Another great feature of the Deeper is the ability to view your data that you have mapped out, either on your own personal computer or tablet, on the Lakebook map page.
You can rename each download, by clicking on the Info button and highlighting the recording you wish to rename.
You have the ability to view the full record of your mapping as one big map or the individual recordings you made if each swim.
On the individual recording, you can access the sonar feature of each area you have mapped.
You also have the ability to measure the distance to your favourite spot. This can be done using map or satellite mode.
I find the satellite mode quite helpful as you can find your horizon markers.
You can access the depths as well.
You will need to set your Deeper to shore mode and create an account on the lake bed page. https://maps.deepersonar.com
I hope you found this very helpful in your Deeper journey.
I had a lucky call from the wife this afternoon, saying she had to pick up a workmate in the morning and didn’t need to go to work until after 9 am! As this is after school run time and would I like to fish tonight? There would be no need to come home until before school collection time at 3pm the next day. Well, I jumped at the chance, quickly sorted my kit out and once she was home, I was on my way. When I arrived there were only 2-day anglers fishing and they were all in day swims.
As my favorite swim was free and the wind was pushing from the south, there was no other choice. My Deeper lake book map had certainly paid off the other night and the spot was looking good.
The spomb was still clipped up from my last trip (which was a help). I got about 10 Spombs of a mixture of SF tiger & hemp Particle, a mixture of the pellets I have been playing with and some catalyst boilies all out there. I then did the rods with a mixture of the same in small bags with 15mm catalyst Wafters on both and to my amazement, the first take came about 2130 to the left-hand rod (again) and after a very hard fight, I had a nice 22lb common sitting in the Nsr 50.
22lb Common
Not a bad start, I was feeling very happy with myself after throughs hard months.
The second take came on at 2330, around the same time as my first take the other night. As I was playing the fish, the other rod pulled up and then slowly dropped down, after another good fight the next fish was in the Nsr 50. I picked up the other rod, unfortunately with no fish on but the rig was in a right mess, the fish had managed to shed the hook.
22 lb Mirror
The fish in the Nsr turned out to be another 22lber on the dot. I’m glad I use digital scales and a zero them every time otherwise I would have thought I was seeing things.
I got both rods back out there again and settled back on my bedchair, thinking this is more like it.
This is turning into one of them trips to remember. Well in fact it has. My next take came sometime around 0045 and it was a pretty good fight. I avoided the tree to my right and the fish slipped over the cord of the Nsr very easily. When I looked in the net, oh wow now that’s a lump and when I lifted it out the water, oh boy. After three times of checking the weight of the sling and zeroing the scales again, I settled on a weight of 40lb 1oz and the joy filled the air.
40-1 Mirror
I was well over the moon and this had been a long time coming. No sooner than that fish was back in the water, my right hand rod was away and with an amazing battle this time another fish was in the net and ready for some snaps.
22.12 common
This one was like a torpedo, which was why I had much difficulty getting it in the net. With both rod’s back out, it was time to spomb some more bait out to keep them in the area. Not sure if I will get any sleep tonight, it’s just after 0200 but I don’t care – I’ve just had a 40lber and a new PB.
I think the next run was about 0245, it was a very hard fight avoiding the overhanging tree to my right. Which unfortunately resulted in me picking up the right-hand rods back lead, oh boy but the fight was soon done and a lovely 29.6oz common was in the net.
29.12 Common
The next take came along at about 0340 with another nice common gracing the net.
24.11 Common
There was a break in action until about 7am, which gave me the chance to a little bit of sleep until the next run arrived. I also took all the rod’s out again the fish kitted left under and around the tree.
24.2 Common
With the rods back out, I topped up the swim with a few more Spombs of the particle mix, I was low on boilies and pellet, so I had only for bags now. As I really needed to use them as I was fishing weed, there was an amazing amount of weed floating around, (which was partly due to me and the rest due to the carp ripping up the bottom), there were still signs if fish, so you never know. The sun was very much up and on full blast.
Well, folks that was it and what a night it was. I’m not going to forget that for some time to come.
Think the pictures are all in the right place, does get a bit hard with these common carp.
