rayner
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Just this morning I've prepared 2 kilo of tares to last me until the end of October.
It got me thinking of the changes I make through the year with the baits I use.
The start of last season I committed to totally ignoring carp preferring silver fish.
From Christmas of 2014 I decided to have only one day a week messing with carp and fish my other days for roach.
That then progressed to fishing how I did when I was far younger than now. From the first time when I was around 10yrs old until I had a very serious health issue in 1998 I was very happy running a stick down the Trent or fishing the rivers Glenn and Upper Welland.
Unfortunately I can't return to that kind of fishing buy can target the same species. So the end of last summer I came to the conclusion that for some reason I wasn't enjoying fishing nearly as much as I did back then.
OK big weights come easy on commercials and if that's your thing that's fine by me. I have enjoyed commercial carp fishing when it was new to me but it's become very old hat in double quick time.
So as far as I'm concerned carp are not even in any waters I fish. A couple of years now I've gone back to bread punch through winter and really had a good time, even though the last month both the roach and skimmers are dodging me.
I'm now on pinkies and caster over groundbait, any warmer days it will be hemp and tares which is probably my favourite bait. Hemp, it's a bait I've used as feed but not been able to use as a hook bait for some time but I now can hook hemp with no trouble with the use of a simple cork.
I've totally given up on pellets, the only plus for pellet is they're cheap. Trouble is they attract carp, a species out of favour with me.
They are an excellent bait for skimmers and Crucians I will try not to use expander pellet but the jury is out on that one as yet.
Other baits that I will ignore are meat a bait that has caught me a shedload of fish, sweet corn a decent bait but it attracts what I'm trying to avoid.
The only baits I hope to use will be maggot, caster, worm, hemp, tares and bread.
Does anyone else have reasons for baits they will not use.
It got me thinking of the changes I make through the year with the baits I use.
The start of last season I committed to totally ignoring carp preferring silver fish.
From Christmas of 2014 I decided to have only one day a week messing with carp and fish my other days for roach.
That then progressed to fishing how I did when I was far younger than now. From the first time when I was around 10yrs old until I had a very serious health issue in 1998 I was very happy running a stick down the Trent or fishing the rivers Glenn and Upper Welland.
Unfortunately I can't return to that kind of fishing buy can target the same species. So the end of last summer I came to the conclusion that for some reason I wasn't enjoying fishing nearly as much as I did back then.
OK big weights come easy on commercials and if that's your thing that's fine by me. I have enjoyed commercial carp fishing when it was new to me but it's become very old hat in double quick time.
So as far as I'm concerned carp are not even in any waters I fish. A couple of years now I've gone back to bread punch through winter and really had a good time, even though the last month both the roach and skimmers are dodging me.
I'm now on pinkies and caster over groundbait, any warmer days it will be hemp and tares which is probably my favourite bait. Hemp, it's a bait I've used as feed but not been able to use as a hook bait for some time but I now can hook hemp with no trouble with the use of a simple cork.
I've totally given up on pellets, the only plus for pellet is they're cheap. Trouble is they attract carp, a species out of favour with me.
They are an excellent bait for skimmers and Crucians I will try not to use expander pellet but the jury is out on that one as yet.
Other baits that I will ignore are meat a bait that has caught me a shedload of fish, sweet corn a decent bait but it attracts what I'm trying to avoid.
The only baits I hope to use will be maggot, caster, worm, hemp, tares and bread.
Does anyone else have reasons for baits they will not use.