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POLAROIDS ARE ESSENTIAL
Location Round-Up
So just to cap off location: get to the lake as early in the morning as you can, make sure you’ve got Polaroids… certainly Polaroids early in the morning may not be required to that level, because it’s easy, and the fish are on the bottom, and you’re looking for fizzing, rolling, head-and-shoulders, sliders, that sort of thing… but during the day when it’s bright, looking under overhangs, watching fish travelling under the surface, anything like that, Polaroids are essential.
SUMMER ESSENTIALS #3
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Issue 212—July
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MASTERCLASS TO CARP FISHING
A Guide To Summer Carp Fishing
WELCOME TO MY ‘Guide To Summer Carp Fishing’,
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Into The Jungle
You tend to see that a lot with snag-fishing. It’s quite common on a lot of lakes in the summer months to find fish held up in snags. I really hate snag-fishing; I just find it too stressful for me, and for the fish. To safely snag-fish, you can’t be in a sleeping bag, so if I do do it, it’s just for day sessions. Or if I’m doing overnights, I’ll bring my rods away from the snag and put them somewhere else. There is no way you can get out of a sleeping bag, out of a bivvy, to the rods, and stop it from getting into snags. Most monos have a 20 per cent stretch factor, so once you realise that, and factor that into the distance a fish can go when that line is fully stretched out, it’s considerable, so I really would implore you if you can’t fish snags safely, please don’t!
The Key Bite Times
With location, in the summer months, there is no more important time to be on the bank than early in the morning. On a day like today, when it’s cloudy and drizzly and windy, then on some lakes you could expect to find them throughout the course of the day, head-and-shouldering or so on—depending on the stock level and how hard the lake is. But if it’s a bright, hot sunny day, and it’s a hard lake that’s weedy with clear water, there are times when the only time you will see them, is in that early morning window, which is typically from first light up until eight or nine in the morning; it depends on how quickly, and how bright, the sun gets. So the higher the sun gets, and the brighter it gets, the quicker, the faster it will nullify that early morning feeding activity. And this is key as well, because although we’re always looking for carp, finding where they are early in the morning is where they will be feeding. That’s where they’ve been through the night… that’s where they’ve been doing their feeding. So sometimes, you could turn up at lunchtime or the afternoon and find carp maybe basking in weedbeds, or in lily pads or snags, but they aren’t necessarily the places where you’ll catch them early in the morning
Time To Talk Bait
Moving on, let’s look at bait for the summer. Now, obviously sight-dependent… you need to bear in mind whether you’re fishing busy little, or I should say well-stocked club and syndicate lakes, through to the other end of the spectrum where you could be fishing low-stock, hard lakes for big fish. So obviously bait will change hugely according to those. But the one thing that we can be confident of, out of all the other quadrants of the calendar: this is the quarter where carp will come and eat bait, and on occasion, lots of it too
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I do tend to avoid bright hookbaits in the majority of my fishing, all the time. But in the summer, I certainly don’t want to be on them, for two key reasons: one, everyone will have been using them for months since the spring, and any fish that are stupid enough to have been eating them will have been caught on them once or twice, and will be a bit leery of them. But secondly, you have got spawnedout, supercharged fish… you know, males that are charging around, very much sight-feeders. And if you’ve got a bright bait there, they’ll be grabbing it before the more slowly moving, meandering females that’ll be feeding more using their olfactory senses… senses of taste and smell, rather than sight. So I certainly don’t want to be on a bright bait, and again, it’s a good bit of advice if you are fishing a lake that’s got a lot of small fish in it. Ditch those straight away and you will find that your stamp of fish will go up
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