Már közel harminc éve horgászom pontyra, de már előtte is horgásztam szinte mindenféle módszerrel. Régebben a már megszűnt Carp Addict Magazine szerkesztője voltam, jelenleg pedig a World Carp Classic hivatalos magazinját szerkesztem. Mindemellett tagja vagyok az ECHO-nak (Angyol Pontyhorgász Szövetség) és az ECHOS magazinnak írok.

You may have seen some of my articles, past or present, in various magazines and on international websites, about my exploits abroad in pursuit of big fish over the years. It all started with Carp Talk in 1997… though I’ve also written for Big Carp, Carp World and had my Marco Polo series of articles in Carp Fisher. The articles described my adventures abroad, covering the many different destinations I had travelled to in my quest for big uncaught foreign Carp. I outlined the different types of waters I had fished and the methods, tools and techniques I employed when tackling these foreign waters.

Been carp fishing for 20 years in north east england.been fishing since i was 5.got a bit sick of the way waters were run in the area so worked my way up to be chair of my local club.If your not part of the soloution your part of the problem!

I’m a carp fanatic who finds any excuse to get on the bank and wet some line and share some banter with my fishing buddies

Vey passionate about angling and just love Carp. Founder of Reels on Wheels which is an organisation to assist less ale/disabled anglers world wide. www.reels-on-wheels.org

Bait: Dynamite Baits Fresh Prawn 26mm boilie + Enterprise Tackle Fluoroglow maize

Carplove Team

Especially in calm weather. However their nightly feeding can end around one or two hours before sunset. As I have experienced the hours of day break are not so successful. With the fall of the temperature, the time of carp’s feeding are falling as well. It means that this time of the year the carps will feed for just a few hours a day.

The most difficult thing about winter carping is to find them, because they can stay at a completely different place from where they have been staying whole year. It is a fact that at wintertime they hardly move, they stay at one place. If we know this fact and if we know the water, we have the chance to catch some nice carps in the freezing winter weather.
But if we do not have info about this, we have no cause for being happy. Maybe with echo sounder we can find the better plcaes, but just where we can use a boat. Unfortunately this needs time, especially on a huge lake. It could be a good guideline if we know those places where a lot of carps have been caught during the autumn. As winter is coming we will have less and less good spots where we can catch fish. At last maybe we will have just one spot where we can be successful. On lakes not always the deepest spot is the best, we  should choose the middle depths, near snags and fractures, especially where the flat bank suddenly starts to go deep. The springs and the incoming waters are good spots too, because they are warmer then the water of the lake, especially if there are a good depth as well.

After we find the good spot and we catch some carp, the fish will move away. Then we will blame the weather or our bait. I have experienced that in winter the weather does not really influebce the success of the fishing. On the good spot the carps will feed during tremendous conditions.

If we go winter carping, we should choose the smaller baits, because we will be much more successful with them. The tipical winter baits contain more milk protein, robin red, liver powder. We can use different fish flours, buti n smaller ammount then in summertime. Beside these, we should add essential oils to the mix. The winter bait is good when all the flavours can dissolve in the cold water. If we do not want to deal with mixing and rolling then we can choose the Squid-liver Cold Water boilie from the S-Carp Product range. This is a great bait which we can use in cooling and in warming water.

This time of the year we do not need to prebait a lot, we should just use a small ammount in PVA bags concentrated around the hook. This contains stick mixes, fast dissolving pellets, chopped boilies and some glug. We should take care with flavouring. This time of the year we should use alcohol based liquids and not oils. It is important to check that the mix does not dissolve the PVA! As a terminal tackle we use the so called Running rig system, which is the best to notice the smaller movements.

Beside these the humanous treatment is more important in winter. We must not keep the carp on the carp mat for long, because they can die in the cold! We should release them as soon as possible.

Winter carping needs more endurance and due feresight. The clothing needs to be laminated and warm. We can find great winter clothing for quite reasonable prices. If we want to go for a longer session, we will need a warm sleeping bag and a securely working camping gas system.

Some of my friends use vans for their winter sessions, which is very useful. I hope I could give some good ideas for those anglers who are a bit afraid of winter carping, because this type of fishing is amazing and can not be compared to anythig!

Some of my friends use vans for their winter sessions, which is very useful. I hope I could give some good ideas for those anglers who are a bit afraid of winter carping, because this type of fishing is amazing and can not be compared to anythig!

Gergely Pataki – Carplove Team

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Martin Cronin. Fishery manager of Peterstone coarse lakes. Fishery manager of 9hole lakes. Fishery manager of Pentwyn lake. Syndicate leader of The Birch Syndicate. Syndicate leader of the Hendre Lake Syndicate. www.welshcarpfishing.com