Winter fishing for carp

[headless]

Originally Posted by WesJones1984

By bomb you mean a method feeder? The waters were I fish don't allow ground bait mixes so I find it hard to make a mix to the right consistency for a method feeder. Would a PVA bag do the job this time of year?

Sorry for the delay in replying

by bomb I mean a small bomb Arseley ( small ledger weight with a swivel)

use the lightest bomb you can get away with. cast to the likely looking areas, leave for ten minutes and then cast to another area until you get a bite or indications such as line bites. do not put any feed in until you have located the Carp and them trickle some freebies in but be tight with the feed. feed after every fish or bite.

Good luck

Darrell

[king01]

i tried something new on thursday. i went to the local supermaaket a got a bottle of strawberry flavoring for cakes and stuff. i soaked for 2 days a large bag of strawberry boilies in it. ie half a bottle of it, all the bolilies in a carrier bag and seal it ti sweat.

i put a couple of handfuls out and had one on a hairrig with a yellow pop up boilie and had a mirroe carp within 20 minutes...it was taken very confidently..

seems like a good bait to me and will try again next week, you need to be very patient and leave ya rods out, every now and again plop out one or 2 boilies to draw the fish to the area.