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    Carp Fishing Tips and Theories: Book Two.
    Carp Fishing Tips and Theories: Book Two.
    Carp Fishing Tips and Theories: Book Two.
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    Carp Fishing Tips and Theories: Book Two.

    By Steve Graham

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    Steve Graham`s very popular book ‘Carp Fishing Tips and Theories’ was first published in December 2012, and ever since then Steve has been bombarded by requests from readers who wanted to know when he would write a sequel. Well here it is at last – ‘Carp Fishing Tips and Theories - Book Two’.
    Steve has been an angler for more than fifty years, and for the last twenty-five years he has fished almost exclusively for carp. During this time he has caught many huge fish, both in England and in France, including countless numbers over the magic forty pounds mark.
    Just like his first book, this one is crammed full of tips and theories that Steve has accumulated during his many years of fishing. There are more than twenty chapters, each on a different subject, and the reader is sure to find tips here that will help them to put more fish onto the bank.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Graham
    Release dateFeb 22, 2015
    ISBN9781311158994
    Carp Fishing Tips and Theories: Book Two.
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    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 - Steve Graham

      Carp Fishing

      Tips And Theories

      Book Two

      Steve Graham

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2015 Steve Graham

      All rights reserved

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you`re reading this book and you did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return it to smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thankyou for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      CONTENTS

      Re-Hydrating Baits

      Using Boilie Paste

      Fishing With A Slack Line

      Bread

      Bait Making

      Solid PVA Bags

      Preparing Particles

      Sacking Carp

      Dropping The Lead

      Bait Dips And Glugs

      Useful Knots

      Winter Fishing

      Self-Take Photography

      Weather

      Feeling The Lead down

      Pop-Up`s

      Leads And Lead Systems

      Using A Braided Main-Line

      Fishing In Weed

      River Carp

      Floater Fishing

      One Last Tip

      About The Author

      Other Books By Steve Graham

      To my children Lynne and John.

      I`m very proud of you both.

      RE-HYDRATING BAITS

      Re-hydrating baits is a tactic that has helped me to catch a lot of carp over the years. I was at a carp show in Coventry a few years ago and I got talking to one of the angling ‘names’ about this subject. He had a theory, which he explained to me, which seemed to make a lot of sense. His theory was that big carp sometimes have difficulty eating some of the hard baits that we often use, because of problems with their teeth. Carp have throat teeth, which they use on these hard baits, but as carp get older, their teeth deteriorate, just as our teeth do. The older carp of course tend to be the biggest, so these are the ones that experience this problem. His solution was to re-hydrate his boilies, which makes them softer and easier for these carp to deal with. He was a fan of soft baits for this very reason.

      Now using soft baits is all well and good, but what about nuisance fish or crayfish for example, I hear you ask. Well that`s a very good point, and it`s certainly not good for the confidence, when you retrieve the rigs in the morning to find no bait on the hair. There are ways to help here though, one of which is by using some form of bait mesh. This is often used when fishing abroad to combat those nasty little creatures known as poisson-chat, but it can also be used to fish with soft baits such as re-hydrated boilies or even paste for example.

      When fishing abroad, which most of us tend to do more and more these days, we do not always have access to a freezer to keep our boilies fresh while we`re fishing. One answer to this problem is to use ready-made boilies, but I`ve never been very happy using that type of bait. I know that ready-mades nowadays are of much better quality than they used to be, and I know of a lot of excellent anglers that use them very successfully, but I just don`t have the same confidence in them, that I do in freezer-baits.

      One theory I have as to why freezer baits tend to work better than ready-mades is that when a boilie is frozen, small pieces of ice form inside the boilie. When this boilie is then defrosted, the ice melts, which leaves small spaces within it. I think that this helps the attractors to leak out of the bait much better. Perhaps if we froze some ready-mades, the same thing would apply and it would improve them. Who knows?

      What I tend to do is to take some of my bait frozen in a cool-box with freezer blocks, and I use this bait during the first few days of the session. But what I also do is to air-dry some boilies, and then re-hydrate them when I`m there. To do this I normally just put some of the air-dried boilies into a bucket and add a little lake water. I don`t add too much, because I don`t want to wash the flavours out of the bait, so I just add lake water a little at a time and when that has soaked into the boilies I add some more until I`m happy with them.

      Lake water isn`t the only thing that you can use to re-hydrate your boilies of course. If you take some dry hemp with you, it`s a simple matter to cook this on the bank, and you can then use the water from the hemp to re-hydrate the boilies. This has the added advantage that it is increasing the attraction of your bait in a very natural way. I`m sure that you can think of many other liquids that you could use to re-hydrate your baits, and as well as re-hydrating them, you`ll be making them a little bit different too. The air-dried boilies take on all sorts of liquids and flavours, so just use your imagination and the world`s your oyster really.

      Boiling up some hemp on the bank

      When I`m fishing over silt, there is one thing that I often do which I think is a tremendous help. I place some of my boilies in a small amount of lake-water for about an hour. I don`t use much water and I don`t leave them too long, because I don`t want to wash the flavours out of the bait. What I`m trying to do is to hydrate the boilies just a little by making them take on a little water. I`m sure that you`ve retrieved your rig in the morning after it has been fishing overnight on a silty lake-bed and the boilie has taken on the smell of the silt. The dry bait just seems to suck up that silty smell, but a boilie that has taken on a little bit of lake-water doesn`t seem to take on the smell of the silt quite as much. This means that your hook-bait will be much easier for the carp to find. Now I can`t prove that this theory is correct, but my results have been very good when I`ve used this tactic. If nothing else, it gives me confidence and I always think that a confident angler fishes better than one with no confidence, so it can`t do any harm.

      Try it.

      USING BOILIE-PASTE

      The use of boilie paste is something that is under-used by most modern carp anglers, and I think that they are missing out by ignoring it.

      If you roll your own boilies then just use the same paste that you use to make them. If however you don`t make your own bait, this shouldn`t stop you from using paste. Most good bait suppliers will gladly include a small amount of the paste in with your order. You only have to ask.

      There are many different ways of using paste, but one of the easiest is to wrap a small amount of paste around a boilie. This has two big benefits. Firstly, the flavours will leak out of the paste much better than from a boiled bait, giving off much more attraction. As the paste breaks down in the water it leaves a soft uneven attractive texture surrounding the boilies, which I think the carp find natural and very attractive. I put small amounts of paste into small freezer bags and put them in the freezer until I need them. Each bag contains just enough paste to last for two or three days, and if I go for a longer session, I just take more bags of paste with me.

      Another way that I use paste is for baiting the swim. Balls of paste can be fired out with a catapult in addition to the boilies. These balls of

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