Carp Fishing Techniques: Pop-ups…bottomstyle!

by Roy Van Goor
Since I am for I never seem to use a lot of pop-ups. Its just not my

way of presenting a bait. …Well, Up to now!!.. Things started when I was discussing using pop-ups on a local meeting with another angler. He told me he was catching plenty on pop-ups on a local venue…where I had never used them

I fished that lake a lot and it got me thinking about it.I wanted to use the pop-ups in a different way, I remembered a I had seen in some book..It was an about presenting pop-ups on the , making the even better and more detectable for feeding fish.. I searched the sheds for the book and after I found it I had a look again at that . It would be perfect for my style of and maybe could boosted up my catch rates.. Its suits every possible rig, and very easy to make.. You don’t have to tie new and can change from to pop-up in a second.
Attach a pop-up on to the hair and balance it with some lead shot for a 15mm pop-up I found that 0,3 gram makes it sit perfect, just “dancing around nicely on the ,”

When fish feed. they will feel the baits with there mouths before picking it up, by it this way the is just a bit higher then the standard free offerings.
Another big advantage is that it will not take the smell from the so it will be very attractive to , even on a muddy, smelly It boosted my catches this year…in with the Quest pop-ups..Try it!!

Greetz

roy van goor

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Comment by Shaun
2008-06-12 08:49:39

Hi Roy,

This is something I do a lot of in my own fishing. I rarely use pop-ups popped up but do use pop-ups most of the time - if that makes sense. The furthest I ever pop baits up is the height of the hook with the counterbalance weight around a millimeter from the eye - but more often on the hair itself.

Another method I use quite a bit to ’sink’ the pop-up is to insert lead wire into it. Try using a split shot as the boilie stop. This gives a different scenario completely when a carp sucks it in. Worth trying on pressured waters in the same way as a snowman bait is with the pop-up and bottom bait fished in reverse.

Keep tricking them and the bobbins keep flying!

Best fishes - Shaun Harrison.

 
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