Gary & Daniel:

Me and my son are planning on fishing your lake in October next year, like to ask a bit of advice on a few things. What mainline would you recommend using and do you use tubing?  I generally use leadcore but its not allowed on your fishery.

My rigs generally use your bolt rig components with 9/10″ hook links, with a snowman type bait. What set up do you believe works the best out there?

I am not the best long distance caster, happier fishing 70/90 yards range. I plan to do some work on this year to improve this. Are there any swims that I should give a miss as they generally fish better at the 100 + yards range?

I hope to get 2 swims together with my son; he’s a better caster than me. Are there any 2 swims together that you believe offer the best chance of landing a few, I know that you will probably say that all the swims fish well, but just asking your own opinion.

We have fancied fishing your lake for a few years as the water looks great, hope to be there next year. All the best.

Danny:

Dear Gary & Daniel

I would recommend a casting mainline like Adrenaline in 15lb with no shock leader; you will be able to cast that further than anything else. I have just come back from an October trip and I feel you need to fish at 100 yards plus after the middle of October. The fish do move a little further out at this time of year and stay there for the winter.

The swims you fish shorter are Big Southerly and The Beech, both are best at 70-90 yards at any time of year. The corner swims are a good bet but only if the wind is in their favour.

The swims that are really close are The Stock Pond, Pole Position and Alcatraz, and on the other side The Pink and The Stink, you can also double up in The Alamo and The Beech and The Tree Line are not too far apart. Do not double up anywhere but The Alamo you are simply halving your chances of catching.

The ‘hot’ swims change from week to week depending on the weather and where had been fished well. Listen to Danny the bailiff when you get there, he is the all Seeing Eye when it comes to Gigantica!

I use Gravel coloured rig tubing to stop tangles and protect the fish from the line during the fight, or a gravel coloured safe zone leader.

Your hooklink sounds perfect, I use 8-10 inches of Hybrid Stiff with a 20mm Cell bottom bait and 16mm Cell pop up. When the fish are really having it I swap to bottom baits, they seem to work better later in the week when the fish have been eating loads of bait.

There is loads more fish catching info on Gigantica-carp.com and the session we fished a match against the Dutch and Germans is on the latest Thinking Tackle Series 4 DVD due out at the end of November.

A lot of the Free DVD Carp, Tackle, Tactics and Tips Volume 3 was shot at Gigantica, it will be in tackle shops from the end of February 2010. It will give you an even better insight into how to fish the lake.

Hope that’s helpful.  Tight lines

Danny

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