UK Carp & Coarse Fishing

Trip No 95 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on December 22, 2015 by richardhandel

Now, my original plan for this morning was and early start. As lucky me, the Mrs’ is starting late today and can to the kids to school. I was going to do a day pike fishing on the river. However, with all that carp activity the other night, I felt I had no other option than give it another go carp fishing. I know I do need to start pike fishing soon. I would like to get a PB pike this year, may have to draw a line in the sand soon and then move onto the river, as it’s been a good 4 months since I was last there, after the carp & barbel.

Back in this swim until 10 ish or until I catch a carp (which ever come first) and then I will move down to the other swim I normally fish. There are about 5 day swims along this bank, I just fancy these two a bit more than the rest.

Unfortunately 10am came first and a move was made to my other favourite swim along this bank.

Let’s hope the sunshine helps.

Looking very nice out here today.

What can I say? Well, I have completely moved away from the snaggy margin bank as don’t think the fish are there.

That looks better, a good view of the lake and a bit of fish spotting I hope.

With all my best efforts in moving around today, it turned into another blank on the score board.

Till next time
Richard

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Trip No 94 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on December 20, 2015 by richardhandel

With the weather so perfect today and it still being so mild. I had no option but to go out carp fishing on my Sunday night out. I can’t believe it’s still so mild and Christmas is just around the corner.

After a walk round and a chat with the other angler’s on the lake. I was told that there had been no fish out all weekend and the going was still very hard. As I had not been down since my last Sunday night session, I was not completely sure where to go – back in the same swim as before (as no one had fished in there for the last two nights) or there was the point swim which was free, it had produced fish for me before. It would be a rough night with the wind picking up again but it did feel good over there. However, I had some thinking to do, there had been a lot of bait put in other areas of the lake.

For the first few hours, I was going to single hook bait it until I had come up with a plan for the night.

Questions
Single hook bait
Margins
Open water
Bait up or not
Groundbait

Some thinking was needed.

The decision had been made, I was going to stick with the single hook baits tonight, just out of interest, as there will be a good amount of bait leftover from the weekend angler’s and I plan to keep my ears open all night and then bait up before I leave, as I will be back Tuesday for the day and hopefully if I fish here I will be in the right area.

I was awake quite a bit of the night, listening to a few fish topping in my area. Which is around 2 acres and the fish where very active. This kept me awake with anticipation, despite all these crashes, the trip out was a complete blank. However, the information about where the fish had been active, so not a complete waste of time. Still not very happy about another blank, at least I learnt something, so I should not complain.

Till next time
Richard

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Trip No 93 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on December 18, 2015 by richardhandel

I am out for another Sunday night session, this will be my only trip of the week. As I have the dentist & Nativities to go to – I am a bit stuck for time.

I have picked a bay area, that is a bit sheltered from the strong and fresh S/W wind as I don’t feel confident that the carp will be on the full front of the wind. This is the same swim I fished last session and spotted a fish, when I left on Friday afternoon, there where a few people fishing the main part of the lake. I arrived a bit earlier then normal, hoping for a chat with them but the complex was empty. Good or bad sign? I will never know. Anyway, with all that bait going in, in that area and being by far the coldest area of the lake, I felt this had to be my best option.

The right hand rod was cast nicely up against some overhanging trees, I was able to walk round and bait up easily over the top with chopped poloni boilies with a couple of groundbait balls.

The other rod was flicked out with a string on, for the first 3 hour’s as I wanted to watch the water for any fishy signs. By 1530, it was time to get the marker rod out and do some feature searching and I found a night bar that come up a foot. It was in between two nice silt bed’s and this was the area I finally settled for. There was also a nice shelf down to the 11ft margin, this I will save for later on in the Winter. I spombed out five balls of groundbait and poloni boilies, which were all chopped up. I sat back, got the tea on and settled into those long Winter nights.

The night passed with a couple of bream and two carp crashing nearby and a very hopefull me thing it’s going to go off soon. But by 0530, I was starting to wonder if it would, it had been a warm night and the wind was dying down a lot.

Unfortunately, reel in time came to fast and with no carp on the bank, I was off home and not out until next Sunday.

Till next time
Richard

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Trip No 92 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on December 16, 2015 by richardhandel

Today I have moved round to a large bay area, after having a bit of a rethink last night. There is a warm S/W wind blowing and this area being on the back of the N/W wind that was blowing, the fish could be hold up here.

Two rod’s as well today (makes a pleasant change), I have flicked one to the right of me along a nice tree lined margin.

And catapulted a couple of pouch full’s of chopped poloni boilies in the area. I like to spread my bait about a bit, get the fish moving around looking.

The other rod is going to be used as a roving rod, hopefully when I spot some fish. In the meantime, I have cast across the bay to the other margins.

After about an hour, I spotted my first carp and reeled in and put a small Godman Pva mesh bag on and flicked it into the area where the fish showed itself.

Unfortunately, this trip resulted in another blank but seeing a fish top was good news and hopefully a pointer to where to fish Sunday night.

Till next time
Richard

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Trip No 91 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on December 14, 2015 by richardhandel

Today I am out for another short session along the tree lined margin bank and today the sun is out for the first time in a while. Which has put a little more confidence into this trip. However, the 3 guys who have just done the last 2 nights here, have blanked. This is starting to show that the fish may well be slowing down, some what.

Just the one rod as normal, with a couple of handfuls of chopped up Bait-tech Poloni Boilies and a godman angling mesh bag filled with my new winter mix (which I am playing around with).

As 1330 approaches, I am starting to scratch my head a bit, as this is my third trip in a row where I have blanked along this bank. A bit of a rethinking is needed I feel. I have a week from fishing soon, this may or may not help the rethinking. Whilst the kid’s are off school for the Christmas I will not get any trips out, so perhaps Pike fishing may be getting closer.

The freezer is stocked up with dead baits and I have a few bottles of Bait-tech Predator Plus all set.

I am out this coming Sunday for the night and at the moment with no fish showing, I’m a bit lost on where the fish may be. Perhaps tomorrow’s trip and a chat with some Syndicate members on Sunday morning will throw up some options.

Unfortunately another trip, turned out to be a blank, definitely slowly down.

Till next time
Richard

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