Effort Equals Reward

There are so many various ways of catching carp that we often find ourselves confined to a few proven methods or tactics during our careers as carp anglers. All of which catch carp and have done so in the past. It is always a roll of the dice in an attempt to find out which tactic or method is the better one on any given day.

I decided to employ the little and often baiting up scheme by baiting up a handful or two of bait every day for a week. On Friday on my arrival at the lake I went out on the boat to look for any signs of fish. Being mid winter the water is now gin clear and in 6ft of water you are able to see the everything on the lake bottom. It was not long before I saw dust clouds formed on the bottom as the silt is stirred up by carp being spooked off.

Sure that carp are in my swim, I hurriedly baited the rigs and got all three rods out on the likely areas of where I thought the carp would be. Thirty minutes later and the middle rod screamed off. Lifting the rod I could immediately feel it was a good fish. The fish came in without much difficulty until under the rod tip when it put up a decent scrap. Seeing the fish in gin clear water in the late afternoon is carp fishing for me is all about. It is one thing catching these big fish but it is something else being able to see them in the clear water.

31lb 8oz

As I lifted the fish out of the water I could feel it was decent. The fish was tricked using a Monster Tigernut pop up fished on a hinge stiff rig with half a hand of growlers over the top.

I went on to have a further three runs and lost all three due to a snag, a hookpull and being cut off. Bitterly disappointed to lose so many fish, however this fish made me forget all about that.

Until next time. Tight Lines.