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Coop’s has asked me to give you a brief run down of a weekends fishing I recently enjoyed.
To give you a little background the water in question is a mature, clear gravel pit of around 40 acres. The lake is well featured and has a tendency to get particularly weedy as the season wears on. It was actually the first lake I ever caught a fish from, a marvelous 2lb 14oz tench back when I was three years old (Thanks for the help dad)
Anyway, my friend Tim and I decided to put some time into the lake last season and got well and truly hooked, as I did with that tench some 21 years previous. I had a hard time, losing a number of good and even a couple of special fish in various circumstances and although I counted the season a success it was always somewhat blotted by what might have been. The reason for telling you this is that without last season, learning the water and how the fish reacted to its moods and without the establishment of a good long term bait source my results this spring would not have been possible.
I had been down to the lake on the Wednesday evening and with the weather set fair I had a good idea that the fish would be moving into the shallower water and along a particular island margin. I had been concentrating at the other end of the lake until then so with this in mind out went 3 kilo’s of 20mm Nut, spread liberally between the three spots I intended to fish. I should probably point out that I had never actually caught a fish from this swim.
Friday came and I could not get out of London quick enough, I felt that other people may have the same idea but arrived to find that although there were a few people already in residence my chosen swim was still free, the other anglers still concentrating on the opposite end. After another kilo per rod the first night passed quietly but from 6am I experienced more of a red letter weekend than day. In total I had 14 takes, landing 11 carp including the lakes biggest common at 37.05 and one of it’s two biggest mirrors at 36.01. In addition I was lucky enough to land a 33.02 common, a 31.03 mirror, commons of 24.07 and 20.12, mirror’s at 24.06, 21.03, 15.12 and 18.06 and a 14.06 common to finish. The four 30′s coming consecutively in a period of 23.5 hours.
All fish came on hinged stiff linked 16mm Choc Orange pop up’s fished as a rule over a kilo of mixed 18′s and 20′s per fish, however as I ran lower on bait this was slightly reduced and I finished the session at 6.30am on Monday 12kilo’s of bait lighter, it was just one of those times when I could not get enough in. To top it off Tim joined me for the Sunday night having “enjoyed” a weekend with his girlfriend and took a stunning original mirror of 25lb 12oz.
Good luck wherever you are fishing and remember, it is worth it when it happens. The top rod took around 32 fish last season with 4 different 30’s. To have a hit of fish like this in a weekend was beyond all expectations but it just shows what can happen when everything comes together.
Thanks for reading
Jamie
Well our words cannot explain the session Nick has just had using the Choc Orange Nut Mix,
So here are Nick’s own words
During the months of January and February I had been baiting a few nice looking spots on a new syndicate water with 50-60kg of chocolate orange.
3-4 kg twice a week in 4 swims that run along the west bank. I did 10 blank nights during that time without a bleep. It all fell into place during a week planned off work in March, when I arrived only 4 fish had been caught since Jan 1st. After a blank Saturday night I moved swims on Sunday 16th March and by Wednesday I had caught 9 fish and lost 1.
Another move on the Wednesday morning lead to another 3 fish to take the total to 12. The captures included 5 of the biggest 8 fish, approx 15-20% of the total fish stock in a lake of 12 acres. All fish were taken on small 12-14mm Chocolate Orange cork ball pop-ups over 20kg of scattered 16+18mm baits. Totals as follows.
44-08
43-00
42-00
38-08
35-08
34-08
31-02
2x 20′s
2x doubles
1 stockie
What a session, well done Nick and well done the Choc Orange Nut Mix
When your looking to pick a bait for your current fishing or on a new lake, there are anumber of things you can look at to help you pick the right one, listed below are some of the thing to take into consideration:
1) Time of year – Carp require different things from a bait depending on the time of year. During the colder months they don’t need fats but do need carbohydrates. So one of our birdfood or nut based baits will be a good choice, rather than a fishmeal that can be hard for the fish to digest the fat content in cold water.
During the spring as the water warms up and the fish get moving about, they will be looking to replenish their bodies of fats and salts that they lost in winter, this is when fishmeal baits really are at their most effective.
After spawning, the carp are looking for just about anything they can find, carbs to help replace lost energy, fats to build back their body weight, by adding oils to your baits at this time of year, you will attract more fish to your baited areas.
