Comments on: In carp fishing small things can make a big difference! http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/small-things-can-make-a-big-difference/ 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: Pat Gillett http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/small-things-can-make-a-big-difference/comment-page-1/#comment-696 Pat Gillett Tue, 27 May 2008 07:13:55 +0000 http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/?p=285#comment-696 Hi Gareth, The thing that i found most 'strange' about the week was that the spot that produced all the takes was only about 15 feet back from my original spot. There was no noticeable change to the make-up of the lake bed. The only change was a slight change in depth (about 2 feet shallower). Until the last day of the week there were also no fish showing in this area. I did try the original spot again through the week to see if fish had just moved into the area but to no avail as the same small area kept producing. Has you say it is something that can happen quite often. The same thing happened on Cedar lake year when a small open water spot produced 20 odd fish while the other rods hardly did anything. I guess as anglers we have to be prepared to try and find these little 'hotspots' and to be prepared to admit we are wrong when our original choice of area (which seemed perfect to us) fails to produce. The preference of the carp to 20mm baits as opposed to anything else was also a bit odd (I could have understood this if the carp had been hammered on small baits, but this was not the case). Again this is something I have experienced on a few other occasions, not only with carp but also with barbel. Usually if you use something different to everybody else it pays off. That’s why I have found it pays to always carry a variety of baits with you and be prepared to ‘chop and change’ until you find the right combination. Cheers, Pat Hi Gareth,
The thing that i found most ‘strange’ about the week was that the spot that produced all the takes was only about 15 feet back from my original spot. There was no noticeable change to the make-up of the lake bed. The only change was a slight change in depth (about 2 feet shallower). Until the last day of the week there were also no fish showing in this area.

I did try the original spot again through the week to see if fish had just moved into the area but to no avail as the same small area kept producing.

Has you say it is something that can happen quite often. The same thing happened on Cedar lake year when a small open water spot produced 20 odd fish while the other rods hardly did anything.

I guess as anglers we have to be prepared to try and find these little ‘hotspots’ and to be prepared to admit we are wrong when our original choice of area (which seemed perfect to us) fails to produce.

The preference of the carp to 20mm baits as opposed to anything else was also a bit odd (I could have understood this if the carp had been hammered on small baits, but this was not the case). Again this is something I have experienced on a few other occasions, not only with carp but also with barbel. Usually if you use something different to everybody else it pays off. That’s why I have found it pays to always carry a variety of baits with you and be prepared to ‘chop and change’ until you find the right combination.

Cheers,
Pat

]]> By: Gareth http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/small-things-can-make-a-big-difference/comment-page-1/#comment-694 Gareth Mon, 26 May 2008 21:59:33 +0000 http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/?p=285#comment-694 Hi Pat, You are so right on how one area of a swim can produce virtually all you takes... I set up a few years ago on a lake up near Caen for a weekend.. I used a marker to find areas as was happy with my spots... After a few hours and no runs, I saw a fish lump out several times round to my right. This was a fair way from where I had place my baits as I had a superb gravel spit in front of me. Well after the fish showing on about five occasions in a short space of time I cast to it. This resulted in a 20lb mirror on the bank. So I repositioned two rods on this spot, and during the weekend had 22 carp from an area I had not even looked at during my initial feature finding session. The original spots produced just one carp all weekend. Like you if I hadn't cast to that showing fish I'm convinced I'd have struggled to catch more than a fish or two. By the way as I caught steadily I never managed top get a marker out to discover why... I just figured that to do so would have ruined th swim... But it goes to show you need to be in tune and to find out where the fish feed... I wonder if the Belgian anglers know this... ;-) cheers Gareth Hi Pat,

You are so right on how one area of a swim can produce virtually all you takes…
I set up a few years ago on a lake up near Caen for a weekend.. I used a marker to find areas as was happy with my spots…

After a few hours and no runs, I saw a fish lump out several times round to my right. This was a fair way from where I had place my baits as I had a superb gravel spit in front of me.
Well after the fish showing on about five occasions in a short space of time I cast to it. This resulted in a 20lb mirror on the bank. So I repositioned two rods on this spot, and during the weekend had 22 carp from an area I had not even looked at during my initial feature finding session.

The original spots produced just one carp all weekend. Like you if I hadn’t cast to that showing fish I’m convinced I’d have struggled to catch more than a fish or two.

By the way as I caught steadily I never managed top get a marker out to discover why… I just figured that to do so would have ruined th swim… But it goes to show you need to be in tune and to find out where the fish feed…

I wonder if the Belgian anglers know this… ;-)

cheers
Gareth

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