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Winter Carp Fishing Tips Proven To Improve Your Catches!
By Tim F. Richardson
When times are tough and bites are few, when the lake seems to be devoid of carp and you appear to be the only life on the bank what can you do to help avoid a blank session? Here are a few insights based on experience.

You might try keeping moving your rigs every half hour and really be very serious about watching your rod tips and hitting any bleeps on your bite alarms. You will probably be familiar to your water and the fish movements and line bite patterns from the warmer months, but this does not mean you will not miss actual bites in the winter you usually might interpret to be line bites. Methodically altering casting distances when encountering line bites or even doing this deliberately is also a good edge at times to close in on fish locations.

If nothing else the splash might either spook a few fish and possibly wake them up a bite and induce a bite, or at least put you within a few yards of a fish when perhaps just casting out and leaving it might mean being nowhere near tightly shoaled fish either on or off the bottom. You can see carp rolling or showing bits of their dorsal fins or tail fins often in the evening after dark and this might often occur at set times, so keep a good look out.

Sometimes a fin might be all you see when fish do not seem willing to roll at the surface. This seems to be a good time to try rigs in upper water layers. By comparison, when you see carp rolling perhaps in the early morning or early evening for instance, a bottom bait or pop-up bait might be successful. Much depends upon building a personal knowledge of the behaviour of the fish in your water.

On some waters in winter, midday to 3 o'clock is a good period, while on others, the mid to late evening or after dark hours are better. These patterns could well gradually change as winter progresses and I've found on some waters, that by February and march times have often got round to the more conventional morning feeding periods many waters have from about 5 am to about 8 am. Sunny winter days are probably equally as productive on many waters as the windy rainy conditions; certainly multiple fish captures literally within minutes can occur and such fish can easily be some of the bigger residents too.

Often you get no liners in winter which might suggest fish are inactive, but this might suggest very sluggish extremely slow moving fish, or even that fish are hovering in the top or middle water layers off the bottom where it may be more comfortable for them in such a way them completely miss your lines.

Be aware of waterfowl and other often smaller species of fish and their habits, locations, movements and bait preferences! This can often come from having had a general course apprenticeship or a match or even game apprenticeship; these all contribute enormously to your thinking, decision-making and styles especially in winter and can really help you know more in advance about what carp are possibly doing, when and why.

One example is being aware of how and where roach and crucian carp will feed in winter, because locations where they prefer to feed might well be a good indication not only of course of natural food, but where carp might move in and feed. Most anglers realise that heat radiation from the sun impacting a fishery reach a peak on the late afternoon sunny sides of a fishery. In such areas it makes sense you will see signs of smaller fish activity, but these are great spots to try for carp.

Winter can often be very hard work and you might still fail to get a bite for various reasons, but it is possible to get bites just when you least expect it. If you do your homework you might discover a pattern linked to your water in regards moon phases, possibly in connection with various insect hatches which may be still occurring in winter and turning the fish on at such times.

Winter is a good time to exploit the hearing of carp and this involves not just sound but vibration through water. On many waters carp will readily associate with the splash of a PVA net, bag, stick, method feeder or even single bait cast into the water. This is a dinner bell for many fish even though it can spook fish too. Even tiger nuts are an effective bait in winter; crunching sounds made by fish feeding on a few free baits echo in the water and will help to draw fish in to your hook bait.

(Try trimming your tiger nut hook bait to help more sugars and a little oil release.) Ccmoore black steeped tiger nuts are a good proven winter choice even though many anglers usually associate tiger nuts with the warmer months and these contain various other substances to stimulate the fish.

Swim choice is obviously a primary consideration in successful winter so you need to do all the work you can to get into a competitive position to be in with a chance of getting on possibly the spots where the bulk of the fish population possibly are located. Carp can group up amazingly tightly in winter and their winter behaviours really has

to be seen with your own eyes before you believe it.

Perhaps try your hook baits as very light critically-balanced baits especially now, so any fish movement in the vicinity of your bait can move it off the bottom and draw more attention to it, along with providing a much more natural bait movement. Also try baits off the bottom using buoyant pop-up baits or zig-rigs using a good method or ground bait mix such as Ccmoore Nut Clouds or Active Feast for example. Crushed hemp and hemp oil are great assets at this time as are sweetcorn which are also great winter baits and free feed.

Carp certainly detect the weight of our hooks much of the time and avoid our hook baits, so tipping your hook bait with a fake piece of corn adding foam, or gluing rig foam to you hook to help counter-act the weight of your hook bait can definitely produce more fish than not doing this. Using water soluble rig foam to mask your hook point is also a very sensible trick; much bottom detritus can easily spoil your rig presentation and hooking potential!

Winter time is when your efforts in establishing your boilie bait seriously pay you back. At this time you can have hits of big fish in short time periods that are very memorable in conditions that really make you appreciate each and every one far more!

Many carp in winter seem to avoid feeding much directly on the bottom in very many areas and if they do it is frequently may be for only very brief periods indeed. a bait even 1 foot off the lake bed so your bait is right in front of any carp cruising through near the bottom can prove productive for takes literally out of the blue, even cast out blind as it were. This is a time when attractor style high flavour level baits really score well also.

The popularity of the bright yellow and pink baits flavoured with pineapple, prawn, butyric acid, Tutti Fruiti flavours and so on are well proven. More acidic flavours like the citrus fruits, black and red fruits, and some savoury flavours like cheese, and spicy flavours also do very well. However the modern diversity of flavours and their bases and components today mean that very many perhaps lesser known flavours can often do particularly well. (This is even if the name these have been called is not one usually associated with winter but more with the summer.)

Of course there is plenty you can do to add more attraction to pretty much any bait, even if it is adding a little neat flavour, betaine and protein sweetener to a can of sweetcorn the night before going fishing. Despite lower metabolic rates, carp truly respond to continuing regular routine baiting and this can seriously give you the edge when done sensibly with the right bait and even conventional fish meal baits will catch carp on very frosty mornings although there are more digestible bait options!

Boosting the levels of flavours, liquid foods, essential oils and so on will often produce better results in cold winter and spring water. If you make you own homemade boilies or dough paste etc, your focus on aiding fish digestion is of paramount importance at this time but can seriously make all the difference between an average winter and an outstanding one.

Like the carp, you need to keep your senses even more especially sharp in the winter, but you will surely reap the rewards; and even a relatively small true winter carp, resplendent in its winter cold water colours, is truly a worthy achievement!

By Tim Richardson.
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