UK Carp & Coarse Fishing

Trip 81 Carp Fishing – 2019

Posted on December 16, 2019 by richardhandel

Location – School Lake

Hours Fished – 5hrs

With another rubbish rainy day for gardening, it was perfect for a spot of fishing (before the pressure goes sky high over the weekend). It’s a great opportunity to get back on the School Lake and this time try something different. I’ve baited a lot more than I have been doing and also off the pads a bit. I’m convinced the bigger carp will feel the pressure of everyone casting into the pads and I’m hoping as this is a very popular venue in the Summer months. There will likely be a fair bit of bait accurately going in and will fall short (where no-one fishes) and the bigger carp will feel a lot safer feeding there.

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They will be less active, but hopefully bigger carp – 20+ I’m am aiming for! Sticking with the same color & flavor pop up (being PPS & Pineapple N-Butyric acid) and large PVA bag filled with Catalyst pellets soaked in the syrup.

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Which smells fantastic. I will just have to be patient and see how it pans out. There has been a fair few Carp showing along the far margin and I have decided that if by 1230 I’ve seen no action, I will move the right-hand rod closer in and see what happens. Most of the carp showing, have been to my left and right, maybe the bait application, pushed them away and they could well drift back later.

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Well that didn’t take long after moving a rod close to the dead pads and the far bank. I have only switched one over, which now tells me there are fish in the area and hopefully a bigger one off the pads more and over my baiting area. I’ve had a liner that is very positive on the left rod.

For an hour and a bit I really thought the sun was coming out, but alas it’s pouring down again.

With only twenty minutes left on the pack up clock, it certainly looks like just 1 Carp today and this was due to the location change. I was really hoping the baited spot would produce, not going to give up on that one and will have the Deeper next time. It’s time to get mapping the lake as the pads have mostly gone. I will stick some screenshots of my findings.

Until next time

Richard

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Quick Overnighter Time

Posted on December 15, 2019 by richardhandel

Lovely the orange glow from the sun under the clouds, reflecting off the flooded water meadows behind me.Richard

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Cracking Time

Posted on December 15, 2019 by richardhandel

Another cracking few hour’s on the School lake last week, spread over two morning.

Spotted Fin Pink Pepper Squid working well over a bed of 8mm Catalyst boilies.

Richard

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Posted on December 14, 2019 by richardhandel

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Trip 80 Carp Fishing – 2019

Posted on December 14, 2019 by richardhandel

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Location – School Lake

Hours Fished – 5hrs

I’m out for my normal Monday trip, this time in the rain, I’m interested in how the rain affects the Carp in any way. I was hoping for a peg I had fished before, I’d seen bigger Carp topping off the front of the pads. I was planning on catapulting a load of 12mm Catalyst boilies and fishing PVA bags filled with Catalyst pellets soaked in the syrup, this makes them all sticky and smells amazing.

It was not long before my first take and a small Mirror was in the net.

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That’s a nice start and with another bag back on the spot, that one was soon away again! With what I hoped felt like a better Carp. Once it was under my top tip, it did look a lot bigger and that was soon in the net. I thought I better weigh this one and it turned the dial round to 16lbs 12oz.

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Happy with that. I did up another bag and flicked it across to the spot. I’d now put a loaded of boilies; well, 4 big catapults full and 3 medium-sized bags. I know it sounds crazy but I didn’t want to over bait the area.

It was just after noon time when I had my third take of the day. This time on the right-hand rod, I’d been watching the line twitch a few times over the past 30 minutes and I was sure it would finally rattle off.

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Another one of the smaller residents, but I’m sure when Winter arrives these will slow down and the bigger residents will appear.

The same rod was off again within minutes of getting the bait back out there – I’d not even finished sticking my 12mm out there before the rod was off!

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15lb 1oz

Second double of the trip. The sun may even poke its head out from behind the clouds, it’s looking promising. With just under 2 hours of fishing time to go, I’m very hopeful of another one or two Carp.

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The next take was also to the right-hand rod and also on the PPS. I was thinking there must be an issue with the other rod, after another nice battle fish 5 was in the net.

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Another nice Common, but this one was a lot bigger, time to check the left-hand rod and sure enough, it was hooked up on a stick. With that removed and a fresh Pineapple Nbutyric acid pop upon, that was also back out there and with 30 minutes to go, we shall see.