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The problem is that a five year old will want lots of bites, which will inevitably reduce with the colder weather. I'm sure you've asked advice from the local fishing shop.

All, Of this I can assure you - HOPEFULLY I am quoting myself. """ “Carp eat between nothing and very little when the water temperature is below 50 degrees F. and what they do eat they digest probably less than 5%”.""" A couple observations and biological facts HEALTHY carp can live seven months without feeding. THIS is the reason carp do not survive the far cold extremes. ON topic (if I remember my own stuff) the warmer the sweeter, the colder the more acidic. IN cold, carp will continue instinctive foraging behaviour and attention to tactics is far more important than bait choice Phone

Hi Peter, scroll down this Link to the bit about Black Groundbaits for Winter. I haven't given it a go myself though (I tend to give the cold weather a miss these days) but there seems to be plenty buying it. https://www.anglingdirect.co.uk/community/beginners-guide-groundbait-101

Nothing amazing, I'm privileged to live besides one of the Norfolk & Suffolk Broads, luck of birth! The local 'bream patrol route' runs past my garden and bream are notoriously easy to catch, especially when using molasses and garlic flavoured cloud bait. Okay, so the gear used clearly makes a difference. Depending on the tide I'm fishing in one to four feet of water and a size 18 under a self cocking float, no additional shot, one red and one white maggot or a knob of garlic flavoured bread paste on a size 10 fished 4 to 6 inches over depth normally does the business during summer and autumn. Some variations if it's windy and blowing onshore then I do add a shot or two, even a ledger. It can be all to easy! Bit harder for the rudd though, still a self cocking float but fishing up in the water and over the weed rather than on the gravel and silt that the bream appear to like. Come the winter normally it's pike and perch, most likely from a dory or a kayak although I'm finding that increasingly hard so I'm more likely to be fishing from the bank now and casting a swim feeder out into the deeper water of the main broad after roach or bream which I'm really enjoying. In truth Broads piking is in serious decline, as I am, so roach is now number one!

Cheers. It's reassuring to know that she should be able to get developing done, then. As for polaroids, I have no idea what you mean ?

The reason that I move away from oily or fatty baits in the depths of winter when the water temps have dropped dramatically is that they tend to thicken up and get very stodgy and less attractive with hardly any flavour leaking from them; so I move over more to stronger flavoured baits like strong cheese or spice flavoured baits or bread or maggots or Pinkies or Redworms (which seem to have more life than lobs or dendros In icy cold water) or much leaner Luncheon meat. Plus as you probably know already most fish get a lot less liable to chase a bait downstream and need a lot less food when it’s icy cold, so a smaller and less mobile bait is usually a little better during colder spells; except for the Chub which still seem to feed well even in much colder conditions and take larger baits than most. I’ve also found that often a fish that is not really feeding in the colder water in the depths of winter will often snatch at a moving bait out of instinct or spite if it’s very near to them; like a maggot or a worm. I do sometimes use a monster crab paste or another flavoured soft paste wrapped around my hookbait if it’s a suitable bait (like a small pellet or small cylinder of meat) so that as the soft paste dissolves it sends a flavour trail downstream leading back up to the hook. I also tend to drop down in line strengths and hook sizes once the temperatures drop dramatically so my baits will drop slightly in size to suit. That’s what I usually do in the depths of winter anyway and it seems to work ok for me. Keith

You want excitement? Try barramundi fishing with 10 to 14 ft crocs eyeing you as a potential meal

Chris, Steve - I have a draft for another book, following on from A.V. My indoor hobby, now that tackle making and fly-tying are beyond my tremor-racked hands, is postal history, especially rail-related postal history ("The Night Mail crossing the border " etc ) - it does not leave much time for book production - since retiring I have often wondered how I ever found time to go to work !