By Roy Von Goor

About 10 years ago I started fishing a local lake,..a park lake about 8 acre’s in size.At that time the stock level was massive, lots of doubles and twenties. with the odd thirty plus fish.

The biggest resident at that time weighted 34 lb…a big mirror carp. Everybody wanted to catch that monster.Fishing was fairly easy, days of 5 fish or more where standard.The fish loved the anglers bait and kept coming back for it. At that time I did not land the monster, but sadly lost it in front of the net twice. Last year I had caught my targetfish from another lake fairly fast. With no direct other option I decided to take a ticket for the lake I fished 10 years ago. After arriving I noticed allot of anglers, but nobody catching anything.. All the anglers complained, they did not feed..weather was wrong..etc I just started using questbaits at that particular moment, and it was a good option to test quest them on these no feeding, weathermoody fish. After the 1st session , using fruitly trifle and smokey fish I blanked.

Hmm..i had seen plenty of action in my swim.leaping, bubbles, and crashing fish. Everybody fished the same way…all in the centre of the lake, using 15mm and 20 mm boillies. That 1st session I was fishing similar..15mm bottom baits about 40 yards out.

After closely observing these other anglers I decided my tactic needed to be adjusted. I would started fish under my rod tips, using 10mm’s smokey fish..and 8 mm fishmeal pellets. For hookbait I would stick to my pop-up bottom style fished rigs..( another chapter in this blog)

Well..to cute the story short..i landed in 12 fish in 4 sessions..incl the big mirror. While I only 1 fish was landed on other rods then mine. Just trying to fish at a different way brought me success, even at the moment I am still catching my fish on that lake on the same tactics.

In Holland its hard to get 10mm baits and allot of locals only think of them as bream magnets..but let them attract bream, the carp will follow. That’s my big advantage at the moment…things will probably change when Quest baits concurs Holland and the rest of Europe.

I love these small baits, and so do the carp!!

Greetz roy van goor

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