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Similar, wind and bow in the line can mean you are well away from your spots. This week with a strong south westerly, I was landing around a couple of metres short of my marker, and for some reason I couldn't hit my aiming point to the right. I had to add another 'wrap', or 3.66m, 12ft to get in line, and that's just in 4 feet depth. And casting... Not sure about the King, don't wish him ill, but not happy that he took the throne after his divorce from Princess Diana and marriage to a divorcee... He should have married her originally

C'mon Nick. As far as english carp fishing goes, a wrap is generally considered 12ft. Not metric measurements. Same as weigh our fish in pounds and ounces, not kilos. We dipped our toe into European measurements, but unfortunately it's the British way to do things the hard way. God save the pound! I mean Queen. Oops I meant King 🤴

Not using wraps is just fishing with the handbrake on in my opinion. Make life so much easier tbh and one of the greatest inventions in modern carp fishing. And only having to count into double digits makes life so much easier it's a no brainer. Although recently I have also started using a marker set up again. So now I can find a spot with a marker. Wrap it up the next stage is a leading rod so I can interrogate the spot I've just found around the marker. I think deepers can be great to a point but I've gone off mine recently though and just stopped using it. I think the rudd play havoc with it and give you false readings that look like weed, I also found it made me want to spend ages trying to find the perfect spot, whereas most of the time they don't exist and bait can quickly make an OK spot better that's where the rudd are quite handy 😂 To me a wrap is 12ft btw all the sticks I've owned come with a 12ft cord Someone asked me to do a review on these when I got them, Best £12 you will spend on wrap sticks tbh, they are thin and go in most grounds well and they are solid work a treat. Only down side they are quite short but that doesn't bother me really as i rarely need to go more then 21 wraps

I just had a rush of blood to the head and bought a daiwa Emblem S 5000T off ebay, £45 I've always wanted a set of these, didn't really need it though and not quite sure what I will use it for 😳

Sonik won’t be happy with that post

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 struggle to understand how people get confused about whether they have got 10 foot or 12 foot rods. Most distance sticks come with a cord set at 12 foot and I always use it. I do tend to work in wraps and save distances in my notebook using that, it's simple enough to times it by 4 to get yards if you need to. Using metres adds to the confusion!