Lots Of Carp On Surface, But Not Interested In My Bait?

[Chris_010292]

Hi all, first of all I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone for letting me become a member of this fantastic and very useful site. Here is my story,

I went Fishing yesterday at my local lake and I could see lots of Carp right on the surface and they looked very big. I have been fishing for around a year now and I took a keen interest in fishing for Carp around 2 months back which was when I had my first Common Carp at 15 ib, I was really happy and the fight was excellent! As it was fairly cold and could not see the Carp I used the ledgering method which was successful. Anyway, I thought that if I place bait right on top of these Carp then I should be able to catch them but apparently not, they just swam straight past my bait like it was transparent! I was using Boilies to try to catch them but had no luck at all and it was so frustrating seeing these monsters everywhere and not being able to catch them, at certain points they were so close in you could basically catch them with a net but that's not the point. I thought today that I may be using the wrong type of bait? Perhaps next time I go I should try using Bread, sweetcorn and luncheon meet etc, does anyone else think I was using the wrong type of bait or is there anything I could do to increase my chances of catching? Again, thank you very much for letting me posting on the Forums, all the best,

Chris.

[slimeofsnail]

it could be due to spawning or presentation of baits
bread & dog biscuit tied on a bait band seems to be a good idea
carp are fussty at the moment but they are gradually waking up to eating more frequent so i think its more of a time thing than what you are using

i caught a few carp at the weekend with red maggot only so i was really happy but weekend before all i could catch was breanm after bream

good luck

[Bishop]

I've had 2 great carp sessions in the last couple of weeks.
1. Medium sized cubes of luncheon meant on a hair. Fed the swim little and often, and caught loads of mirrors up to about 10 lb. They could not get enough.
2. Halibut pellet was amazing. Used it afew times before but not with this amount of success. Again fed the swim little and often and got a bite a chuck pretty much.

Both times I was using a float rather than legering and was only about 2 feet down. I suppose it depends on the venue but the warm spell we've just had might be waking them up some more as they seemed really switched on to the feed.

Best of luck

[tomthefisher]

bread bread bread bread

[carpkid9]

red maggots and caught 12 pounder on luncheon meat

[Pompey]

Surface feeding is hard.

Some Carp bask in the sun and are not neccisarily on feeding. Floating dog biscuits are great ( small sizes), and also pellets, in a pellt ring that you can buy.

Bread is also great but hard to fish with.

Forget the float too, just use basic tackle, and if you really need to a tiny bubble float.

[louisj]

hav you tried trimming the bolie down it has a greater effect as it looks more rough and gives it that more natural presentation, also try brightly coloured bolies this helps me when times are slow in the water.

[MarkTaylor]

This could be worth a go mate:

The Cigar Method

Might be worth a try

Tight Lines

Mark

[jack better than u]

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[scawski2k8]

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