UK Carp & Coarse Fishing

Trip 22 Carp Fishing- 2018

Posted on April 6, 2018 by richardhandel

My first night on the Airfield lake since last September and it’s so nice to be back on my favorite big old gravel pit.

It’s also nice to be able to set up all the kit by last light. Unfortunately, this lake is notoriously hard after its 6 months shut down but effort = reward and I had a good start last year, so you never know.

Ian (my friend) had done the day with no luck and I was not really sure where to go. I had a look in the middle lake and the large bottom lake. As there were a couple of cars in the top lake car park, I left them alone. It was a hard choice but as the water was more colored in this one, my choice was made, I had not even seen a sign of a fish.

However, after flicking out the Deeper I had picked up a couple of fish in the same area.

This area had a lovely feature in it. I was very lucky and found the same thing for my left-hand rod. Both rods were baited up with an FW Masala pop and a few spombs of chopped Smokey Jack boilies over the top. I was all sorted for the night. A nice rain storm was pushing through overnight and with any luck a carp or two. Fingers crossed for a dry pack up, we shall see.

Well, I had a relatively dry pack and no fish.

Until next

Richard

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Trip 21 Carp Fishing- 2018

Posted on April 4, 2018 by richardhandel

I had some more free time today – so off to the lake, I headed. With me was my Deeper Pro Plus and the tackle (just in case I spotted something interesting). I hope to be out for 5 hrs, I probably will end up fishing for part of the time.

Sure enough, I found some fish moving through the channel between the lakes and just had to give it a go for an hour or so.

All set for mapping the lake.

I map from right to left using the horizon markers that you would normally use.

I did flick the rods out in another spot but no luck today. There was a bitterly cold NE wind blowing, which never helps.

However, I did find a few nice areas.

Which will need attention this season.

Until next time

Richard

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Posted on April 3, 2018 by richardhandel

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Line Change Time

Posted on March 30, 2018 by richardhandel

Here’s a thought, when spooling up line, do you spool up two or three spools all the with the same line? If so, why? Unless you fish all your baits in the same situation, why would you need all the spools to have the same line? Unless you fish the same spots with all your rod’s – which I’m sure you don’t. For example, a distance rod requires a distance line, a margin bait would be better suited by using a fluorocarbon coated line, to enable it to be pinned down to the bottom.

If you look at my photo of my rod’s shots on the bank, you will spot that I don’t always use the same line on both rod’s.

When I spool up my reels and spare spools each time, I try and cover all the fishing situations which I will come across that year (as best as I can). This year I have gone for.