Winter Carp Fishing
You Carp anglers all know that Carp go lazy in the winter and don’t want to move too far to pick up your baits.
The best way to combat this is to spray your bait out over a wider area, more than you would in the summer time but using a lot less bait and use a good winter boilie e.g. N brutic acid Pineapple as these give a good visual for the Carp being yellow in colour and the N brutie Acid helps with flavour leakage in the cold water.
The Carp end up having to work for their food and if you keep baiting your area like this the Carp will keep active and more willing to pick up hook baits meaning winter Carp on the bank which is very special to me as I have used this method and bagged two winter thirties and four twenties over a period of 4 weeks fishing 3 nights a week.
The best way to use your end tackle is to first lengthen your hook to a length of around 12inches doing this keeps your hook bait away from you lead, you can not guarantee your hook link will land straight and lie perfect on the bottom.
I get round this hook link problem by using a PVA sticks there are many pva products on the market to suffice your needs e.g. Korda Funnel web you don’t just hook these on you thread your hook link through the stick. And when the PVA has dissolved the hook link will be left perfectly straight and camouflaged by your preferred stick mix.
I always try to match the lake bed with my stick mix, dark mix for silt and light mix for sandy bottoms; a good one for sandy bottoms is to use silver sand I find it a bit dry so I mix a drop of solar growler juice to stiffen the sand up also giving ultimate attraction.
This method keeps the lead and swivels away from the hook bait as the Carp can spook on this.
If you get your baited area to confined the fish will pick up your bait and then move to the next bait giving no indication but if the next freebie is about 2 feet away the Carp will move quickly to go and get it and pulling into the lead giving you a chance of a fish good eh so give it a go you might be surprised.