Carp Catchers Blog

Indicators are widely used by a lot of anglers and over the years they have acquired a range of names such as hangers, bobbins and swingers amongst others. An indicator is usually clipped onto the line in front of the alarm while the rod is sitting on the buzzer bars/banksticks/rod pod. It provides a visual indication as to what is happening with the baited rig. They could drop to the floor if the fish picks up the rig and swims towards you or they could rise up to the rod as the fish swims away but either way it provides the anglers with more than just a screaming alarm.

In modern carp fishing there are a wide range of indicators available to carp anglers. A lot of carp anglers make their choice of indicators purely from a image point of view. With so many indicators available on todays market and so many ways to customise them it appears to be one thing anglers can alter to personalise theirs from anyone elses.

Now all this isn’t a bad thing but what a lot of anglers don’t realise is that indicators play an important role in bite indication. Having the right setup for a given fishing situation could improve your chances of banking a fish or two. 

Hangers such as the Matrix Hot Head Hangers and the Solar Fluoro Indicator System are what I would consider to be the most popular and all round best indicator for the majority of fishing situations. My reasoning for this is due to the adaptability these give you when on the bank. There are a range of bodies available, both lightweight such as the Muddy Waters Old Skool Bobbins and heavyweight bodies, Matrix and Solar also do a varied range of bodies. Add-On weights are also available to suit your fishing situation from short to long range fishing.

Tight Lines

Dave

Rob O’Brien and friends had a major carping haul in France recently. Fishing at Etang Rendevuoz Rob and two friends amassed a hundred carp between them. Rob alone had 37 fish, the biggest being 37lb. The rigs Rob used were constructed from 6” of  Sufix Kameleon  with half inch stripped back, this was tied to size 4 Korda Wide Gape Hook shrink tubed and tied blow back style. The successful baits were Mainline Activ Maple-8  and Nash Scopex Squid Plus Robin Red  freezer boilies fished snowman style with matching pop ups. These were fished over a bed of boilies, pellets and maise. Rob reports that the temperatures were in the 30′s and the water temperature was an incredible 26 degrees centigrade. Well done Rob sounds like you had a great holiday.

Best Fishes,

John

Shop regular John Jones banked a 3o plus common on a new water recently. The fished weighed in at 35lb 2oz and was a fish caught a month earlier by Ian Smith at a similar weight. John tempted the fish back to the bank with a mixed bed of sticky baits boilies and a snowman hookbait. The set up John used was a Korda 4oz lead on a  Korda Safe Zone Safety Lead Clip  and Johns’ rig was tied with Kryston Super Mantis Green Hooklink and a size 6 Nash Fang X Hook. Well done again mate. Nice photo too.

Tight Lines

Dave

Customer Ian Smith caught one of his target fish recently. Fishing a new water, Ian caught the magnificent common carp shown below after only a few nights. The common weighed 35lb 5oz, a little bit down on it’s normal weight. This is no doubt due to the good spawning weather we had a month or so back. Ian fished a light scattering of mixed sized Nash Scopex Squid Liver Plus Robin Red Shelf Life Boilies  to a silty area in open water. The rig Ian used was a 10”  Kryston Super Mantis hooklink tied to a size 6 Gardner Mugga  hook. The hookbait was a Nash Scopex Squid Liver Plus Robin Red  pop up fished an inch off the deck. This guy just keeps catching, well done Ian.

Best Fishes,

John

Regular customer Lea also had a successful session on the difficult Pit 6 recently. Lea had two common carp weighing 16lb and two mirror carp one at 11lb 5oz and one at 17lb. The baits that Lea used were Mainline Cell Freezer Boilies and Dynamite Baits new Red Fish Freezer Boilies . No rig details from Lea but whatever he was using obviously worked. Nice one Lea.

Best Fishes,

John