6 MIN READ TIME
EARLY MORNING
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.
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