This comes up so often that I don’t think there’s one simple answer. (And I probably wouldn’t know it if there was)

Ideas that others have suggested and that sometimes work are:

a, gradually shallow up as the fish are milling about over the feed. This might be several feet off the bottom
b, fish a metre or so to one side, perhaps with a bigger bait, like paste
c, feeding more but less often seems to help sometimes too

Fish on a slope! Or fish up in the water, feed different, bigger baits.

The bottom of the pond has soft silt, and when you feed, especially groundbait or small pellets, the fish suck and blow the baits and disturb the silt, leaving a peg that looks like its solid, but you cant catch em!
Come closer till it shallows up a few inches, and re feed and start again, you will catch them then!

Matty,

You will find a sloping edge on a lake, dosen’t generally hold silt.

Therefore if you locate the bottom of a slope or shelf and fish just up it, you will find the fizzing or bubbling will be reduced and will result in more positive bites and hooked fish.

I experienced this at Bolingey in Cornwall and tried everything mentioned, however I found it best to just ping single pellets as opposed to dumping large pots.

Mike

I notice a couple you have said fish at the bottom of the shelf or slightly up the slope, anyway wat would you do if you was fishing at 14-16m and this was happening? “which does at my local water” and by fishing at that distance your 9-11m further out/past the bottom ov the shelf?

There are lots of potential reasons why fish on some venues sometimes fizz. The issue here is how to solve the problem of getting real bites when clearly there are fish in your swim which is indicated by the fizzing.

Nigel is correct as usual in suggesting that fishing slightly up a shelf is a good way of getting more real bites. You need to plumb around for side shelves and small bars on the bottom of the lake. You only need a 1 or 2 inch difference in depth over a small area to find the perfect place to target. There are not many pegs that are totally flat if you look around your swim properly with a plumbit looking for these small changes in depth.

Im not sure why your fishing at 14/16 meters into open water on the deck at this time of year. Maybe because thats what everybody else does on your venue. In my experience finding the shelves and bars in my pegs results in a better days sport than following those who think its better to fish long but blind to what features are under the water that are natural fish holding areas.

One of the most productive slops to target is the bottom of the near side shelf. Its the main area that carp usually wish to settle and feed at this time of year. The other area to target is in the margins especially if you have any space. Target those areas of your swim that naturally hold feeding fish and im sure you will catch much more over a 5 hour period of a normal match on a commercial carp venue than fishing blindly at 14/16 meters on what you believe to be a flat bottomed lake!

@Col Dumphy wrote:

I notice a couple you have said fish at the bottom of the shelf or slightly up the slope, anyway wat would you do if you was fishing at 14-16m and this was happening? “which does at my local water” and by fishing at that distance your 9-11m further out/past the bottom ov the shelf?

Fish up in the water!