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    Jerome, you're famous!

    in Pictures, Stories & Video

    Posted

    Mark,

    The basic comments are regarding the extreme caution with which the carp are trying the bait: basically the process of sucking and blowing with which we are all familiar with. There's one guy on there who's sure that fishing with dough, he doesn't have this problem :D .

    And of course there are many compliments on the video as well. Well done Jerome!

    Saludos,

    Flyrod Carping in the Mud

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    Mmm,

    I have never tried flyfishing in my life. So perhaps I'm on slippery ground here. What I have done a lot in the past however is freelining a piece of bread on the surface. With so many carp tightly packed in a shallow pool, I'm sure you could turn them on to surface feeding with some pieces of bread or dogfood. Why don't you tie some "bread" flies and cast right into the middle of your baited area. I'm sure they'll go for it and it'll look spectacular when they "slurp" that fly right off the surface.

    It's like combining two worlds of carpfishing. Don't know if for you guys is sufficiently "legitimate" though :D

    Know a good cliff from where I could jump?

    in Pictures, Stories & Video

    Posted

    Thanks Jerome,

    I also want to stress that this trick with the safety clips should only be used in combination with rocks. Please don't use leads for this! I know it's been done on a large scale in France to get the carp straight to the surface, but I think that is a very selfish way of fishing. Imagine every time you hook into fish, you leave 100-150grams of lead on the bottom :D

    But try it with some rocks and find out for yourselves: after loosing the weight, carp will very often come straight up to the surface!

    And Jerome, without a bit of planning and experimenting it wouldn't really be fishing :D

    Know a good cliff from where I could jump?

    in Pictures, Stories & Video

    Posted · Edited by Mario Kok

    Jerome,

    Sounds like you need a "French" setup here. Earlier, I posted about using rocks instead of lead together with Korda safety clips. Put the rubber loosely on the clip, only covering on leg instead of both legs of the clip. Put it tight enough though to create a bolt rig. Now, if a carp hooks itself, it will bolt hard as usual but with the difference that it will suddenly loose the resistance of the weight, as the stone will be torn out of the safetyclip. Very often, this has the result that carp will bolt to the surface, hence away from the snags.

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    In addition, you could install some sort of floater on your line, which would keep the line off the bottom. Works great with floating braided lines.

    Most ideally, you would have a boat handy which allows you to engage the fish when you're right on top of it.

    The combination of above mentioned measures obviously works best.

    Try it and you'll see it works...

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    Sunday Carping

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    John,

    When is the book coming out? Or did I miss it already? Seriously man, so much more refreshing to read about pure emotional fishing than all that commercial cr*p that's being published, especially in Europe. And I don't even flyfish...

    The story of a carpers wife

    in Carp Locally & Fishing Reports

    Posted

    I never really understood those comments about wifes not enjoying the fishing. If fishing is such a big part of your life, you'd better make sure you find a wife or future wife that likes it, right? :D But seriously, if your partner doesn't want to share your hobby, that's ok, but don't wine about it. You picked her!

    I actually met my current wife, who is Mexican, whilst carp fishing and camping in Finland. Oh yes, and I'm Dutch of course. What are the odds...

    She happened to be the sister of one of my drinking buddies in Finland (sorry Julio :D ). During one of my fishing trips, he dropped by together with his sister and another friend who were visiting him in Finland, to share some beers and do a bit of BBQ'ing. Later, after his sister and I were engaged, we became friends again :D

    So my wife knew from the very, very beginning what my hobby was all about. And she also didn't necessariliy enjoy the fishing itself from the beginning, but certainly enjoyed the romantic atmosphere of camping, campfires and basically the outdores experience. Plus the fact that my "weird" hobby seemed very much something that I enjoyed, even though most people were doing something else. I guess she appreciated the "stubborn" factor. "Some guy who can enjoy himself, camping alone on the seashore (Finnish brakish sea waters hold carp), at peace with the world and himself...". Anyhow, nowadays we go together every now and then, especially for one-nighters. The 3 day sessions are a bit rough on her, especially with the hot Mexican conditions, so she joins me one out of three nights. Great stuff. So for me, it really works that we can both enjoy being out there together. Some real quality time. I can imagine that that only gets better if we would have kids one day...Ok, enough said. You'all do your thing, but I sure appreciate the lady's presence at the shore :D . She even kisses the carp when she put's them back...You go Lety!

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    Saludos.....

    Big kitty

    in Other Species Stories

    Posted

    I remember one session with Luc on Du Der in France. Giant roaches had been nibbling on our 40 mm (!) boilies all morning and even accidentally hooking themselves. I got a bit tired of reeling in roaches from 200 meters distance so I let the poor thing hang on there for a couple of minutes. All of a sudden, a big cat hit that roach so hard, it pulled my 13ft rod straight over the rodpod into the mud. It hit so hard and fast, the baitrunner, which was engaged, never got a chance to give line. The 20kg Fireline got pulled into the spool and blocked it. Luckily the monster broke the line and left me my handbuilt CJW in the mud.... :D

    Big kitty

    in Other Species Stories

    Posted

    Luc, a very good friend of mine from Holland, just returned from a carp fishing trip to France. He didn’t catch any carp, but then again, I understand why: he happened to hook this kitty on a triple Squid&Octopus boilie. No wonder there weren’t any carp around…

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