I was the tom boy between my sister and me, our parents used to take us, to the back side of the damn on Lake Pat in Cleburne TX. I don�t think any of the carp were over 5 pounds. I remember my Dad hollering �don�t horse it in, don�t force it.� I was 10 � 12 years old then. Time passes I was fishing at Benbrook about three years ago and Thomas, (not on TFF) brought in a big carp using his dough bait. That brought back the memories of my Dad fishing on the damn. I stocked up on Big Red and Wheaties and started fishing for carp at Benbrook, and the first catches I could hear my Dad again. He is gone now and the first few made me miss him a lot. I did some research on line how to weigh the carp because I was causing damage weighing them and they were small. I thought I see those big fish I know they have to be weighing them different. Grant introduced me to the Euro method, I bought my first gear from him. Spoke to Steve a few times on line, he told me how not to take the pictures, LOL. I met Rick (JoePool) on line and he started guiding me more. After fishing with Josef at the ATC I upgraded. Still upgrading but I have a lot of the basics, and some of the expensive stuff too.