Carp nearby

[Byrdthefisherman]

Hello fellow anglers. I'm primarily a Bass angler but I have a nice size pond beside my house with quite an abundance of some pretty big carp. This may sound silly but what do you catch carp on? Never caught one so I would like to try it out. Thanks

[Norfolkdan]

In summer, you could just use some floating bread freelined, should get a few then

[Anthony78]

sweetcorn,bread,luncheon meat,worms,maggots,cheese,meatballs,sausage meat,peperami the list goes on, and thats before you walk in to the tackle shop. Best thing to is to speak to the other anglers on the lake I'm sure they can help you out.

Ant

[craynerd]

14 hours have past on this topic, and noone has said boilies!!!!!!!

 

try corn....

 

important thing seems to be the rig, i.e hair rig, and dont hook ur bait!

[Byrdthefisherman]

WHAT!!!??? Don't hook your bait?!? Thanks for the input on what you guys catch'em on. I'm gonna try a search on some carp rigs. You guys fish for Largemouths over n the U.K.?

[carping_mad]

hello mate, i can PM you a few links for rigs..etc.etc or just take a peak at the carp page on the angers net homepage, or alternativly take a look at the link in my sig

 

Good luck, and have fun buddy. lol

[Newt]

Anthony78:

Best thing to is to speak to the other anglers on the lake I'm sure they can help you out.

LOL - Ant78, the odds that there is another carp angler on the lake are tiny-to-vanishing.

 

Byrd - not trying to run you off because this is a great forum but give a look at www.carpanglersgroup.com for some ideas. It is a North American carping forum (US/Canada mostly) and has members all over the US. Chances are excellent you can find someone in your part of the country.

 

And FWIW, lots of us on the that forum are converted bass guys who do still chase old bucketmouth from time to time.

 

The UK basically does not have freshwater bass - largemouth or smallmouth. A few but very rare. Pike angling is the UK equiv. of Bass angling for us.