UK Carp & Coarse Fishing

Sf- Bait Hacks

Posted on April 21, 2019 by richardhandel

With the weather warming, meat is only going to get better on venues where it is allowed. To really make yours stand out from the crowd the GO2 Liquid Dyes are what you need
Dan White shows you how to get the most from them…

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Quick Overnighter

Posted on April 21, 2019 by richardhandel

Just had to have another go.Richard

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Trip 27 Carp Fishing – 2019

Posted on April 20, 2019 by richardhandel

At my eldest daughter’s request (honestly) she wants to come fishing on the Estate Lake over the holiday, not to fish, but just to have some Daddy time. She had taken a bit of interested in the lake since I joined and had come along to check the otter fence after the storms in early March. She had helped to get a fair few of the sticks out of the lake which had fallen in.

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We’d been for a walk around the lake the last two evenings and baited up an area where I believed I had heard the Carp topping in the night on my last trip. A fellow syndicate member had also informed me the same thing, as we are sharing information about the lake in the hope of understanding their feeding patterns quicker.

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We had a quick look about and I felt this swim would give us the best option. There were absolutely no signs of any carp, clearly, they did not like the rain. I was hoping that it would put them down and get them feeding, I hope this will be the case over tonight.

I placed my baits in a lovely hole in the weed it was nice and clear. The other off the side of the island where I had previously seen carp and it is most likely a patrol route. Both rods had large bags filled with a mixture of Catalyst & Betafin pellets, which I soak in the Betafin liquid.

Hook bait-wise, I opted for a Smokey Jack wafter with a white Go2 wafter on top and a single Smokey Jack wafter on the other rod. Both set up on Ronnie rig with lite leads to keep the noise down when I recast, as I would just be dropping the leads back in with no bags. I felt that keeping the disturbance down would help me catch another fish, once I had caught the first one. I put about 6 handfuls of 12mm Smokey and Catalyst boilies over each spot.

The rain continued until after dark and once it stopped, I had a liner on the left rod. Hopefully, it will mean that the carp had found my baited area. But that turned out to be the only action and the buzzers fell silent for the rest of the night.

We here not due home until just before noontime. I was really hoping that they feed at first light and up until mid-morning, the forecast was for sunshine today, but it was overcast first thing. They clearly loved the sunny days, would they be back on the top sunning themselves? I really hope that I would pick one up by then.

It was not to be.

Until next time.

Richard

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Sf Bait Hacks

Posted on April 19, 2019 by richardhandel

Our own Simon Willsmore details a sneaky little bait approach which has been helping him to single out the larger silver specimens recently!

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Don’t Panic or Despair

Posted on April 17, 2019 by richardhandel

With fishing and all sorts of other of life’s problems – when you are struggling to catch a carp and it appears it’s never going your way (how ever hard you try), the trick is not to panic, otherwise you can start changing all sort of things around to try and catch fish. Don’t get me wrong, things need to be tweaked all the time with fishing but when you are catching fish, you tend to do this by small degrees. When you are on a long run of blanks you can easily start to change all too much at the same time, this is a fatal mistake and will result in more blanks.

If things are going wrong and you just can’t catch, you need to analyze the big picture so you can determine where you may be going wrong.

1. Are you the only one on your lake blanking? If you’re not, you are probably doing it right and just need to pinpoint why other people are catching before you change anything.

2. Are you fishing at the right time of the day when the fish are feeding? Are the weather conditions perfect when you are on the bank?

3. Are you fishing the same old swims all the time? Could it be your favorite swim is not what it was in the past.

4. Could there be a big hatch going on each time you are there? We have all sat in a swim with carp everywhere over your bait and you don’t get a fish or even have a bleep, they are just preoccupied with natural food.

These 4 things are very important to think about before you start changing rigs, bait etc. The worst thing you can start doing is swapping rigs and bait round every few hours’s. It will not give you a true picture of whether any of them are working and you can easily start to spook the carp out of your swim with to much casting in & out.

Firstly you must not despair. This happens to all anglers, whether they tell you or not. It’s best to take note of the above 4 things and then determine if you need to change any rigs, bait. As long as you’ve not changed your rigs, checking them and using them for the correct situations, like you have done before. Why would there be a need to change them? You will have confidence in them.

Bait – as long as you are using a top quality bait and applying it correctly, as you were when you were catching fish, it’s not an issue. Change between bottom wafters and pop-ups is a perfectly normal thing to do. You should be doing this all the time anyway, as things do change.

Once you have gone over the above minefield of possibilities. Hopefully, your head will be a lot clearer and you will have worked out if you have changed or have done something to affect your fishing. It’s as simple as switching back and lastly there is just good old luck, it can be with you or not. Remember it’s only fishing and it can all change at a drop if a hat and you can have a trip of a lifetime or the last half of the season can be your best ever and the past 6 months of blanking is all forgotten and a distant memory. If all else fails, pop over to your local easy club water and bag a few 10lbers, this will certainly make a lot of difference and prove you’re doing nothing wrong, it will give you a great boost.

Hope this helps

Richard

Part Two Of Never Give Up And Despair.

As you will have read in part 1 of this, I was certainly struggling to catch a big carp or even catch regularly. So I took some time out and thought about what was going on and want to do. Well, the only option was to fish another lake, which I knew and would hopefully break that chain.

Well, the first trip on there I had 2 fish and lost one. This gave me the boost in confidence that I needed and I then was feeling much more upbeat about fishing. I was so keen again, I soon returned, well one night later and managed to bag 6 x 20 + my first UK forty and a new PB mirror. This goes to show that you should never despair as it will turn around again and you never know what’s coming your way.

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