94lb Carp!

[Newt]

Its also a way to fish beyond the range you could cast.

 

Its not a style I think I'd enjoy but I have places where I can use other styles and tactics. Probably if there was no other reasonable way to fish where I lived, I'd use that method and come to like it.

 

When I lived in North Carolina, we had several large fish-in gatherings each year with carpers from around the area - North & South Carolina, Virginia, and a smattering from other places. They were about the only time some of us ever got to see each other and some of our regulars were Europeans who were in the US working. The Americans and the Brits used normal bank tactics but when we fished several of the larger lakes, there were 2 anglers from France who preferred to inflate a rubber boat and use that to bait up and fish well beyond any range we could cast.

 

The carp in our area only ever saw anglers when we showed up which might be every 2 or 3 years so the only reason for fishing a particular place or for using a specific rig or bait was angler preference. You fished with what made you comfortable.

[Dick Dastardly]

Exactly the same methods used at our place by 99% of the anglers.Not my style but it does work.

 

A bit dissapointed to have lost the world record but hey thats fishing! We will be back!!

[poledark]

Today,I was talking to a guy who fishes that lake,and knows the swim, and asked "why the boat"? Seems that the bait is often rowed out past several small islands/snaggy areas/sunken trees. A large poly ball is fixed over depth. Sometimes stakes are driven in on the edge of the snags/islands to keep the line from getting caught up, and the line passes round these.

 

Not sure why the polyball, I didn't think to ask, but it would make sense if the line breaks, it would help to locate the fish maybe?

 

Den

[RobStubbs]

Today,I was talking to a guy who fishes that lake,and knows the swim, and asked "why the boat"? Seems that the bait is often rowed out past several small islands/snaggy areas/sunken trees. A large poly ball is fixed over depth. Sometimes stakes are driven in on the edge of the snags/islands to keep the line from getting caught up, and the line passes round these.

 

Not sure why the polyball, I didn't think to ask, but it would make sense if the line breaks, it would help to locate the fish maybe?

 

Den

 

The polybal is to bring the line up sharply off the bottom, and over the snags - rather than having it dragging through or laying on them. (at least that's how I understand it)

 

Rob.

[poledark]

Makes sense Rob,

 

Den

[Dick Dastardly]

Yes that's right guys. Its just an adaptation of my "weed rig" (which in it self is just a variation of a pike anglers ledger rig) its to stop the line sinking overnight into the weed between the clear patch and the rod!

 

Not so much for avoiding snags (like the original pike version).At Dijon most of the fishing is by rowing out the baits to baited clear spots in the middle of dense weed.

 

Effective but despite my hand in it not a method I really like.

 

Between this and "Double spooling" to fish ultra long ranges on some of the big waters like Chantecoq it certainly makes defending the "trapping not angling" argument very hard!

[FaTzy]

Gd luck to the man! i have heard he caught it at 86lb or something like that a few months/years back.

 

Would love to have it on the end of my rod!!

[Team Man]

It gives a date of January 11th 2010

 

Check out the Trees in the Background, they seem to have an awfull lot of leaves on them for a January day

 

 

I suppose it must be a lot different down there in France

Edited January 25, 2010 by Team Man