Comments on: On My Travels

By: Col

Col — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:06:46 +0000

Jamie,

Getting shy carp to bite is not really about what bait you fish, but how you feed it. Fish gain confidence by eating free samples with no hook in them. So, pick a peg/lake that is known to be a good one. When you get to your peg, plumb the depth and set your hookbait to be just on the bottom. Then throw half a dozen loose offerings around your float. Repeat this every 10 minutes. Eventually the fish will respond to the noise and free bait, and become confident enough to bite. This works with any bait – corn, luncheon meat, worms, maggots. But if you restricted me to one bait for carp it would be pellets. Good luck, and keep feeding every 10 mins!

By: jamie

jamie — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:26:11 +0000

thanxs i will try that 1 more question do u no a baite that will get shy carp biting ??
reply pleas

By: Col

Col — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:53:26 +0000

Jamie: best bait ever, ever, ever for perch – worm.

Larford Legend: each to their own mate, but for quality of fishing the Glebe is right up there imho.

By: jamie

jamie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:50:22 +0000

hi im new my name is jame i want to ask u a question what is the best bait you have used for perch fishing ?? pleas reply

By: larford_legend

larford_legend — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:33:56 +0000

best fishery ever?

with rules like 20″ hook length your ‘avin a giraffe

By: Colin Mercer

Colin Mercer — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:40:02 +0000

Correction to above – the Trewaters peg Harry and Mark won off was 45 I think, not Peg 53 as stated. Col

By: ben

ben — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:32:22 +0000

Interesting, maybe I should have asked? But I’ve had a few issues with where you can fish in the past and always been told no. A few examples being the old peg 50 in the corner at the old Gwinear, being told I couldnt go past a peg at 14m down the banking despite this peg having a cone on it and obviously never being used.
And pollawyn 22 in the prestons last year. I had seen a picture of Richie Hull pole fishing at 20m to the island to the right from that peg the previous year, although it is dubiously on the border with 23. Derek Willan was on 23 and we had quite a debate about this and had to get one of the fishery staff to come round, but we joke about it now.

By: Colin Mercer

Colin Mercer — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:14:40 +0000

Hi Ben,
That is an interesting question. Earlier in the week I was unsure about this myself having been told “yes you can” and “no you can’t” by different people. So after drawing 35 I asked Clint for clarification. He said “yes you can”. I don’t know if it was different for that festival only but I suspect not. Col

By: ben

ben — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:09:37 +0000

Nice blog colin. Just a small point but were the rules more relaxed for the spring classic? I ask because I drew 35 twin oaks in the dynamite festival and would have loved to have fished a 16m pole line down the corner edge but there is another peg there (36) and I couldnt go past it. Interestingly I only caught one carp down that margin to the left. I know what you mean about the casting comp on those 2 lakes!