My fishing on lake 8 was a progression, carefully going through a cycle. Fishing swims for a good length of time to get to know them, carefully noting the topography and weed growth and any signs of fish there or elsewhere, fishing a variety of methods and approaches.
You'll soon find out what doesn't work!
However, there are times when you turn up at a lake, assess the situation and make exactly the right choices and it's available time here that makes the difference.
If all you have is one night then you don't have time for the above cycle, you're forced into choosing the most obvious methods.
However, there are times when you turn up at a lake, assess the situation and make exactly the right choices and it's available time here that makes the difference.
If all you have is one night then you don't have time for the above cycle, you're forced into choosing the most obvious methods.
So here is a lake (https://thecarpcatcher.co.uk/thecarpcatchers_blog.php?post=67) that was covered in Lillie's with large open areas. If I had time I'd try to coax the carp to my game, find out other ways of catching them, but I didn't have time, so I went for the obvious tactic. Solid PVA bags amongst the loose Lillie's.
That's where the carp are and I caught four in those twenty-four hours, going out in the boat to extract one. Eventually though these methods would start to fade and then what do you have to fall back on?
After a slow start in the spring and early summer on the Woolpacks lake 8 in 2015 things began to pick up in July and by August/September I started to haul.
Why is that?
As with many lakes the difficulty is in finding the key to success (as well as other factors like weather, spawning etc in the early season).
That's where the carp are and I caught four in those twenty-four hours, going out in the boat to extract one. Eventually though these methods would start to fade and then what do you have to fall back on?
After a slow start in the spring and early summer on the Woolpacks lake 8 in 2015 things began to pick up in July and by August/September I started to haul.
Why is that?
As with many lakes the difficulty is in finding the key to success (as well as other factors like weather, spawning etc in the early season).
If what you and others are doing isn't bringing results (or the results expected) then what are the alternatives?
Adapt, not just your methods, but yourself..
As a legendary Cambridge angler once said to me, "If you fish like everyone else Steve you'll catch the same as everyone else, bugger all!".
And so it is, after that slow start I began to do something different, to look at and do things in another way and started to catch every session.
This is why the cycle is important, because it builds not fades.
Adapt, not just your methods, but yourself..
As a legendary Cambridge angler once said to me, "If you fish like everyone else Steve you'll catch the same as everyone else, bugger all!".
And so it is, after that slow start I began to do something different, to look at and do things in another way and started to catch every session.
This is why the cycle is important, because it builds not fades.
