Baiting Strategies on a New Water
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In the last year rather than stick to one main syndicate water I have fished lots of waters both in the UK and France. Most of these waters were completely new to me, many I had not even seen before I started fishing. Of course I could write about how I used watercraft, searching for gravel spots, weed beds, bars, drop offs, gulleys, bottlenecks and all the usual elements that go into choosing our swim and the places we fish in them. I’m going to take that as read though and concentrate on feeding. When I approach a new water; unless I know for certain the fish are feeding heavily, and fish are getting caught, it’s unlikely that I will start by creating large beds of particles or boilies from the start.
Fishing so many different waters has coincided with me keeping more accurate records than I’ve ever done. A great idea I only wish I was more consistent. One thing that has become apparent from my records is that my most common form of first night approach is a small PVA mesh bag of crumbed boilies, sometimes combined with three or four pouches of broken and whole boilies. I also often apple core the hookbait by picking off the skin, something I started doing while barbel fishing on the Trent. I want maximum attraction and minimum feeding and I want to leave the fish looking for more. Often to increase attraction I will wrap the boilie in paste, and the apple coring also improves the adhesion of the paste to the boilie. When I get a response which sometimes can be very quickly, or as a result of observation having been on the water a few hours, I can reassess the situation.
only been here a couple of hours
If fish are apparent in numbers, feeding heavily, or cruising patterns are becoming obvious, I can then confidently create a baited area to stop or hold the carp while I do my best to hook one. One thing I won’t have done is overfeed a swim when perhaps the fish are not being very cooperative.
Cheers Ron
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Baiting Strategies on a New Water
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