Rick is my husband.  He and I started fishing together more than 16 years ago.  My favorite part of carp fishing was carrying these monster fish (the largest fish I had ever seen in person were the mounted bass on people's walls) up to the shack to get them weighed.  After becoming pregnant, my husband and other family members wouldn't even let me carry a bag of groceries in, so I lost interest in going.  I couldn't reel them in or carry them to be weighed.  However, I never lost the thrill that I get every time my husband gets a BIG one.  Now my brother-in-law and nephew are joining in on the fun.