well after a rather frustrating couple of weeks , making boilies, failing, making boilies, blanking. Anyway I went back home with my head hung low. I learned more techniques, and I have finally found a winning formula for Commercial Carp Fishing, The method feeder.
anyway heres some pics of a seven hour session at badshot lea small pond. This was the order of the day
What a Day! probably the best days fishing i have had since i switched to Carp only!
4 fish in 5 hours on the Bank, lost 2 fish right at the end.
I had prepared my bait the day before. I went to the Local pet shop and bought my first ever sack of Vitalin Dog Food. I went for the £2.99 sack for which i got 2.5 kg of dried muesli type dog food, i read the ingredients: cooked corn, cooked soya, meat, vitamins, etc etc....general dog food type ingredients! My Spod mix was made up in a bucket and to it i added the following : 1 tin of tuna, sunflower oil, birdseed, vitalin, trout pellet powder, mixed homemade boilies, halibut pellets, soya flour, rice flour, dried milk powder.
Mix it all up. and hey presto : the best ever carp Food I have found in my years of Fishing.
Well The day started with a visit to the tackle shop, I had decided to change my usual Leadcore rig, and I had decided upon the open method feeder (Carp size) the feeder i was using was a Drennan Large tri feeder, inline, basically you just mould a huge ball of your Mix to it, chuck it out and bang! well on this day it was that simple, however i think all the changes/purchases i made contributed to my good day fishing!
So what changes did i make? well i said i was using the inline method feeder, thats what attracted the carp, helped with my lovely fishy dog foood spod mix!
I had experimented wityh Braid hooklinks in the past year, however my success was not great, but i have since discovered this was also made up of a number of factors. what i am trying to say is that carp fishing, i thinking is made up of a number of factors or ideal conditions, etc, things which contribute to you catching a fish, are the following : are the fish in your swim? is your ground bait or mix attracting the fish, is the rig tied correctly, is the hair twisted? can the fish feel the line in the water? are the fish even feeding? are they on they surface or on the bottom.
There are a whole heap more factors which i can think off, including the moon phases, water temperature, air pressure and much more which go along way to helping an Angler Land that Fish of his dreams! The long and the short of it, is that, there is an awful lot of things which need to be in place or in allignment for the days Fishing to be a success.
Once you have grasped the basics, Fishing will become alot easier. I would say Finding the Fish is priority number 1, no point fishing in a swim for four days, if you havent seen any fish movements! MOVE its only a tent and some rods!!!
I have also learned DO NO BE AFRAID TO TRY NEW TECHNIQUES, there are literally tens, probably hundreds of ways to fish, rigs to fish, techniques from Float fishing, method feed, surface fishing, zig rigs, many more , and i do mean many! If one way isnt working, and in my case its probably the technique everyone else is using, do not be afriad to try a sifferent rig or hook, or hair length, or bait...the combinations are seemingly endless, so KEEP IT SIMPLE, simple works best.
I arrived at the venue, after my visit to the tackle shop, I had purchased, size 6 hooks by FOX b1b hook, they looked huge BUT they WORK!!! i ALso changed my hooklinks, from stiff rig, to sinking braid, a short 6 inch hooklink, a longer hair, and a blowback rig witha small rig ring causing some serious damage!
the first fish came after maybe 4 balls of bait had been thrown into the margin, just under a overhanging tree, maybe 2m from the bank.
I had seen 2 carp in the swim just siting on the surface, so this was the swim for me!
It seemed to have paid off this, walking around, before i got the kit out the car, and its definiteley something i think i will try at every future venue, WALK around FIRST, CARP SPOTTING.....SEE CARP CATCH CARP!
dont just turn up at the closest swim to the Car, thats just LAzy and you deserve not to catch. Carp fishing is about being intelligent and 1 step ahead of these very intelligent creatures.
1st Carp = 7lb common
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p125/flexiblerecords/ANGLING/Nicks%20Fishing%20Blog/db73fdce.jpg
anyway heres some pics of a seven hour session at badshot lea small pond. This was the order of the day
What a Day! probably the best days fishing i have had since i switched to Carp only!
4 fish in 5 hours on the Bank, lost 2 fish right at the end.
I had prepared my bait the day before. I went to the Local pet shop and bought my first ever sack of Vitalin Dog Food. I went for the £2.99 sack for which i got 2.5 kg of dried muesli type dog food, i read the ingredients: cooked corn, cooked soya, meat, vitamins, etc etc....general dog food type ingredients! My Spod mix was made up in a bucket and to it i added the following : 1 tin of tuna, sunflower oil, birdseed, vitalin, trout pellet powder, mixed homemade boilies, halibut pellets, soya flour, rice flour, dried milk powder.
Mix it all up. and hey presto : the best ever carp Food I have found in my years of Fishing.
Well The day started with a visit to the tackle shop, I had decided to change my usual Leadcore rig, and I had decided upon the open method feeder (Carp size) the feeder i was using was a Drennan Large tri feeder, inline, basically you just mould a huge ball of your Mix to it, chuck it out and bang! well on this day it was that simple, however i think all the changes/purchases i made contributed to my good day fishing!
So what changes did i make? well i said i was using the inline method feeder, thats what attracted the carp, helped with my lovely fishy dog foood spod mix!
I had experimented wityh Braid hooklinks in the past year, however my success was not great, but i have since discovered this was also made up of a number of factors. what i am trying to say is that carp fishing, i thinking is made up of a number of factors or ideal conditions, etc, things which contribute to you catching a fish, are the following : are the fish in your swim? is your ground bait or mix attracting the fish, is the rig tied correctly, is the hair twisted? can the fish feel the line in the water? are the fish even feeding? are they on they surface or on the bottom.
There are a whole heap more factors which i can think off, including the moon phases, water temperature, air pressure and much more which go along way to helping an Angler Land that Fish of his dreams! The long and the short of it, is that, there is an awful lot of things which need to be in place or in allignment for the days Fishing to be a success.
Once you have grasped the basics, Fishing will become alot easier. I would say Finding the Fish is priority number 1, no point fishing in a swim for four days, if you havent seen any fish movements! MOVE its only a tent and some rods!!!
I have also learned DO NO BE AFRAID TO TRY NEW TECHNIQUES, there are literally tens, probably hundreds of ways to fish, rigs to fish, techniques from Float fishing, method feed, surface fishing, zig rigs, many more , and i do mean many! If one way isnt working, and in my case its probably the technique everyone else is using, do not be afriad to try a sifferent rig or hook, or hair length, or bait...the combinations are seemingly endless, so KEEP IT SIMPLE, simple works best.
I arrived at the venue, after my visit to the tackle shop, I had purchased, size 6 hooks by FOX b1b hook, they looked huge BUT they WORK!!! i ALso changed my hooklinks, from stiff rig, to sinking braid, a short 6 inch hooklink, a longer hair, and a blowback rig witha small rig ring causing some serious damage!
the first fish came after maybe 4 balls of bait had been thrown into the margin, just under a overhanging tree, maybe 2m from the bank.
I had seen 2 carp in the swim just siting on the surface, so this was the swim for me!
It seemed to have paid off this, walking around, before i got the kit out the car, and its definiteley something i think i will try at every future venue, WALK around FIRST, CARP SPOTTING.....SEE CARP CATCH CARP!
dont just turn up at the closest swim to the Car, thats just LAzy and you deserve not to catch. Carp fishing is about being intelligent and 1 step ahead of these very intelligent creatures.
1st Carp = 7lb common
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p125/flexiblerecords/ANGLING/Nicks%20Fishing%20Blog/db73fdce.jpg
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