Summer Carp Tactics

July 11, 2009 shaun 1 comment

By Roy van Goor

A few hints and tips for tackling summer carp;

When fishing the warmer periods in the summer its gets harder to catch carp on most venues.
Natural food sources, less oxygen, lots of weed, competition of other species are a few factors that are responsible for less action and more batteries life.

My personal approach for catching fish in the summer is active fishing. Not just sitting behind the rods and waiting for things to happen, or in a lot of cases don’t happen. Walking around on the hottest moment of the day and look for the fish.

Often you can see them hanging around in the upper layers above weedbeds or hanging around underneath bushes. When you found some fish in a particular area the next thing to do is check out the bottom profile around that spot.

The important question is ….is it fishable?

A lot of weedbeds normally hold fish for instance.. and are in a lot of cases above gravel patches or gravel area’s…perfect for presentation.

Casting around with a lead and feeling the bottom for clean area’s is the next thing to do. When I found something interesting I mark the line with marker elastic. That way I am always able to find the exact spot again and again after a take or a need of recast.

Another good sign for a good spot are ducks and other birds like coots. Where they dive down, there normally will some kind of be food source. If the birds know this, so do the carp. My approach of tackling these fish is by fishing on regular bases, just short sessions of when I go home I bait up and the next morning I return, when packing up baiting again..and so on.That way the fish will see boillies on allot of different moments of the day and will be visiting that area more frequently. Because its a natural hotspot they already attracted to it you more likely to hit the jackpot fishing certain area’s this way.