More Ramblings

Deeper Sonar isn’t just about fish finding, it is so much more.

Finding holes in the weed is made so much easier, just drift your Deeper around in the breeze, without any disturbance to yourself and other anglers. Once you find the spot take note of the distance to the shore, the best horizon maker, wrap up and get a single hook bait on the perfect spot. Others will spend hours thrashing around with a marker float, spooking all the carp and upsetting everyone else.

Fish Deeper Page, is such an amazing tool and once you have mapped your lake, you can simply see a carp show and know where it is, what depths it’s in, and know the direction it’s traveling. You can work out where it’s heading, position your bait accordingly, intercept it and bag yourself a PB.

People say it takes away the watercraft side of fishing, but I say that with the volumes of anglers out there today, it just must help cut down on disturbance and the annoyance that the increased angler pressure on the bank giving everyone a better chance of catching.

You still need wafer craft to understand what’s out there and how the fish are going to behave (if you’re going to be very successful at catching fish of any type). The Deeper is not just for carp fishing, it’s an all-around tool for the all-around angler.

Back in the early ’80s, when the closed season was still inforced and with permission from the club, a few of us would go and map the lake for a few days. We were armed with a couple of marker rods each, we would find a spot and mark it with all the rods we had from different spots on different banks to get the best picture of where the gravel bars were. We were always amazed that you would think a marker float was close to another one, but in fact, it could be way past each other. We all know how deceptive angles from different swims can be. On this small water, it was pretty straightforward mapping it, but in reality, we only cover small areas, and a Deeper Sonar drifting about for a few hours can map more than we could ever manage in our close season trips.

I think some people may be wary of technological advances within the fishing industry but I think it has vastly improved our chances. Lakes are now packed out, so, the ability to arrive armed with knowledge can’t be a bad thing.

Until next time

Richard

 

 

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The wife was traveling again this week and so I couldn’t get down the lake until Friday evening.

I arrived just be 1730 and ended up in the same swim as last week. The wind had been pushing down that end for the past 24 hours and looked absolutely perfect. The water was nicely colored up, it was due to continue like this over the coming 24 hours, it just felt the perfect area again.

I had repaired the Fox reflex bivvy that I had broken last week and was using it.

There was a day angler on the big grassy swim to my left but he wasn’t fishing anywhere near me, as that would be 31 wraps out and across the front of this swim. I generally cast out more to the right side of this swim to avoid any inconvenience to other anglers. I’d popped by, when I arrived, for a chat with him first to see where he was casting and if necessary I would have gone in my hidden swim amongst the trees, in order to give him more distance between us. He was heading home at 7 pm and was happy for me to set up but I wouldn’t spomb out until after he had gone home (out of curtsey).

I set up home first and got the rods ready. Only find that my buzzers were still in my day bucket from my Monday rainy trip out, $#!+. What’s going on at the moment? For the second week in a row, I was heading home again. I called home, the wife had just finished cooking tea and was able to meet me in a service station car park halfway, with the day bucket. A big thank you to my wife for knowing what my day bucket is and driving to give this to me and also a big thank you to the day angler who kept an eye on my stuff so I didn’t need to pack up for the second week in a row.

I arrived back at 1845, finished setting up, spombed out the contents of my bucket of bait and got both out onto the spot.

The first night was uneventful, and probably for the best after yesterday evening.

The weather is still pretty favorable and a good chance of a bite today.

Around 11 am I spotted a carp show and as I had a pot of Spotted Fin’s new Pink Pepper Squid active gel in my bag, I felt it was a good time to use it.

I was in the middle of doing my vlog and the right-hand rod was away, it had only been out there for about 15 – 20 minutes! I’m not 100 sure, as I thought it was the middle of the afternoon and I’ve just found out its midday as I’m writing this. I often lose track of time fishing.

The fight was incredible, it just kept taking line every time I gained any ground, but it slowly got closer and closer. I still hadn’t seen the fish, even though it had swam by me a few times, I was up to my knees in the lake. I had also found out my waders had a small hole! Another job on the list of things to fix.

The carp was still holding ground and trying to get to one of the humps that touched the surface nearly, in an attempt to bump the hook off. I slowly walked back out of the water and back up the bank to hold the line as high in the water as possible and avoid a hook pull.

It was finally getting tiring and eventually rolled on the surface. I was amazed to find out it was another mirror. I must hold my thoughts and concentrate on getting it in the Nsr50 first, before celebrating my success.

I was over the moon with my second mirror from here, they like rocking horse poo and I normally get a couple of ugly ones that are about.

I dipped another hook bait in the active gel and got the rod back on the spot, it was around 1 pm now. I also took the opportunity to stick a few 20 mm Classic Corn Boilies out, spread over the area.

The afternoon was spent watching the lake and Netflix. The wind was picking up nicely in the late afternoon and I was thinking there could be a good chance of a bite before the evening lull. It’s going to be about 9 degrees tonight, which is also looking promising for a bite tonight. I need to be off early tomorrow, as I’ve family things on, and then it’s half-term and our normal week in Wales camping.

Hopefully, the weather will be favorable again this year.

What a gorgeous evening, with the wind pushing in my face. I’ve packed away some of my kit onto the barrow for a quick getaway by 9 am tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed for another carp tonight.

The night was quiet until I was woken just after dawn time to find the carp had started spawning. As I need to be gone early it was a bit of a bonus, I was home by 8 am.

I will be back again soon. Bring on the summer. I may well switch between the Meadow and Airfield Lake’s over this period.

Until next time

Richard

 

 

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When I first started carp fishing back in the ’80s, I was making my own bait like everyone else and over the years, due to home life ended up buying bait. Back in the day, you would create the perfect bait mix and then stick to it as long as it kept catching. What I don’t understand is, why bait companies are put under pressure from the modern-day angler to produce a new boilie every year? It may be that some bait companies feel the need to bring a new product out every year to keep up with the competition from other companies or that the modern-day angler feels the need to swap baits every year.

I’m not really sure why anyone would, I prefer to stick to a bait that I’ve got the utmost confidence in and is consistently catching up carp. Why would you switch over to some new and basically start all over again building your confidence up? I would always be wondering how the old bait would’ve performed and would I have been catching more than I was on a new bait? It really does seem a bit silly to put yourself under more pressure and stress. Generally speaking, modern-day anglers don’t have the time or the inclination to make their own bait and don’t fully understand what goes into a good bait and how to make one – no hard feelings meant in that statement. There are a vast array of options these days, way more than when I was making bait. I would say that my knowledge is not where it was back in the ’90s as the products and the research papers are readily available. The internet has certainly opened the search side more now.

I can understand if your not catching much after say six months or so, but you do need to put it in perspective, relating to your fishing circumstances. You may have changed rig, fishing less, or at a different time to others. It does seem that people blame their bait first and don’t look back at what else has changed. We all go through lean periods. I write about not giving up a dispair as it can simply be something you have changed and not really remembered doing. I like to go back to basics and my standard Ronnie rig set up, safety clips, mono straight through and stick to that for a bit. I then work out where I may have gone wrong, but the bait is the last thing I tend to worry about, as I have the utmost confidence in the bait company where I get my bait from.

My point is really if you have absolute confidence in the bait you are using – stick with it and quality does matter especially when moving on to another water. The last thing you need to be doing is turning up with a new bait, it could be counterproductive.

Until next time

Richard

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