Rig will make zero difference. A small carp will take any rig that a big carp will. A single will easily eat 30mm baits.
In a lake with a mix of small and larger fish, just have the confidence to fish single hook baits if you want to target the larger fish. Putting out free bait will just attract the small fish. That or just work your way through the bites and the bigguns will come.
Whatever you are doing is working if you're catching. Just do the same but, fish single hook baits in the edge. You will not catch as many, but you will catch the bigger fish. You just need to have the confidence to do it & stick with it is all.
Carp anglers in general tinker far to much. Carp fishing is easy, it's only us that makes it hard most of the time by constantly tinkering. Once you have a rig and a bait that is working for you, changing everything is more likely to lead to you blanking than making things better. So many anglers want to change everything after a couple of blanks. Truth is, the fish were just not feeding for a variety of reasons. They change everything that was working for them... Then when the fish are feeding again, they blank, because they changed what was working for them. It becomes a vicious circle.
In a lake with a mix of small and larger fish, just have the confidence to fish single hook baits if you want to target the larger fish. Putting out free bait will just attract the small fish. That or just work your way through the bites and the bigguns will come.
Whatever you are doing is working if you're catching. Just do the same but, fish single hook baits in the edge. You will not catch as many, but you will catch the bigger fish. You just need to have the confidence to do it & stick with it is all.
Carp anglers in general tinker far to much. Carp fishing is easy, it's only us that makes it hard most of the time by constantly tinkering. Once you have a rig and a bait that is working for you, changing everything is more likely to lead to you blanking than making things better. So many anglers want to change everything after a couple of blanks. Truth is, the fish were just not feeding for a variety of reasons. They change everything that was working for them... Then when the fish are feeding again, they blank, because they changed what was working for them. It becomes a vicious circle.
In reply to Post #16
That certainly would be a leap of faith. The pups have enjoyed S2's so not luring them in with a spread of bait and just have a good food source on the hook makes a lot of sense.
Thanks for giving this a different angle 🙂
That certainly would be a leap of faith. The pups have enjoyed S2's so not luring them in with a spread of bait and just have a good food source on the hook makes a lot of sense.
Thanks for giving this a different angle 🙂