Avoiding carp!

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- 07/09/2007 at 6:57 pm #29726
  TF_Smed
  hello guys just wanted any advice on baits/methods etc on how to avoid carp!!!
  
  ive got a non-carp match coming up next week on a local lake thats stuffed with skimmers and roach and errr CARP!
  
  ive done a few sessions on there over the last few weeks with some success (60lb of bream/skimmers) and some not so good (3 lost rigs and 80lb of lumps)!!
  
  anyway just wanted to know if anyone has any suggestions of groundbait the would attract skimmers and not so much the carpy things!!
  ive tried sensas magic and thought id cracked it till i got carped out one one session!!!
  the lake is around 12ft deep and it seems you have to bomb the bait down to the bottom or they come up in the water to the slightest cloud! resulting in liners etc
  also feeding by pult is a real kiss of death cos the carp hear it from a mile away!
  
  funny thing is if you actully fish for the carp with pellet and paste etc you get loads of skimmers as well as the carp!
  
  any ideas??
- 07/09/2007 at 9:28 pm #64178
  TF_The Ginger magician
  you have already cracked it mate
  fish for the silvers and when it goes dead which usally indicates carp have moved in change lines it may mean that you will have to change lines a couple of times and rebuild the swim the secret is DO NOT feed more than one line just fish one till the carp show up then start another you will find that after building 2 or 3 swims and not feeding the oriiganal ones you can go back and rebuil that swim
- 08/09/2007 at 2:36 pm #64179
  TF_Smed
  sounds like a good idea that!
  thanks ill give it a try 🙂
- 09/09/2007 at 9:18 am #64180
  TF_Man of Kent
  keep firing pellets into your neighbours swim!
  
  alternatively, you could keep a cloud up in the water to keep the carp there or feed a carp line (high fishmeal) to keep them away from the skimmers on a no fishmeal line. Obviously keep the carp line we fed.
- 09/09/2007 at 9:19 am #64181
  TF_Man of Kent
  should have read “well fed”
- 10/09/2007 at 2:20 pm #64182
  PoolFodder
  Fish like Zinky,he manages to avoid them every time he goes fishing.
- 10/09/2007 at 4:53 pm #64183
  TF_Hillbilly
  Beat me to it Steve. 🙂
- 11/09/2007 at 5:54 am #64184
  torchwood
  iam good at avoiding carp just ask kev 34 LOL
  torchwood
  http://www.torchwoodtackle.com
- 11/09/2007 at 8:33 pm #64185
  Anonymous
  go to willinghurst !! they avoid you there.
- 12/09/2007 at 2:17 pm #64186
  lewis
  Have you tried fishing shallow close in with chopped worm and caster? Carp will be reluctant to feed too shallow too close to the bank, say five metres, and you might catch the skimmers and roach quicker on this line too!
  12ft of depth poses a few problems I must say 🙂
- 12/09/2007 at 2:41 pm #64187
  TF_spotter1707
  lewis.
  That method is a killler at Woodlands Thirsk, but it takes some bottle to ignore the anglers on carp.
  Regards Peter.
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