{"id":2339,"date":"2010-02-08T17:27:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/winter-carp-fishing-the-ice-rig\/"},"modified":"2013-11-26T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T09:00:30","slug":"winter-carp-fishing-the-ice-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/winter-carp-fishing-the-ice-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Carp Fishing – The Ice Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"

David writes;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Winter fishing at Vaux<\/a> this year has been superb – <\/span><\/em>see the January 28th Blog post here<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In this post from Chas, the owner of Vaux<\/span><\/a>, he gives away one of his winter edges… his Ice Rig!<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Chas’s Ice Rig<\/p><\/div>\n

From May 2002 when we bought Vaux until March 2004 when it was opened as a carp fishing venue, the mill storehouse was converted into a g\u00eete, extensive works were carried out to the banks, fish stock was introduced \u2026.. and we were at liberty to fish our lake. For the past six years, we have been lucky enough to fill the main season weeks with carp anglers and it is not until the season winds down that it becomes ours to fish again. That means Winter fishing!Over the years it has become apparent to us that some of the best catches and largest fish come out in the colder months. Even this winter, probably the harshest we ourselves have experienced over here, has produced some of the best despite two periods of ice on the pond.<\/p>\n

On each occasion as the thaw progressed, a party of anglers arrived to find us clearing away the last of the ice; we have the advantage at Vaux of being able to break up and dispose of the ice via the sluices once the thaw is under way. And on each occasion, within three to four hours of the ice being removed, each party of anglers was catching and continued to do so throughout each of their week\u2019s stay. This is more than on a par with some of the summer fishing.<\/p>\n

Because we consciously feed our carp throughout the winter months on low oil carp and trout pellets, particles and winter formula boilies, the lake is not going into a total state of dormancy, so catches are boosted.<\/p>\n

My own preference, especially for my cold season fishing, is the Ice Rig, or gla\u00e7on as we call it in France, always a success for me. This frozen stick, an all-season alternative to funnel web systems, incorporates selected hook bait and any number of combinations of liquid or liquidised attractors, meats, particles, condensed milk and other ingredients to alter the PH of the water around the baits which has lead to outstanding success at the lake, all year round.<\/p>\n

Here’s a step by step guide to producing the Glacon…<\/p>\n

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Here’s a selection of the containers I use to make up the Glacon rig<\/p><\/div>\n

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… and here they are cut down ready for loading (the stone is in the right hand bottle is to stop it being blown away!)<\/p><\/div>\n

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In goes the rig….<\/p><\/div>\n

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Put your chosen freebies at the bottom, around & over the rig. The variations are endless & include liquid preparations which are very difficult to introduce around your hookbait in any other way<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pop in the freezer until they freeze solid<\/p><\/div>\n

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For the larger Glacons cut down the side of the plastic to release. For the smaller ones place the re-usable container in your hands for a minute or so… you’ll then be able to push the Glacon out. Simples!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ready to go! Note that Buddy the dog supervises all stages of the process!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ready to cast – the larger ones are designed for baitboat use<\/p><\/div>\n

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… ready to be boated out!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Does it work? You bet it does! “We finished photographing the glacons at about 11.20 on Saturday morning and instead of wasting them, two rods were put out. This 23lb common carp was my first ever carp fishing experience and so my PB and was landed at 11.50am, only half an hour later!!! The second rod went about 15 minutes after that, but a good fish was lost just before the net.” Buddy the dog declares himself satisfied with the days work!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David writes; The Winter fishing at Vaux this year has been superb – see the January 28th Blog post here In this post from Chas, the owner of Vaux, he gives away one of his winter edges… his Ice Rig! From May 2002 when we bought Vaux until March 2004 when it was opened as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[942,887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carp-rigs","category-winter-carping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}