During the autumn, carp are looking for the best food they can find, building up their reserves for winter, so that means anything in the PGB range of quality baits will be suitable, top quality bait means top quality results.
2) What is everybody else using? If the lake your on is seeing lots of fiahmeal baits (as seems to be common) then our Choc Orange nut mix or Winter Peach are a perfect alternative to this, totally different to the normal biats out there. We all know how much carp love nuts, but on many waters they are banned, so this is a fantastic alternative with a track record to be envied.
3) If you have problems with other species of fish, such as tench and bream, we may have a solution for you, our Bloowrom boilie has been proven to catch many many big carp, but it seems that our not so welcome friends the bream and tench don’t seem too keen on it, that’s not saying you won’t catch any, but you will see drastically reduced numbers being caught.
4) Size of baits- When thinking about the size of baits you want, take into account what others are using, if most people are on 14mm or 18mm baits, be different, try going large, 20mm and 24mm baits are a great alternative, and also have other advantages too, birds struggle to pick them up and seagull’s can’t catch them easily, which means that when you bait with 1kg of boilies, most of that gets to the fish, rather than half being eaten by birds!!
“This season has been by far my best ever, and, amongst the usual reasons
(I’ve worked harder at location, made more time to be at the venue and so one)
I firmly believe that a creative use of groundbait has given me a big edge.”
“Most people wanting to use groundbait tend to think of either balling it up, or method feeders. With a little thought, much more effective uses are available. On Horton this year, rather than balling in my groundbait, I’ve mixed it up as at least 50% of my spod mix, very wet, with an awful lot of pellet (of different types and sizes), plus a good helping of whole and chopped boilies. I only use a few handfuls of hemp. This mix provides a range of sizes, from the tiny specks of groundbait, right up to the hookbaits, and seems to prevent the fish becoming preoccupied with smaller items. When first spodded out, this mix creates a lovely milky cloud in the water that will hopefully drop fish down from the upper layers.”
“The fine pieces of nut in the groundbait, plus the other small feed items tend to get caught up in between gravel, in weed and so on, and keeps the smell of food in the area for long times. I’m sure that as small stuff clears the mix up, the lingering smell, coupled with the difficulty of clearing the remaining bits, will lead fish to take the hookbaits out of shear frustration! And even if my thoughts are a little of beam, the fact that this mix is so different from the usual hemp/particle/pellet spod mix must be an enormous advantage.”
” Closer in, I’ve been using the groundbait slightly differently again. The margin spots I’ve taken fish from have been tight to the bank in relatively shallow water. The Horton fish are very cagey in the edge, and so I’ve been looking to drop a single fish, with a small mouthful of bait presented in a PVA bag – and no free baits except when ‘resting’ the spots during the mornings. To make my bags, I take a chunk of frozen bloodworm, and defrost it in the base of a small bucket. To this I add a splash of tiger jank, plus the amino liquid that comes with the groundbait. A small amount of pellets (I’ve been trying some hemp oil pellets) are added, and the whole lot is mixed up with groundbait. This creates a lovely sweet smelling mix, which puts out an awful lot of attraction, with little real feed. A small bag (golfball sized) is used, with small bottom bait. This one looks to me like a pretty good winter tactic ”
My target water for this year was the mighty Wraysbury One.
I knew these fish had seen pretty much every kind of bait available to man, so when choosing my desired bait I opted for a quality food source that contained quality ingredients. I decided to go with two different boilie mixes from the Perfection Ground Baits range. The first was the Choc/Orange nut mix that I had tested during the close season and the other was a new mix we called Red Krill.
This bait was going to be the 1, it holds all of the great big carp catching qualities needed to tackle old wise carp.
I based most of my baiting plans around the Red Krill, with only the odd area being baited with nut mix. I figured that having three rods to play with I could use the Krill on two of them a and experiment further with the nut mix on the other. P.G.B also supplied me with pop-ups, bespoke course fish pellets and ground baits to suit each mix to use in conjunction with the boilies. ”
After just Fifteen hours on the lake I received a take, on the Nut! I had baited a shallow plateau from the bank during the close season, just to give them a taster. The spot was baited with 5 kilos of nut mix ground bait with chopped and whole baits added. I used a standard bottom bait straight from the bag on the hair.
