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Surface fishing - a beginners guide |
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Surface fishing - a beginners guide |
Surface fishing for carp
In my opinion one of the most enjoyable and exciting ways of catching carp is off the top, more commonly known as surface fishing. Carp will eat just as readily off the surface as they will off the lake bed. As with every other aspect of carp fishing good bait presentation is a key element in taking them off the surface, my personal preference is to free line, which means effectively having no terminal tackle other than a hook and hooking on some bread crust, the big advantage is that there is nothing obtrusive with this method but the big downside is that your range is limited to somewhere in the region of 12ft. Another method is to use a surface controller, there are many designs of these out there including some very effective bubble designs which we'll talk about a little later on but the majority are simply a weighted top mounting float. With a surface controller you would typically have a hooklength joined to the main line with a swivel and some silicone tubing over the eye on the main line side of the swivel then the eye of the controller float pushed over that to secure it. One thing that's often forgotten when using a controller float is that you're supposed to watch the bait rather than the float for bite indication as its all to easy for the float to end up coming free onto the main line especially if its only pushed onto some silicone tubing. There are many ways of attaching surface baits such as dog biscuits but the easiest I've found by far is to use a bait band which is basically a very small rubber band (approx £1 a pack) and stretch this over the bait and slip it up the shank of the hook, that way you're bait will float with the hook facing downwards in the water which should help to achieve a good hookhold in the lower mouth.
More on this subject later
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