My Fishing Day Yesterday...HELP - Talk Angling fishing chat and tackle advice

Gadz · 10th December 2006, 01:06 PM

Hi all,

Me and my freind went fishing yesterday it was a small fishing lake which has been known to fish very well it contains tench,perch,roach,carp and bream and was shockingly bad

my friend only cought a perch and this was on a waggler float with maggot we were specifically going for carp they just didnt seem to be about, although my friend did have a swimfeeder on the bottom with a bitealarm and we didnt hear it go once

... i have been reading and alot of people recommend "ledgering" for carp, i have heard of this method but have no clue on how to setup this method can someone help me please? hope to hear from you all!

Gadz.

woody1 · 10th December 2006, 05:34 PM

First off you need to have an idea as to where the carp are!. Then its a safe bet that either corn, pellet, worm or dead red maggots will attract some interest. At this time of year if i know i,m on fish but i need to set the tip up this is what i do. A Nice soft all through action tip rod, 4/5lb reel line. and if you click on the link below there is a very basic diagram of the sort of set up you need.
www.anglersnet.co.uk/rigs/legerrig/htm

woody1 · 10th December 2006, 05:40 PM

Sorry mate. The link should read.

www.anglersnet.co.uk/rigs/legerrig/.htm

Gadz · 10th December 2006, 07:09 PM

none of the links work got any more links? id like to have a look

Gadz.

royst · 10th December 2006, 07:36 PM

Carp Fishing Rigs

Try this one

waveneyone · 11th December 2006, 03:47 PM

I don't know where you were, but the water temperature dropped from 9.8 C on Friday to 8.7 on Saturday to 7.3 here yesterday. That is 2.5 degrees in 48 hours. Although 7.3 is still higher than normal for the time of the year, the drop in temperature stopped a lot of fish feeding yesterday here. 12lb won a match where a fortnight ago, 75lb won it. Don't always blame the water, bait or tackle for bad catches.

woody1 · 11th December 2006, 05:46 PM

Sorry Gadz, i found out later that the links were U/S but i couldn,t edit them.

Try,
Anglers Net - The UKs Online Fishing Magazine

polepot · 11th December 2006, 08:16 PM

Quote "Don't always blame the water, bait or tackle for bad catches."
Sometimes it's just the angler