Shaun goes through some tips on how you can best plan your trip to a new venue, whether it is in France or the UK. He reveals some of the home work you can do and ways of getting the best from your swim in a short time, how to use tools like Metcheck and Google Earth to find the fish etc.
One of my favourite methods of carp fishing is using PVA bags. We all know it can be an absolutely deadly method of catching carp but even more so when used at long range where the carp have rarely come across this presentation. The first time I tried to cast a PVA bag a long way, the bag didn’t stand up to the job and I wasn’t confident with the overall result. So I decided to set about making a rig which would cast well and not tangle. The rig below is what I now use for all my long range bag work, it’s simple to construct, casts well, tangle free and prevents the bag coming away from the lead on impact with the water.
Below I’ll show you how I tie this rig…
Morning Shaun.
Not really sure if I must pose my questions to the emails. But anyway sure you will tell me.
Here is my question:
Went out yesterday to a day ticket water. Baited the spot on Saturday evening with about 4 kilo’s of maize.
Had 11 takes yesterday up to 22 pounds. Not big but great fun. My problem is that I am trying homemade boilies too, basically air dried boilies as per your articles. Soaking them for 12 hours but yesterday when I went out time and time again the rig comes out with the boilie no where to be seen.
I was fishing with some of the first batches that I made and i know in the beginning I was scared to boil them for too long, basically just boiling them for a minute.
The new batches I boil until they start rising 2 - 3 minutes. Could this be the problem
Got hemp in them too, way too much I think as they tend to break up quit badly when I try to put them on the Hair - rig.
Another question I want to buy a carp sack as I get fish early in the morning with no one to take photo’s for me.
How long is safe to sack a carp.
Thanks a lot.
PS. Saw a movie friday of you in France. Excellent.
Greetings Gert Roestoff
South Africa.
Oakview by Linda Latham
We were lucky enough to be able to stop at Oakview for a few days whilst making one of our usual trips to some of our venues in France. On this trip most of our visits to the lakes were grouped in an area where we could stop in one place and circle out each day to view the venues. When we arrived at Oakview in the evening Shirley and Martin made us most welcome at their home with a nice hot cuppa. From their house we could just see the lake through the trees in the distance as the sun was going down. We discussed their plans and then the talk got around to the actual fishing something I love to do! (I always travel with my rods in the roof of the van) Martin could see I was chomping at the bit and offered to show me around the lake - if I wanted to fish… If !! – we were down the stairs and half way across the field before his feet touched the ground.
As we walked around the lake Martin told me all about the work they had done – including de-silting the lake and putting in a deeper channel along the left side of the lake (looking from the cabin) He also showed me the hotspots where successful anglers had fished before. (more…)
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