My reward was a 21:04 linear. 1-0 to the nut.
My second capture came on the Krill. After spotting a fish roll I positioned a rig baited with the Krill onto the spot and baited with around a pound of bespoke Red Krill pellets and 20 or so chopped and quartered baits to get an instant leakage of the attractors. A new P.B and first 40 pounder. The King Fungus @ 40:12.
1-1 the Krill fights back.
My third capture came after baitng a spot for 6 weeks. I regularly baited with 14mm and 18mm Red Krill boilies. I also used a mixture of 4mm, 6mm and 8mm Red Krill pellets in quantities of upto 10kilos in one hit.
The fish were loving it, the bait started to dissapear daily indicating that I should get a rig on it.
I used an 18mm bottom bait on the hair.
Baby Mary @ 24:06.
2-1 C’mon The Krill.
5 days later, a different spot baited with 15kilos of nut mix boilies and 40kilos of hemp and nut mix pellets over a three week period, produced a spot that the carp visited daily to feed. After lowering the rig, sporting a Nut Mix bottom bait, I scattered a kilo of 14mm and 18mm baits over the area. The take came ten hours later.
3-Scales @ 33:04
2-2 The Nut scores again!
“My fifth and final capture for this calendar year came from another spot I had baited to its prime with Red Krill. I again baited with 14mm and 18mm boilies and the Red Krill pellet mix this time adding hemp. Again after selecting a bottom bait from the bag for the hair I lowered the rig onto the spot.
The Pug @ 39:08.
The final score 3-2. The Krill wins for this year.”
Phil
After a summer and autumn spent on 2 local club waters with a reputation for being more than a little tricky, a winter assult was planned for Yateley’s famous Match Lake.
The lake has seen some of carp anglings best over the last 20 years, and following a fish kill a few years ago, the old residents from the 80′s have been reduced to around 25 original carp. In the last 10 years there have been 2 stockings, one of Redmire Strain common’s and one of fishers pond mirror’s. These fish have not grown fast, but consistently. With a good number now into the 20lb bracket.
The bait we decided to use was PGB’s Choc Orange Nut Mix and Nut Mix groundbait, with dipped pop-up hookbaits. The first session was on the 1st of November, the plan was to give them a consistent amount of bait over the first few weeks, to get the fish used to seeing it. We were baiting up in their favorite spots and safe areas to gain their confidence in the bait we were planning to give them all winter.
After only 2 nights Jake managed to take first blood of the attack, a mid double common starting off the campaign. Then Sam had 2 in a 4 night session, his first trip of the year. Following this promising start, the lake switched off for a number of weeks, the next action came just after Xmas. For a month both of us baited the carp’s favoured winter spots, and Sam was the first to get them going, on a weeks session over the Xmas break, he managed 4 up to 32.08, which was one of the prized original carp “The Zit”.
Jake had to wait a further week before more action, another mid double common being the culprit.
Over the next few weeks, we used 3 or 4 KG of groundbait, to give the fish some food, but no allow the birds to eat it all. This was thrown in after each session, to make sure the fish were getting bait all week.
The action seemed to come in good hits, Sam had a 3 fish hit, then a 6 fish catch all 20lb+ with a 25.08 common being the biggest. Jake had a 19lb mirror, a 26lb mirror, a 28lb original called “The Thick Wrist Fish” and a mid double common.
In total, during 4 and a half months fishing, mainly 3 days sessions at a time, we managed 35 takes, landing 30, with the best fish being 32.08, backed up by 14 fish over 20lb. During our stay on the lake, there were generally 7 or 8 anglers at weekends, and there were only 15 carp out, other than the ones we caught.
As you can see by the shots, some of these young fish will continue to grow over the next few years, so we have a few scores to settle with some of the old original fish, for the time being the club waters will be our focus, but come November, we will be going back.
Just a few of the fine match lake fish caught by Jake and Sam.
After being around many very good anglers for a number of years, one thing becomes very clear, when angling skill levels are equal, the man who comes out on top is always doing something different, always keeping one step ahead.
Whether that is by using different types of bait, by perfecting a new rig, or just being the one person to fish that unpopular swim.
To be the one person everybody else is chasing you need an edge. One of the easiest places to start looking is at your bait. Not just the types of bait you use, but the way in which you present it.
