bare with me as I'm new to this but any help will be greatly appreciated so here goes.

I'm going to be starting at a new venue and i can get away for a 24 hour session, if you turn up and see carp moving do you cast to them without knowing what bottom you will be fishing over? will that not spook them away having the lead splash close to them?

would you use your marker and lead to find a spot near them or would that ruin any chance of catching?

how much bait do you put out and how often do you recast a rig if your not getting bites? do you keep putting bait in your swim if your not catching and how often would you do that?

if you don't see any fish activity when you turn up would you use your marker and lead to find a sweet spot and pile a load of bait in and hope they come to you?

if your on the fish will spodding over them scare them away?

the lake is only about 2.5 acres and its heavily fished, stocked with about 100 carp from 8 to 25lb