The Carpy Couple, Chasing Carp: April 2017

Wednesday, 26 April 2017

Fishing In Low Light

Evening Succes

How to start this blog, let's start with preparation.

1 It's a good idea to know the lake you are fishing so you are not working blind.

2 It's a good idea to know where the gravel spots are and silt patches so you know how many wraps it is to the snags and features around the lake.

This is all very important as accuracy is key to catching carp in low visibility weather, if it is early morning or the dusk of the evening.

Picking out a marker on the horizon that you can aim for of a night time, knowing your wraps and yards to your target areas, so when you clip up you know you are hitting the same spots each time and that your rigs are really fishing and working for you. Clipping up also means you will be fishing safely. The last thing you want to do is be cracking off on snags and leaving trails of line through the water that fish may get tethered to.

I would also say that in the spring and autumn although the weather can be warm during the day, of a night the temperature can drop quite a bit so make sure to have warm clothing so you can stay comfortable. I have been caught out on a few occasions when it has turned really cold, it's not nice.

Lighting is also important as we are not great at seeing in the night, although I try not to use unless it's needed for instance unhooking fish, landing them and off course tying fresh rigs if needed and attaching bait to the chosen rigs I 'm using.

All i have spoken about is pretty easy to do when put in to practice, and Im sure this all put together has landed me more fish and is really simple to do. I very rarely loose tackle on snags and I have caught plenty of fish using these simple steps.

This is a nice common caught using these methods just the other night.

Tight/Slack lines and WET NETS

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Monday, 24 April 2017

The Bunkers 2 Short Session Success

THE JUGGLING GAME

Being a mum to five beautiful kids, means myself and Lloyd find it hard to get out on the bank for long sessions sometimes. So quite often we find our self-taking it in turns, to go on short sessions to get our fishing fix. Longer sessions take a bit more planning. We often find our self-doing these solo.

Long or short sessions can both work out and be productive, once you get to know the lake you are planning on fishing. You can put your knowledge into action; does the lake respond well to prebaiting, but then you have to hope someone else won't be fishing over your hard-earned money when you go back to put your plan into action. Or are you planning on fishing a big pit with a low stock of fish... then for this I would say it's not a good idea to do a short session on these types of waters, as they need more planning and preparation. Although that does not mean to say you won't catch, you may get lucky!

My preferred type of lake for a short session is a small sized lake with plenty of features to aim for, somewhere I can walk around and target fish I can see, this is called stalking. When stalking it's best to travel light so you are mobile and can move freely, with ease on to showing fish.

Quite often when travelling light, all I will take is a large beanie matt, a small amount of terminal tackle, my boilie bag for bait, this also doubles up as storage for my terminal tackle, bite alarms, and a catapult. Once all packed this is easy to chuck over my shoulder, the beanie matt also doubles up as storage as when folded in half I can fit my net, landing pole, retainer and weigh sling down the middle, I always wear a pair of polarised sunglasses as well, whatever the weather this helps take the glare off the water, which allows me to see more clearly and spot things I would miss without them.

Whilst on short sessions a lot of walking and looking can be involved, finding features and fish is a must to be successful, I will quite often find fish sitting around snags or feeding on silt or gravel patches. If you commit bait to an area dont just sit back and wait, and hope the bait will bring them into you, be prepared to move on to fish. Stay mobile, as sitting on bait does not always pay off, it can quite often lead to a blank on a short session out on the bank.

Shorter rods and smaller reels can help with casting to spots in smaller and tighter swims. It can quite often give you an edge over anglers that are unable to fish these swims if they are using heavier tackle. When all that I have spoken about is put into practice the results can well outweigh the effort put into snaring one of these beauties.

Mid double from a short session couple of nights ago. As RBA said, "my smile say's it all".

I do love a beautiful paddle look at them coluors.

A mid double mirror from back in March taken on a session.

Every one has there own ways of fishing these are the methods I have learned and find work for me, There are no set in stone rules to carp fishing. At the end of the day they do what they want and some days can be harder than other days.

Tight/Slack lines and WET NETS speak soon.

xXx

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Tuesday, 18 April 2017

The Bunkers (Couple Of Hours Stalking)

Common At The Snags

Its been nearly a week since I last got out to fish, so needed my fix! snuck out for a couple of hours this afternoon. If I was to catch within the time span I had then I would have to be able to be mobile to move freely around the lake and on to carp. I fished light... rod, mat, net, a small amount of bait and tackle...I was off! it was all that I needed even left the bite alarms at home.

I walked around the lake looking and listening for carp. they weren't giving themselves away easy. so I started to lightly bait a few snaggy areas, I watched the water intently at these spots, to my joy I saw a spot at the snags that looked promising as the water was clouded up and I could no longer see the bait I had put in about 20 to 30 minutes prior.

I then re-baited the area with a small scattering of broken boilies and crumb.

I slowly lowered the blow back combi rig with a snowman bait mounted to the hair, the bait I used was Spicy Krill topped with Roasted Nut pop up, onto the light scattering of bait where it had previously been clouded up. I love this type of free fishing, crouching next to a 10ft rod just waiting for that bite, you have to be quick though as fishing locked up and in a snaggy area.

within 10 minutes I was off the mark with the rod getting pulled in and me getting a booty lunging forward to grab it, the carp had made it under some fallen branches so I edged the rod tip down into the water, slowly applied pressure and the carp turned its head and came towards me, she was out the snags but I was far from home and dry as she was angry! I couldn't allow her to take line of the clutch as there was a good chance she would head for another snag, so used my back wind instead so all the time she thought she was gaining line I was easing her back and wearing her down, letting her take a back turn off line or two every now and then. after about 5 or so minuits she came to the surface and was ready for the net.

Waiting patiently for the take

Nailed it combi rig, middle bottom lip.

And here she is

look at the paddle on this baby

WET NETS

xXx
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Sunday, 16 April 2017

About Us

Well, what can I say, it all started when we were about 14, we became best friends. Since then 19 years on we have 5 beautiful children and a passion for carp fishing. we decided to start up blogging to share with you guys our passion and journey throughout. I'm sure there will be some highs and lows, blanks and red letter days, we will write and show all. let's start it from now as its always best to look forward!

I'm Lloyd