Comments on: Do French carp feed off the surface? http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/readers-query-french-carp-off-the-surface/ News from all our French carp lakes plus general info useful to carpers everywhere Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:59:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Big Ron http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/readers-query-french-carp-off-the-surface/comment-page-1/#comment-1053 Big Ron Tue, 26 May 2009 15:12:41 +0000 http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/?p=952#comment-1053 Hi Pat ...have you seen Tony Davies Patricks dvd on France ?? we actualy filmed at Gareths lakes a couple of years back, both me and him catching them off the top ...this is not the first lake I have had them off the surface in France. Ron Hi Pat …have you seen Tony Davies Patricks dvd on France ?? we actualy filmed at Gareths lakes a couple of years back, both me and him catching them off the top …this is not the first lake I have had them off the surface in France.

Ron

]]> By: Pat Gillett http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/readers-query-french-carp-off-the-surface/comment-page-1/#comment-1005 Pat Gillett Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:23:45 +0000 http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/?p=952#comment-1005 Hi all, It will be nice to see how Simon gets on with the floater approach on Hideaway as in all the time i have been going to France i have never caught or seen fish caught from the very surface of the lake. I put this down to the fact that nearly all french fish are farm bred and as such are fed with sinking pellets. Therefore they are not used to feeding off the surface and do not associate these surface items as being a food source. If you were fishing these French lakes regularly throughout a season then i have no doubt that you could wean the fish onto the surface baits by feeding plenty of them. But i doubt whether you will do it a 1 week visit. If you could then you will get some terrific sport because the fish will not be used to being caught off the surface and will be easy to catch. Just a thought but maybe the fishery owners could feed surface pellets throughout the warm weather to wean the fish onto them, thus giving their customers another avenue of carp fishing to go at. I know we had a discussion on this very question between us bait consultants on the Quest baits website (last year), and i am sure that none of us had taken French fish by surface fishing. Some have fell at mid-water etc to Zyg rigs but never directly off the surface. Give it a go and good luck Simon. Let us know how you get on. Cheers, Pat Hi all,
It will be nice to see how Simon gets on with the floater approach on Hideaway as in all the time i have been going to France i have never caught or seen fish caught from the very surface of the lake.
I put this down to the fact that nearly all french fish are farm bred and as such are fed with sinking pellets. Therefore they are not used to feeding off the surface and do not associate these surface items as being a food source.

If you were fishing these French lakes regularly throughout a season then i have no doubt that you could wean the fish onto the surface baits by feeding plenty of them. But i doubt whether you will do it a 1 week visit. If you could then you will get some terrific sport because the fish will not be used to being caught off the surface and will be easy to catch.

Just a thought but maybe the fishery owners could feed surface pellets throughout the warm weather to wean the fish onto them, thus giving their customers another avenue of carp fishing to go at.

I know we had a discussion on this very question between us bait consultants on the Quest baits website (last year), and i am sure that none of us had taken French fish by surface fishing. Some have fell at mid-water etc to Zyg rigs but never directly off the surface.

Give it a go and good luck Simon. Let us know how you get on.

Cheers,
Pat

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