Carp Catchers Blog

When it comes to casting accuracy a lot of people struggle with hitting the right spot every time when carp fishing, hopefully this blog will help you towards hitting that spot time after time.

Once you have located your choosen spot with your marker whether it be a clear gravel patch, silty pocket or just a choosen area to spod bait to wind down your marker float until it hits the lead then clip it up, making sure you have picked a suitable far bank marker to aim at which you will be able to pin point even during the hours of darkness. Now lay your marker rod down behind your swim along with the rod/rods you wish to place on the area, loosen the clutches then walk the marker setup and leads down the bank until you hit the clip on your marker rod. Now lay them all down side by side and walk back to your rods to clip them up also, before retrieving the leads attach a line marker such as the Armaled Mark Up Elastic  (see August blog – How To Tie A Sliding Stop Knot) to the line on each rod making sure it will sit behind the alarms and won’t affect bite indication. Once this is done you will be able to cast at your far bank marker during daylight or darkness and be completely confident that you hitting that spot,  just make sure that you unclip the line from your reels after casting out so your rods won’t be dragged in should you get a take. If you wish to spod to the area, place your spod rod on that same spot and walk your spod rod down to the same point, a stick in the ground is enough to ensure you don’t lose the mark. I would advise that you clip your spod rod a few feet short of the mark to allow for the swing back that will occur on the clipped up rods as they fall to the lake bed.

If you have to reel in the rod/rods to rebait make sure to clip the line up again with the line marker in the same place as when you first attached it to the line, i.e. if you attached the line marker between the last two eyes make sure you re clip the rod with the marker between those eyes. Also if you have a fish from the spot cast the rod out into open water away from the area to avoid any disturbance and clip the rod with the line marker in its original position.

A few tips to consider when using this method.

1. Make sure you lay all your rods in the same place when walking the leads down the bank.

2. Make sure you stand in exactly the same spot when casting, as if you stand too far forwards, backwards, to the left or the right you may land off the spot.

3. Once you’ve cast your rod out hold the tip high in the air to avoid the lead/spod bouncing back off the clip and missing the spot, this will also avoid damaging the line if you hit the clip too hard.

4. If the cast has strayed slightly left of the mark on the cast hold the rod up and out to the right slightly before you hit the clip, this will help correct the cast and visa versa if the cast has strayed to the right.

And remember if you miss the spot then recast the rod as it could mean all the difference between a blank and a fish on the bank.

Tight Lines

Dave

After Korda released their new DVD I was innundated with requests for the Korda Krusha Boilie Chopper  . Well guys’ we now have them in stock and they look pretty impressive. The Korda Krusha is designed to crush boilies, nuts and particles into either coarse chops or fine crumb, so they are ideal for making stick mixes, boilie chops and spod mixes. For coarse chops you just give the Krusha a couple of turns, for a finer crumb you just keep turning till the crumb is the required consistency. The Korda Krusha comes in two sizes, large and small. The small Krusha is suited to smaller particles such as hemp. For more details or to purchase visit the main site via the above link.

Best fishes,

John

Regular customer Martin has had a bit of a lean spell recently, but his persistence paid off and it all came good at the weekend. Fishing Swan lake on the Bluebell complex Martin used inline running rigs and a new bait on test to tempt the nice brace of mirror carp shown below. The brace weighed 31lb 8oz and 18lb respectively. Martins snowman rigs were constructed from the new Korda Hybrid Soft  and size 6 ESP Curve Shanx  hooks.

Well done Martin, lets hope they keep coming.

Best fishes,

John

This blog illustrates another reason we go carp fishing. With a cup of tea in hand this lovely dawn shot shows what is probably most carp anglers favourite time of day.

Photo courtesy of customer Martin.

Best fishes,

John

Regular customer Sean upped his personal best recently with this 24lb 8oz beauty of a common carp. To make his catch even more meritable Seans’ common was caught from a fairly tough water, Pit 6 on the A1 Pits complex. Sean fish was caught on a single Carp Company Pukka Pop Up  Hi Viz Squid flavour fished on its’ own at a 110yrds. The rig used was tied with ESP Striptease   knotless knotted to a size 8 Korda Kurv Shank Hook . A well deserved capture, nice one Sean.

Best fishes,

John

A lot of anglers prefer to use inline leads for most of their fishing but certain fishing situations dictate that it isn’t possible to use them due to excess weed growth which means a setup which releases the lead on the take is needed, well here’s how to set up an inline lead that will drop off on the take. The rig components used in this demonstration were a Korda flat pear inline lead, a  Korda Safe Zone Kamo Leader  and  Korda Safe Zone Tail Rubbers .

Step 1.

Using a good set of pliers remove the eye of the swivel furthest from the leader.

Leaving just the swivel barrel and the eye attached to the Korda Safe Zone leader loop, I know in past demonstrations of this setup by others the whole swivel have been left but Ive found it takes a lot less to discharge the lead this way especially with slower takes.

Step 2.

Now slide a tail rubber up the leader.

Step 3.

Using the pliers again trim a small length of the plastic insert from the inline lead, making it even easier to drop the lead.

Step 3.

Now attach a  Korda Stick Clip  to the eye of the swivel.

Step 4.

Then push the swivel into the bottom of the lead, making sure it goes in barrel first. It will just about sit comfortably in the insert.

Step 5.

Now slide the tail rubber onto the trimmed down plastic insert and pull it tight making sure it holds the swivel in place.

The finished setup should look like this and should discharge the lead on the take making it easier and safer when fishing for big carp in weedy waters.

Tight Lines

Dave

Little David equaled his personal best recently with this nice 15lb common carp. David used a Korda Longshank X Hook  and Nash Amber Attract Strawberry  Boilies to catch his fish. Well done David keep them coming !

Best fishes,

John

A quick word now for those of you who bought the Nash Box Logic Rig Station, the Nash Rig Light is now in. The Nash Rig Light clips onto your rig station or bivvy table and has a flexible neck so you can direct the light where it is needed. The reason it has taken so long for these to come in is that Kevin was not happy with the original batch and sent them back. We also now have the  Nash Box Logic TT Linkers in stock. The Linkers are clever little boxes which can be linked together and are really handy for storing smaller terminal tackle items. For more information or to purchase follow the above links to the main site.

Best fishes,

John

Customer Ben Roberts has been getting amongst them recently, as this gnarly old mirror shows. Ben’s carp weighed 25lb 12oz and shows signs of being clipped in the distant past. Clipping used to be a fairly common practice on some waters back in the day. This was before carp anglers realised each carp was unique and therefore distinguishable from any other carp. The rig Ben used was constructed using 15lb ESP Ghost  knotless knotted to a size 6 Carp’ R’ Us Longshank Nailers . Ben was fishing a snaggy area and used his  Shimano Big Baitrunner LC  reels loaded with 15lb Nash Bullet XT  to guide the old warrior safely to the net.

Nicely done Ben.

Best fishes,

John

Here’s a different one from Rob O’ Brien. Customer Rob did a bit of fluff chucking at Rutland Water the other night and had 4 fish. The best of which is the nice rainbow trout shown below. The fly used was a green and black tadpole with a gold bead head tied to a weight forward line to a fulling mill leader(which Rob says is great for floater fishing for carp).

Nice one Rob.

Best fishes

John