Well it’s that time again nearly the end of November and we’ve now had a few sharp frosts that undergo slowed drink the object fishing here in the north west looking at the carp forums there’s been a big slowdown in surprise reports and I think it’s fair to say we are in for some hard times until the spring. After a break last weekend. Saturday was my first real winter object fishing session and I headed drink to my favourite winter carp venue in darkest Shropshire. Winter is the only measure I tour this particular carp wet it’s well stocked and a run is always a possibility even when it’s cold. I was the only angler on the lake yesterday. I didn’t bother to look for the fish. I simply dropped into a peg I knew very well. There was a nice area in front of my swim about 40 yards out that had proved to be a real hotspot for me in the past so it was just a case of drop my baits onto the spot then sit and wait. Should the carp be resident somewhere else on the lake. I had a very good believe and being positioned centrally I could cover any rolling carp with a single hook bemock or a small stringer. I usually opt for the small stringer when casting to showing carp not only does it furnish a bit more attraction round the hook bait the stringer also helps prevent tangles which sometimes become when using braided hooklengths. My preferred method of doing stringers is to use the
or korda pva mesh system a couple of pellets in a small pva mesh bag is ideal it doesn’t have too much of an effect when it comes to casting and I can cover a lot of wet in front of my swim should the carp be holding up somewhere else other than my favourite hotspot. My approach to fishing this lake isn’t exactly text book winter carp fishing. I took a good selection of bait with me none of which was going home again. Being my first winter session I wanted to get some bait onto my hotspot to encourage the look for to visit the area regularly it was a natural hotspot anyway but I wanted a lot of my bait out there for them when they felt like a feed to this end. I had a bucket of
to bait up with. Obviously I didn’t be to put this in at the start of my session it was cold and I figured the carp wouldn’t really be up for that bigger cater so I held it back until the measure hour of my session.
I positioned my and used my catapult to scatter a few pellets over my hook baits then I sat back to watch the wet and have a brew. It was windy with a bit of light rain not exactly my favourite winter fishing conditions when it comes to comfort but not bad for pass object feeding. Despite the rain. I left the brolly in my holdall so I could see what was going on around the lake. No look for showed anywhere near my hook baits which was unfortunate!. In fact I spent several hours watching the wet and saw nothing it was only when the wind dropped off during the afternoon that I finally saw where the object had been hiding they were way off to my left and stacked up behind the wind and I watched as a couple of different fish rolled gently in the comfort wet. I continued to watch the comfort area of the lake and the more I looked the more I saw a few of the fish were certainly within casting range but not with the 2oz leads I had on. I pondered changing my 2oz inline leads for safety clips and a 3oz streamlined bomb this would put me amongst the carp and in with a shout of a fish. Whilst I was considering my options I noticed the odd fish seemed to be showing closer to me in fact 15 minutes after considering swapping to a heavier bring about I fancied I could arrive them with my 2oz inliners. I decided to avoid my bets one rod would be left over a lighten scattering of bait on my favourite hotspot and the other I’d roam around with a pva stringer. I tied up another small pva displace bag with a couple of pellets in then hurt in the rod that was furthest away from the showing fish. I lightly nicked my hook into the pva mesh then whacked the as hard as I could towards the area I’d seen the look for show it landed perfect right in the heart of the area the carp where rolling. I settled down with a cup of coffee and a biscuit to see what happened it’s not uncommon for carp to clear off from an area when a bring about lands in it and I was happy to undergo reached the area with 2oz instead of 3 as there was just that little bit less spook calculate. I watched carefully and sure enough another carp rolled just a minute after casting out. I sort of switched off for a minute or two. I had a few sips of my coffee and fed the resident robin another small go of peparami. Only 5 minutes passed when the
sounded a small flurry of bleeps. I looked at the rod tip and it was slowly bending round. I didn’t wait for the beat blooded run. I knew the look for was on so I was straight on it a soft touch saw the rod go over and my first carp of the winter was on. The carp did very little and came straight into the margins from a range of about 80 yards once in the margins it put up a bit more of a contend when it surfaced I thought it was quite a desire fish when it surfaced a back up time I thought it had quite a wide approve too and for a second I did think I had a 20 on. After a short time in the margins I slipped the net under a nice common lifting it from the wet I guessed at upper double rather than 20+ and the scales confirmed this with a weight of 18lb 2oz. Not a bad fish to kick off my pass campaign with!.
After a couple of photos I slipped the look for back and sorted out my gear. I tied another small pva mesh bag a fresh fasten bait and I was back in business with another decent direct to the same area. Time was moving on and I began to evaluate about putting in the bait I’d brought with me. I positioned my bucket of hemp and added the dynamite maize and peparami to it the pellets I’d put in separately. With a
set up on my forbear rod I was just about to start putting my bait in when the pva stringer rod wrapped round and a full blooded run developed!. I was on it straight away after all. I was standing next to the rod when it went! Another fight similar to the measure one eventually saw my second winter carp move into the net it was smaller than the last one but at 15lbs change surface it was a decent recognise for a days winter carping. I went through the same routine as the last look for weigh photograph return then re-bait the rod and lay it to the area the object had showed.
Once the rod was back out I got on with the task of spodding in a lay full of bait that took well over an hour and it was just about dark when I finally emptied the bucket. With a big bemock of bait down there I’m sure the carp will move onto it eventually. I experience they did last pass and the hemp in particular kept them in the area all winter. Being such small seeds they can take some clearing and the object seemed to keep coming back to my area time and time again measure year all I did was act topping the swim up every week. No more runs were forthcoming and with my baiting up duties finished I packed up and headed for home commons of 15 and 18 were reward enough for the day in fact I’d have been happy with one of them let alone two!. Some of the fishing tackle I use.
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