Big and small carp

[louisj]

Hi,
I recently been catching 4 lb carp (on average) this although is a fish is really getting me frustrated as i have 2 rods out and would like to keep catching the smaller carp on one and go for a good specimen on the other any ideas for both big and small carp!!!

Hair rig baits
ground baits
and methods of fishing
Hope you can help me thanks

[pester22]

one way of trying to pick out the better fish is to put on bigger baits although this doesnt always work. For example if you are fishing one 10mm boilie try using two or use just one 15 or 20mm boilie. This is a method which has always helped me to catch the better fish. Hope it helps.
Tight Lines

[Carp Crazy]

i always use a cage/swim feeder filled with fish meal green and strawberry groundbait with maggots or sweet cor on a size 10 hook i caught a lovely new pb carp in a area of the stillwater that is only a foot deep

[lpmcemap]

Two rods should mean twice the chance, try setting both rods up differently, when I use two rods I try to use one as a traditional carp rod on a bite alarm, on this rod I would normally try a big bait with a big hook, as a good friend and excellent fisherman from the Czech Republic told me when I laughed at his own homemade boilies that were the size of golf balls. Big fish have big mouths and small fish have small mouths sounds obvious but so many fishermen try for the monsters with tiny baits, smaller carp as well as big ones can eat small bait, a big fish can only take big bait.
Try small particles on the other rod this should result in the smaller fish keeping you busy and interested while the big bait sits there waiting for that monster from the deep
Good Luck

[warrior04]

you can catch carp of any size on small baits, i have had a 20lb common on single caster. its all about the feeding in my eyes sorry to blow holes in your big fish big mouths idea, and if you fish big baits thay will get attacked by small fish untill its big enough for them to take.

[lpmcemap]

Originally Posted by warrior04

you can catch carp of any size on small baits, i have had a 20lb common on single caster. its all about the feeding in my eyes sorry to blow holes in your big fish big mouths idea, and if you fish big baits thay will get attacked by small fish untill its big enough for them to take.

No Worry about holes blown in my theory, i was not trying to say that big fish will only take big baits i was trying to make the point that if you are fishing two rods and you keep getting the same size fish on two then up-sizing the hook-bait on one of the rods to a very large homemade boilie you may be able to trick the wary old carp. My PB for carp is 27lb on a single bit of corn fed over a bed of maize, this carp was caught when fishing for crucians, if i had had a big boilie hard not soft on another rod i would be shocked if the crucian had picked up the boilie not the maize, the smaller bait would then have worked for the smaller fish leaving the bigger bait for the big fish.

There are never any guarantees when fishing but you can up the odds by making the right choice when setting up.

If we always caught what we wanted how we wanted if would be called catching not fishing and I love fishing

Tight Lines

[lukeb]

hi,
ive just started carp fishing and i could do with a bit advice on a good setup and bait to catch the carp on.
any advice would be greatfully apprieciated.

luke

[carpcatcher]

Hi, well ive all ways fished with 2 rods out and both rods are set up the same with a hair rig and in line bomb. But the bait is different on both rods.

I use size 10 or 8 hook with a 15mm boilie that way the small fish can’t suck up the bait easy so the bigger fish will be able to take it a lot easer that’s from my experience of fishing.

So if you want to fish big and small fish just change the size of the hook, have one say a size 14 and the other size 10 or 8 that way you won’t just be catching the small fish all day.