Trip 74 Carp Fishing- 2018

This is most certainly my last trip of the year, there are only a couple of days to go before New Year’s Eve. It would be nice to bag my last carp of 2018.

It was a night time set up and there were quite a few anglers on the lake (which was to be expected) Lucky for me, I could get myself tucked away in a bay area away from the pressure from all the other lines. This is in the hope the carp have been pushed into here and no-one else fishes the other end. I may well be luck.

I had checked the area out before I left last week, I could see across into this area and had seen a few flat spots. I used the Deeper and found a lovely mound and signs of small fish.

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Exactly where they had occurred last week, I flicked some bait out before heading home. I didn’t think that I would be in here this weekend, it’s more fate than anything else. There were only two other free swims and I didn’t fancy either of them.

I spomb out a mixture of Spotted Fin ground bait and small particles, micro pellets. It was mixed up with a bag of their frozen bloodworm, a small number of whole boilies and a few finely chopped once. I fished a natural pop up one rod and a black pepper squid wafter on the other one, both with tiny bags for good measure. We shall see what the first night brings.

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Over the night, my confidence grew with the about of lines I was having. None of them produced a take for me, which was a real shame. Just after noon, I got the Deeper out so I could fine-tune my spots and approach to the last nights fishing. I am very confident that I’m in the right area, just need to convince the carp to feed.

It’s going to be a very overcast day and hopefully, a chance of a carp in daylight hours. It would be a great finish to the year. I have continued to top up the swim with my Groundbait-mix and will fish similar spots tonight.

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