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Add plenty of salt to particle baits, especially the cooked types like Hemp, Maize, Tares, Beans, Partiblend seeds, Maple peas and Chick peas. |
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| Author: John Ralph |
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1. If you can, try to locate the fish before choosing a peg. Locating the French carp, or any possible patrolling area plays a big part of carp fishing success.
2. French carp love the taste of salty foods. As a rough guide, add one tablespoon of salt to 5 litres of dry particles.
3. Try adding chillies to some particle baits. Carp seem to love that hot "kick" from those spices. Roughly add 2 tablespoons to 5 litres of particles. This will be very affective in carp lakes.
4. If the standard carp baits like boilies don't seem to be working, try using maggots. You can fill a small PVA bag with maggots to get some free offerings out at distance. Or you could even half-fill the bag with dry groundbait to give off a cloudy attraction. (If you are concerned about maggots wriggling away or into silt try using previously frozen dead maggots.)
5. When the water is cold such as in the winter, try casting your rigs a little more frequently and target different areas in the fishing lake, in order to place a hook bait close to the fish. Cold water slows down the movements of French carp so there's less chance the fish will swim towards your bait. In the summer, you can lay traps in possible patrolling areas and wait for the carp to find the bait.
6. Use different sizes of pellets or particles in a spod mix. This helps confuse the fish, it also gives you the option to use various sizes on the hook.
7. Add high sources of vitamin C to your bait by using orange juice rather than lake water. You can also try soaking fresh boilies in orange juice, in order to give that distinct flavour and extra sugar. The French carp will notice your bait a lot more.
8. If you're worried about overfeeding the swim then use breadcrumb groundbait with just the attractants added but without all the particle baits included. this way you get all the attraction without filling the fish.
9. Whenever you can, try to stay away from using round bait because far too many French carp are caught on round baits. Try squaring up the hook bait with sissors.
10. If you're fishing a new water, try using brightly coloured bait with high attract smells. Only switch if you know there are carp in the swim and you are having no action.
11. Try to get carp competing for the bait in the fishing lake. When carp compete for food they lower their guard and are easier to catch.
12. In the winter carp try to find warmth, so try fishing the silt areas at the bottom of gravel bars.
13. Always try to camouflage your end tackle to suit the carp lake bed you're fishing on. Weight down a spod with leads, then cast it out and let it sink to the bottom, then scrap up a sample of the bottom. You can then create the end tackle to suit the same colour.
14. Always use good quality bait when fishing for big carp.
15. If you're catching fish in a certain spot then you want to place your rigs in the exact same spot every time you cast. To help do this, place some marker line or a small piece of tape on the main line once you have the rig in your preferred area.
16. Rather than throwing unused particle baits into the fishing lake at the end of the session, take them home and freeze them. Many particles such as hemp, maize, chick peas and beans can be frozen and kept, even maggots can be frozen and used for another carping session.
17. Try not to throw out too much bait at the start of a session, try the "little and often approach". Remember you cannot take out what has already gone in!
18. If fishing a pressured venue, don't add too many bright baits to your spod mix. Bright colours often spook shy carp, only add the bright colours if the neutral colours don't work.
19. In cold weather try soaking hook bait in neat liquid flavourings. These are usually much stronger helping to release attractant over a longer period.
20. To help locate the distance of the French carp in the swim, fish with tight lines and stagger the rods at various distances. If you get line bites on the rod closest to the bank then you know you're fishing to far with the other rods.
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