How lucky is

I was asked last week by some friends about possible day ticket lakes that they could goto this weekend it being easter and all. After much disscusion which is allways the way with fishing friends they diecided to goto Orchid lakes near Abingdon in the very nice county of Oxfordshire. Now Orchid lakes is not somewhere i have fished before but i sort of remeber a review about it and so they went off on friday morning,well leaving from Marlow in Bucks and going to Abingdon its a easy run down the M4 or M40 and well stright there almost,having got half way and having to turn back because one of them forgot his rods!. i mean how could you forget your rods there one of the most importent things without them you would not be able to fish they managed to get to the lakes and finding it very busy set themselves up on the club lake.
One of the party is a die hard carp angler and the other is a genral if it swims type of fisherman so two different approaches, the carp angler has caught up untill now 8 carp into mid teens and two bream.Now having fished alongside the carp man before i know what tatics he uses and im not supprised he has caught that amount im suprised he has not caught more but thats fishing. Now to the other member of the party he up untill know has caught three bream,one tench and a 30lb catfish !! on a boile.
Now these are two good friends who fish together quite a bit and who have been on many fishing adventures including a trip to france this year where the carp man caught a 25lb carp and the anything that swims guy caught a 36lb carp.
So i guess im trying to work out is a single species approach to fishing the right way or is it better to hedge your bets and catch whatever is feeding in your swim. But i suppose thats why we go fishing.........