Hi
Welcome to the present state of the world you have to be weary nowadays as you will find most carp anglers who are heavily into it the cost of there complete setup will be several thousand pounds mine is in excess of £3000 so you must understand why people are wary about it
Even nowadays have to be careful where you fish as there is some scum out there who would not think twice about bashing you over the head for it.
The best idea I can think of is you would be better of going to a social and tag along that way you will find it will be more comfortable that way as a lot of other people will be present so you can have a good wonder round and talk to many anglers. With summer approaching socials are fairly common and they are great events to go to most have BBQ's ect and its also a way for you to introduce yourselves and that way after people have met you and your fella and have seen there is nothing bad about it you will find they will let you tag along a lot easier. I can see none of the other guys on here was making fun of you but it is as said a very strange request and as I have previously said with the value of our setups we are going to be weary. But I wish you the best of luck getting on the bank the weather for it is here