This part of fishing has bugged me for oh so many years. I don’t understand, why it’s not possible to be happy with our fellow angler’s when they catch a fish? At the end of the day, we are all on the bank to achieve one thing and that’s to get the fish on the bank. Also, a PB every so often would be nice. So why do people get jealous of each other’s achievements? We should all be on the same side and learn from each other every time someone lands a fish, regardless of its type. Something can always be learnt from this and used by yourself for future reference. Why do anglers feel the need to lie and backstab each other to get their fellow angler removed from a club? Just because they have caught a load of fish is a complete mystery to me. In most cases, the person would move on in time to another venue. So why not learn from these people? You can help yourself to the information they can prove before they move on. You could be the person catching all the fish. People just push them away and carry on wondering why they can’t catch until the next person comes along and does the same as the previous angler. They will repeat the same thing over again. Observation and information is a very important part of any type of fishing and should be regarded as priceless, the more knowledge we get, the better we get at our chosen sport/hobby.
So, next time you see another angler catch a fish, go and say well done and he/she may just pass on some virtual information which could well help you catch your next PB.
A friend of mine has suggested that it would be a help to put together a beginners guide to carp fishing terminology. As a help to newcomers to the sport and I will also be doing beginner’s guide to other parts of carp fishing e.g. rigs, marker setups, Spod etc.
I hope this will help all you budding carp anglers when you pick up a magazine to understand what you are being told.
Chod – Is the term used to describe the stuff on the bottom of the lake bed (decaying leaf matter) hence the rig was born from this to counteract this problem.
Wraps – The number of times you wrap the line around your marker sticks, to determine the distance you a fishing our from the bank.
Fizzing – This is when you get a huge patch of tiny bubbles coming up over a large area. This is where the fishing is digging on the bottom and creating a fizzing on the surface of the lake.
Bubbles – This is when you get bubbles popping up to the surface and then moving off, as the fish is feeding on the bottom.
Particles – The terminology used for cooked beans, peas, pulses, seed etc.
Loaded up – you have loaded up the line on your reels, you also load up the rod, when casting. This is the point where your rods are at the best point to cast out.
This is an odd topic. Over the many years, I have spent fishing, I have asked myself this many times when sitting up in the same swim each week. I am 100% confident the fish are close by or will pass through my swim in the time I will be there. So, why bother with all this walking around looking for them. The conclusion I have come to (for myself), it depends on the circumstances of your fishing, I feel. How dedicated are you to catching fish on that particular day? This can be affected by the stresses of life or are you just looking for a break from it all.
I have found over the years, this can certainly play a key factor in some of my fishing trips. I think it’s a very good thing and it can help your fishing for future trips. You just need to make sure this doesn’t become the normal route. The car park swim is the best example of this on most lakes. Oddly enough in the past ten years, these have become the best swim on the lake. Probably because they have been ignored in the previous twenty! On one particular lake, I avoided this swim for some time, until one day I had no option. I had seen fish, it just felt right and that swim went on to produce some stunning fish for me.
Even when my fishing is going very well, I still find that I fish the same swim, my favourite margin spots. If you read all my blogs, it has not done me very well this year so far. I sat there the other day and started to think about this and then thought I should do a blog – Why I was in the swim again?
I personally feel that out of all the little margin spots on this lake (and along the day bank), this swim gives me the best chances of banking a big lump. So far over the past couple of years, my biggest is a 34 lber. The swim offers the perfect opportunity as I am hidden behind the bushes.
I drop my bait the other side of the Beech leaves and sit back. There is also plenty of room to play the fish once you have them under control and under your rod tips. All the other swims are very tiny or very open with you sitting in full view of passing fish. I did move around before on my quick one-rod trip. It became clear to me that the fish were moving freely up and down this bank and they would pass this swim every time. It’s more or less in the middle of this bank and the other thing I was worried about was the disturbance of catching a fish. However, I realised one day that a carp 20 or 30 yards down the bank would never know and I soon found myself catching two fish, within my four-hour fishing window, until this year when all have to list so far is one.
I still see the fish moving along this bank, so why change spot? This is the big question I am facing currently and the answer this time was move on. This is a lesson learnt for the future.
