Carp Fishing Tips And Theories: Book Three

By Steve Graham

Steve Graham has been an angler since he was eight years old, and caught his first carp more than fifty years ago. Since then he has caught more than 130 carp of over forty pounds in weight, but he is as keen today, as when he first started fishing, all those years ago.
When Steve wrote his first two carp fishing tips and theories books, they were very successful indeed, but the last one was written six years ago, so he felt that a more modern version was needed. Here is that book at last, in which he gives many tips and theories on carp fishing. This is not just a modern version of his old books however, because the content is all totally new.
This book has chapters on a multitude of different subjects, and is likely to become one of the most popular books for anyone interested in carp fishing. There is a comprehensive chapter on rigs, which is not to be missed. This gives details of all the rigs that Steve uses today, not only explaining how to tie them, but also how, where and when to use them. The chapter on alternative hook-baits is absolutely fascinating too, and is worth the price of the book for that chapter alone.
It`s a marvellous little book, and anyone reading it is bound to find something within its pages, that will help them to put more carp on the bank.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steve Graham
• Release date: May 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005628826

Steve Graham

Steve Graham is a retired financial adviser, who now lives in Staffordshire. He is married to Anita and they have four children – Lynne, John, Diana and Gary, and three grandchildren – Logan, Dylan and Sami. Not forgetting their dog Stan, a Springer Spaniel / Border Collie cross, that is loved by them all. Now that he has retired, Steve spends most of his time doing the things that he enjoys most, which includes writing, walking. Carp fishing, and looking after his grandchildren.

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CARP FISHING

TIPS AND THEORIES

BOOK THREE

Steve Graham

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INDEX

Using Boilies

Showing Fish

Line Twist And Line Care

Preoccupation

Spring

Alternative Hook-baits

Fishing At Night

Swim Choice

Oxygen

Salt

Fishing At Range

Rigs

About The Author

Other Books By Steve Graham

To my wife Anita.

Thank you for all of your help and encouragement.

USING BOILIES

Some anglers like to make their hook-baits very attractive, so that it draws the carp's attention to them, whereas others prefer to make the hook-bait look like all the free offerings, but which is the best way?

Well the answer to that is that both methods work at times.

On short day sessions I often like to get a lot of attraction into the swim, without over-feeding the fish, and one way of achieving this is by making the boilies that I use to feed the swim very attractive, with the use of various powders and liquids. The way I do this is as follows –

I take some boilies out of the freezer, and while they are still frozen, I put them into a good quality strong freezer bag. Don't use cheap thin freezer bags, or when you start adding liquids, the bag may well split, and the liquids will probably end up all over you. I know this because I've made that mistake myself in the past, and it`s very frustrating, and also very messy. The reason that I put the boilies into the bag while they are still frozen, is that when I add liquids to them, as they thaw out, the liquids tend to get sucked into the boilies, rather than just coating the outsides. Now some people use ready-made shelf-life boilies rather than freezer baits, but this really isn't a problem. Simply put the shelf-life boilies which you want to treat, into the freezer bag, and pop it into the freezer overnight. You can then add liquids to those frozen ready-mades, in the same way that you can to freezer baits.

The type of liquids that you add to the boilies at this stage is entirely up to you, but I normally use some bait dip or liquid food, that is similar to the boilies themselves. There are no hard and fast rules here. The idea is just to add liquid attraction, which will be absorbed into the bait, and then leak out into the water when you introduce the boilies into the swim. Don`t add too much liquid, because we don`t want the boilies to be swimming in the stuff. Just add enough to coat the outsides of the bait, and then leave it to be absorbed. If you want to get more liquid into the boilies, then you can refreeze them after the liquid has been absorbed, and then add some more liquid to the refrozen boilies. I don`t normally find the need to do that however. I sometimes add a small amount of oil to the boilies as well. I think that the oils tend to rise towards the surface of the water, and may encourage fish to drop down towards the baits, but be careful which oils you use, especially in cold water conditions. Some oils congeal in the cold water and are not very attractive at all. I find that a small amount of hemp oil works quite well in cold water, but if in doubt, then don`t use oils. In warm water conditions, I often like to use some salmon oil, which I find works very well.

Once I have added the liquid, or liquids, to the boilies in the freezer bag, blow into the bag to inflate it slightly, then twist the top of the bag to make sure that the liquids don`t escape, and give the bag a good shake, to make sure that the boilies are all coated evenly.

Now is the time to add the powders.

Once again, what you use now is entirely up to you, but I tend to use either a stick mix or even boilie crumb, but I usually add small amounts of other powders too. Some of the things I add are betaine, green-lipped mussel powder, liver powder, and garlic. Carp find all of these very attractive, but I'm sure that you can think of a few things yourself. Mix these powders together and add them to the bag, before blowing into it to inflate it slightly as before, before twisting the top, and giving the bag a good shake once again.

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owders that work well

Leave the boilies to defrost in the bag, and you will find that they will all be coated in a mixture of the attractive powders. When these boilies are introduced into the swim, the liquids will be released into the water giving off a lot of attraction, and the powders will enhance that attraction even more. In addition, I think that the texture of baits prepared in this way looks more natural than a bland round boilie, which can only help. On short day sessions, just a few boilies will get the attention of the carp far more quickly that three or four times as many standard boilies,