Night session

[MikeyP]

Hi everyone, I'm doing a weekender this coming Saturday and Sunday on a 6 acre lake that holds a decent head of carp into mid-20s. I was going to use a big bunch of worms on one rod and hair-rigged dead maggots on the other with a small pva bag of dead maggots and pellets. What parts of the lake should I be fishing at this time of the year i.e shallow/deep, margins/middle and should I also introduce some feed or just stick with my hookbaits and a small pva bag?

[lufc999]

i think you might be better asking this question in the carp fishing forum

[Barnese]

Or not go in this cold!!! Braver man than me

[boilies]

hiya mikey. those methods you said would probably work effectively but mabey not so much this time of the year. my best advice would be to:

1. find a nice flat swim with lots of space from other anglers(diving you more room to explore the lake)

2. choose where you want to put your bait. i would suggest having one rod put out close to an island if there is one. and one further in.

3. bait: try if you can a dull coloured boilie or large pellet fished over dead maggot and small pellets.

4. technique. a standard bolt rig should work.

 

hope the advice comes in handy, good luck tight lines. boilies

[Tony 1]

Mikey I am from your neck of the woods, I have fished a lot of lakes in the Devon area if you can be more specific which venue you are planning on fishing I may be able to advise you I fully understand if it is a private venue which cannot be disclosed .

Main advice would be don't over do the freebies,keep an eye on the water for rolling fish and be prepared to move. Finally wrap up warm and get plenty of warm food and brew down your neck, its warming up from Saturday afternoon so you never know you may get Lucky.