Groundbait is a little used method these days, few anglers still use it as it makes their hands dirty and now favour ‘cleaner’ alternatives such as pellets and boilies. With the numbers of new products out each year there is serious scope for you to be different with your chosen bait. I have been using various types of groundbaits for the last few seasons, and although my catches have not set the world alight, they have been good during less productive times of the season when everybody is scratching for a take.
My good friend Phil Adnitt and I have put together a few pictures and tips to hopefully get your grey matter thinking. Only you know what bait you are using, and which lake you have chosen to fish this summer, but these tips are meant to get you thinking about ways which you can utilize your knowledge of a particular lake, and evolve your bait presentation to take it to a new level.
Groundbaits are available to complement most types of boilie these days and by matching the attractors using oils and flavours, etc, you can put out a bed of bait that is leaking off your signal very quickly, thus alerting the carp to the presence of food in your swim. Carp can become wary of small round food objects, but they still want the nutritional content that the boilies have. By having powdered bait in a thin layer on the lake bed (and water around it), along with the boilies and any other food items you put in, this gives a new look to a baited area. Something that might not alert the carps’ senses to a dangerous meal!
Take a look at the pictures, and try to visualize what you could do with this alternative approach.
Picture 1 – Shows a few basic examples of ingredients you could add, hemp, pellets, whole and crumbed boilies. How about adding some Sense Appeal, Multimino, hemp oil or salmon oil to give it a kick, or maybe some of the freeze dried bloodworm and insect variations?
Picture 2 – The way in which you mix the individual components together will depend on the method of delivery. Here Phil is mixing by hand to get a nice fluffy consistency which will be perfect for squeezing into balls for catapulting or casting.
Where applying the bait by hand (or Cobra spoon) you can experiment with varying consistencies of groundbait mix – you can even go as far as pouring it in as a liquid!
Picture 3 – For stinkier mixes you may wish to use a spoon to thoroughly blend the contents of the bucket. Delia would be proud!
Picture 4 – Delivery Tools. There are a number of ways to get the bait out into the lake, by hand or cobra spoon for close in work, groundbait catapult for medium range, smaller balls can go further with a boilie pult, or the latest and most effective method “The Flinger” just tie it to your line, and launch balls out to over 100 yards!
Picture 5 – It is vitally important to match the size of the groundbait ball to the chosen delivery tool. Too small and it’ll take you all day to get a bed of bait out, too large and both the distance and accuracy will suffer. Take a look at the pictures for an example for the respective methods. Let’s take a closer look at each method in turn.
Picture 6 – The Cobra Spoon. This can be screwed into a shorter one piece landing net handle and balls can be flicked out as if casting.
Alternatively it can be screwed into an extendable landing net handle and used to introduce slop (runny groundbait) or other baits in the margins.
Perfect for slipping hookbaits and freebies under marginal bushes!
Picture 7 – Groundbait Pult. A simple and straight-forward pult, ‘whopper-dropper’ style. This is a workhorse and designed to put good sized balls of bait up to 50yds.
Picture 8 – Small Catapult. If more accuracy is needed then this is much better up to 50 yards range. Use with smaller balls of bait.
Picture 9 – ‘The Flinger’. Used with orange sized balls of bait, we’ve managed to put them up to 110 yards with the right tackle. The most fun you’ll have whilst baiting up! Try clipping up to get the baits on the money every time.
Picture 10 – Here’s a tip, before you start baiting up, get a stack of baits on a bucket all ready to go – then aim to hit the rings with each free offering. Try and get all the balls of bait the same, this way your accuracy is better no matter which method you choose.
Picture 11 – PVA Bags are also a great way of using groundbait, just leave it to dry and add your broken baits and pellets and throw in a few whole boilies for good measure! If you want to moisten the mix use a little hemp or salmon oil which is not water-based so won’t dissolve the PVA.
Picture 12 – The finished parcel complete! Chuck it all in the bag, add your baited hook and cast out – simple!
Picture 13 – Here’s Phil with a pukka Ghostie. The bag pictured above, proved irresistible just 15 minutes after casting out, 1 of 14 carp hooked that day, whilst all around managed less than half that amount!
Picture 14 – And here I am with a nice little mirror from Tri-lakes, caught while putting these pictures together. Perfection Groundbaits Nut Mix doing the business as usual!
Tight lines
Alan
