Tackle The Carp Fishing Issues! Should Anglers Be Tested Before Getting A License? carp fishing france

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I love carp fishing. I love the challenge. I love the sound of a Micron going off at 3 in the morning. I even love it when it's blowing a hoolie and raining buckets. But there are a few things about carp fishing that really really bug me. As a carp fisherman, I take care of the fish and the fisheries I visit. Perhaps it is time to bring in a fishing test before people can apply for a fishing license. Just a theory test would educate some of the people who give the rest of us a bad name.

You know the sort. The broom sticks and washing line guys. I remember once on a local day ticket water, there was this guy fishing down the other end of the lake. I'd had a couple of decent fish earlier on when I saw this guy struggling with what looked like a monster. I know there were carp to 30lb in the lake so assumed he had latched into a biggie, although he didn't have much of a bend in his rod. About 20 minutes went by and he was still playing the same fish. I reeled in and wandered down to him. He was just stood there while this poor carp was circling around right beneath the rod tip. I suggested he might give it a bit of wellie and he told me "I've only got 20lb line on and I don't want it to snap". Eventually he took my advice and leant back gently and a whopping great 6lb mirror carp popped to the surface. I duly helped him net it and told him to hold the net in the water while I trekked back to my swim in disgust to get an unhooking mat as he didn't have one.

Line left on the banks bugs all decent fishermen, but when you find a barbed hook on it and a lead weight TIED ON my blood boils. If that rig had snapped of in the water, you'd have had dead carp on your hands. As it was, it hooked nothing but my leg. It hurt like hell, but I had wire clippers with me, so no harm done as I had recently had a tetanus jab. The thing is, it could have been a bird, swan, a dog or worst of all a child. Like I said, a fishing test might be the answer.

I haven't got a clue how it would work in practice, and I'm sure half the idiots out there doing these things probably don't hold licenses anyway, but I think it might be worth looking into a little further. What do you think?

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By Dave Offen

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Fishing: carp fishing france

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Fishing is an activity of hunting fish or aquatic animals such as cool water fish, warm water fish, various types of shellfish as well as squid, octopus and turtles with a rod, line and hook. It is a popular, ancient practice involving many techniques and traditions. Also called angling, fishing originated as a means of seeking food for survival.

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By Steve Valentino

Carp Fishing Tips : carp fishing france

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Here is a list of carp fishing tips to help you catch more big carp.

1. If you can, try to locate the fish before choosing a peg. Locating the carp, or any possible patrolling area is a largest part of carp fishing success.

2. Use fishmeal-based boilies during the summer and autumn, try 50/50 mixes or bird food types of bait during winter and spring.

3. Add plenty of salt to particle baits, especially the cooked types like hemp, maize, tares, beans, partiblend seeds, maple peas and chick peas. Carp love the taste of salty foods. As a rough guide, add one tablespoon of salt to 5 litres dry particles.

4. Try adding chillies to some particle baits. Carp seem to love that hot "kick" from those spices. Roughly add 2 tablespoons to 5 litres particles.

5. If the standard carp baits like boilies don't seem to be working, try using maggots. Here is a maggot carp rig to try. You can fill a small PVA bag with maggots to get some free offerings out at distance. Or you could even half-fill the bag with dry groundbait to give off a cloudy attraction. (If you are concerned about maggots wriggling away or into silt try using previously frozen dead maggots.)

6. When the water is cold such as in the winter, try casting your rigs a little more frequently, and target different areas in order to place a hook bait close to the fish. Cold water slows down the movements of carp so there's less chance the fish will swim towards your bait. In the summer, you can lay traps in possible patrolling areas and wait for the carp to find the bait.

7. Use different sizes of pellets or particles in a spod mix. This helps confuse the carp, it also gives you the option to use various sizes on the hook.

8. Add high sources of vitamin C to your bait. I often mix my method up using orange juice rather than lake water. You can also try soaking fresh boilies in orange juice in order to give that distinct flavour and extra sugar.

9. If you're worried about overfeeding the swim then use breadcrumb groundbait with just the attractants added but without all the particle baits included. this way you get all the attraction without filling the fish.

10. Whenever you can, try to stay away from using round bait. Far too many carp are caught on round baits, you want to be different. I sometimes just square up the hook bait with sissors.

11. Try crumbling a multi-vitamin pill into your method mix. Carp love highly nutritious foods!

12. If you're fishing a new water, try using brightly coloured bait with high attract smells. Only switch if you know there are carp in the swim and you are having no action.

13. Try to get carp competing for the bait. When carp compete for food they lower their guard and are easier to catch.

14. In the winter try fishing the silt areas at the bottom of gravel bars.

15. Always try to camouflage your end tackle to suit the lake bed you're fishing on. I sometimes weight down a spod with leads, then cast it out and let it sink to the bottom, then scrap up a sample of the bottom. I can then create my end tackle to suit the same colour. If possible I try to do this a few days before a fishing session.

16. Always use good quality bait when fishing for big carp.

17. If you're catching carp in a certain spot then you want to place your rigs in the exact same spot every time you cast. To help do this, place some marker line or a small piece of tape on the main line once you have the rig in your preferred area.

18. Rather than throwing unused particle baits into the lake at the end of the session, take them home and freeze them. Many particles such as hemp, maize, chick peas and beans can be frozen and kept, even maggots can be frozen and used for another carping session.

19. To help stop a banked carp from jumping around when trying to remove the hook, try covering up the eyes with a wet cloth.

20. Try not to throw out too much bait at the start of a session, try the "little and often approach". Remember you cannot take out what has already gone in!

21. Try not to overfill a spod it will cause spillage in mid flight. It may also alter the course of the spod.

22. If fishing a pressured venue, don't add too many bright baits to your spod mix. Bright colours often spook shy carp, only add the bright colours if the neutral colours don't work.

23. In cold weather try soaking hook bait in neat liquid flavourings. These are usually much stronger helping to release attractant over a longer period.

24. To help locate the distance of the fish in the swim, fish with tight lines and stagger the rods at various distances. If you get line bites on the rod closest to the bank then you know you're fishing to far with the other rods.

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