seth49
Well-known member
Started watching this last night, it’s interesting how the fish take different feeder rigs, it’s on for over an hour but worth a watch.
I used to fish in a shallow bay that is now off limits. The area would be 3 or 4 acres with little signs of any fish being in there. Just the odd heave on the surface here and there. But as soon as I hooked a carp on my float gear anything up to a dozen other carp would visibly spook causing arrowhead wakes as they headed for the open water. Fortunately they came back quite quickly. No more than half an hour I'd say.For me what was most thought provoking was the reaction of the other shoal fish when a fish was hooked. For instance I try (rarely succeed) to catch a big roach by using baits such as sweetcorn, pellets, worms, large pieces of flake, etc but crucially everytime I hook a medium sized roach I might be scaring away a big one. If I cast out say a 10 or 12mm boilie for a big roach along comes a carp first! I need to come up with another cunning plan....