a cast is determined by the number of wraps the line makes on the reel. A good caster can make 100 wraps, or more, with a light fly rod." So the term “wraps” is not at all confusing??? Here in France we only have the metre - as do most of the rest of the World. Colin Willock (the first editor of The Angling Times) wrote a book called “Rod, Pole or Perch”. Although the subject was angling, the title referred specifically to units of distance measurement. If Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogg gets his way you will be back to using these units as well. bon chance

Thanks, I've fished mainly oundle area for last 10 years now (after the loads of carp era) but have had a quite a few, and always see signs of them in couple of certain stretches. I have a boat moored in oundle so have a little advantage. There are definitely quite a few in the oundle area still and they seem to be thriving and hopefully on the return.

@framey, I can understand the confusion, because arithmetic is a dying subject, nearly as dead as Latin... I think that possibly most sticks don't come with a cord, so the angler (a) uses his normal rod to set them around 3.66m, 12feet apart, as originally done in the Carp Championship. No matter what length fishing rod used, the number of wraps is the same. Easy figures, 10 'wraps' times 3.66m equals 36.6m distance However, we have another angler who has 10feet rods, puts his distance sticks at 3m or 10feet apart, so the number of wraps he uses is different. 10 wraps times 3.04m equals 30.4m. And this is the whole point of the thread, a wrap is NOT a distance measurement, which to many it has become. It is why I and @Golden Paws use real measurement distances, whether we prefer imperial or metric. And after that explanation and point ban him...

Exactly this… 6ft, 9ft,13ft rod length makes no difference to a wrap length. unless, you have no cord any other way, add up wrong and you could be in a tree or 50 yards short lol