Carp Fishing - Cyprindae Fish Secrets For Bigger Catches! - By: Tim F. Richardson

Many fish form the Cyprinid fishes group. Carp is one of the biggest of these; probably the most exciting sport fish recognisable to fishermen. Specimen carp pursuit in angling has simply exploded in the past 3 decades with good reason!

Among the large group of which carp species form a part are many other fish which fishermen are familiar with. It includes dace, rudd, roach, and nase. These smaller species are sometimes mostly herbivorous fish feeding on filamentous algae for instance. But they can also feed on mussels and snails and very much on zooplankton by particulate type feeding. Roach are classed as one of the most efficient mollusc feeders.

Other familiar Cyprindae species include bleak, bream and white bream, which all feed on zooplankton among other food items, but more efficiently than roach. In the case of bream, their predominant and strong gulp-suction feeding is very efficient in efficiently feeding on insect larvae in bottom sediments. Such feeding is called benthic feeding and carp are very well adapted for this indeed.

The upper layers of water may contain many kinds of natural food items for fish and these are fed-upon by a wide general range of species as fish have to feed anywhere food is opportunistically available at times. Filamentous algae, zooplankton and all kinds of insect larvae and emerging adult insects for example may be taken in the middle and upper layers and to a degree in lower layers.

When looking over a water when choosing a swim to fish and areas to fish in any particular swim the wind lanes you might observe present on the surface are often a good indication where fish will be more actively feeding. These can channel or focus natural food items and create differences in currents and even water temperatures and actively dissolving oxygen levels and so on.

These changes which can all impact upon fish location and feeding and your choice of swim really do impact on your catch results. Get the fishing spots right in regards such things and with a suitable rig and bait just turning up and fishing on any lake can potentially be very exciting indeed!

Of course it is a huge advantage in fishing to have many years of experience in reading many kinds of water and fishing situation to optimise opportunities to present baits to potentially feeding or obviously actively feeding fish. On any water, spending a few hours at least observing the water and assessing what is going on is often the key to a successful session especially where pre-baiting swims is impracticable.

All the external impacts on fish from the anglers’ free baits, heavy leads and number and angles of lines entering swims will come into the equation. Added to this are wind directions (sometimes multiple,) static or changing temperatures and air pressures from before your session to the end of the session.

Also important are the periods when the electromagnetic impacts upon the earth especially around the waning or waxing moon times of each month can bring certain of the bigger fish noticeably more on the feed. It’s well worth noticing areas where fly hatches are most frequent or intense, seeing a procession of caddis fly larvae exiting the surface of the water is a good sign for example.

Areas of weed or silt etc holding the highest density of natural foods like mini mussels or snails or very large bloodworm are things not to be ignored; fish are energy efficient and often spend long periods in such areas often invisible to the eye.
Yes there is absolutely no doubt that presence of anglers on fisheries these days does skew their behaviour into the illogical and frequently so.

For instance, on a refreshing south-westerly wind the bulk of the fish may be stationed off the wind completely preferring to feeding in thick weed right in the farthest point central in a lake. Such waters are common in that text book location advice in regards to weather patterns can be largely irrelevant.

On some waters only 2 or three swims will give access to the areas the majority of the carp population reside in 90 percent of the time. Hence all the other swims will be a waste of time unless pre-baiting swims significantly changes these fishes behaviour.

Pre-baiting or a least baiting other areas with free baits while you fish in a particular swim tends not to produce the best results if only done there and then or in just the very short-term. Even very short-term baiting works of course, but if big fish for example are permanently under extremely heavy pressure from anglers, a longer period baiting plan is far better over a period of weeks at least. This is obvious from manipulation of river carp feeding locations and feeding patterns as a direct result of regular pre-baiting.

It may be noted that some base mixes of baits and certain flavours are more preferred by the smaller Cyprindae fish and so you can adapt your approach in order to stimulate these more in order to draw carp faster to your swim. This preference occurs in part due to essential dietary preferences but also just as importantly due to the species selectivity of any particular individual or group of bait ingredients and flavour components stimulating any individual fish species receptor cells which detect food. You can even be selective and avoid bait mixes and flavours which pull lots of smaller fish so leaving the bulk of your free baits for the carp to enjoy and become hooked on!...

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By Tim Richardson.

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