{"id":18115,"date":"2014-01-01T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=18115"},"modified":"2022-01-25T17:38:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T16:38:13","slug":"atmospheric-pressure-and-locating-carp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/atmospheric-pressure-and-locating-carp\/","title":{"rendered":"Atmospheric Pressure and Locating Carp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">To me location is the most important factor that you need to get right whilst carp fishing. You can have the best baits and rigs in the world, but if you don’t place them in the correct place they will count for very little.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I am sure we all take weather conditions into account when deciding where to fish at any given time of year. You know, such things as fishing into a nice warm South Westerly blow or fishing on the back of a cold North Easterly, but how many of us actually take into account the atmospheric pressure when deciding where to place our baits? We all know that a low pressure front will usually get carp feeding well on the bottom, but what about high pressure?<\/p>\n<p>This question came into my mind has I was just sorting through a few photographs and I was really reminded of a week I spent in France on the Angling Lines venue Le Monument at the end of March 2012.<\/p>\n <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Easy to see where it gets its name from!<\/span>\n<p>The forecast was for really high pressure all week and cold clear nights with warm clear sunny days \u2013 not really the best of conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving at the venue at about 11.30am we were met by Mark Walsh (the owner) under cloudless skies with an air temperature already of 23 Deg. C. Mark gave us a quick tour around the lake and left us to it. I then spent the next couple of hours walking around the lake with a marker rod to see what I could find. The lake was more or less split in half by a large central island. It proved to be relatively shallow with depths ranging mainly from 2 to 5 feet with the odd deeper area up to about 8\u00a0 or 9 feet if I remember correctly. It has often been said that carp will feed in the shallower area’s of a lake during periods of high pressure, so with this in mind I placed two rods in just three feet of water and the other one in about 6 \u00bd feet of water.<\/p>\n<p>The first night I just fed about 20 boilies over each rod, not wanting to put much bait in until I had more idea of where the fish were feeding. Apart from a couple of bream, nothing else happened, but I saw a couple of fish roll in the area between my two shallow water rods so I was happy enough where I was. After seeing these fish, I introduced some more boilies, plus hemp and lake pellet. With the really high pressure I would keep 2 rods tight to the island (in 3 feet of water even at night when the temperature dropped sharply) and try my third one in more open water and at 6 \u00bd feet deep.<\/p>\n<p>My first fish came at about 7.30pm on the Sunday (a mirror of 24lb +), and was followed by 2 more the same night, all the fish coming to one rod tight to the island. The same thing happened the following night and so a feeding pattern was beginning to emerge. With this in mind I decided to reel all my rods in at 12pm, introduce a bit more bait and then not recast the rods again until 5pm. This \u2018rested\u2019 the swim for a good while, but also meant that I would be making no disturbance before the start of the first feeding spell.<\/p>\n <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">There were some nice commons!<\/span>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">This worked well through the week, and by feeding the 2 island rods consistently I got them both producing well, whilst the open water rod (only about 40 yards away), produced just 1 fish all week. I suppose I could have moved my open water rod but I was catching enough to keep me happy and felt that by leaving it where it was, it may prove a point. The whole week was \u2018wall to wall sunshine\u2019 and amazingly for the time of year, I never saw a cloud all week. The theory about high pressure and shallow water feeding, certainly seemed to have been proved correct during this week. It could have been expected that the carp would feed in the deeper water during the cool clear nights, but maybe the high pressure kept them in the shallower water!<\/span><\/p>\n <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Never saw a cloud all week!<\/span>\n<p>I ended up with 20 x 20lb + carp (with 6 x 30lb +) and a catfish of 26lb. All the fish being caught on the Quest Baits Rahja Spice shelf lifes (first time they had been used at the venue), and all between 8pm and 8am.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18120\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18120\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18120\" alt=\"carp fishing feature finding\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/12\/pic53.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/12\/pic53.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/12\/pic53-150x128.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/12\/pic53-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Two fleeces, the mornings were cold!<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18121\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18121\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18121\" alt=\"carp fishing feature finding\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/12\/pic66.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/12\/pic66.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/12\/pic66-150x128.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/12\/pic66-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The biggest of the week at 33lb+<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Coming back on the ferry, there were a lot of anglers moaning about the week they had (on a wide variety of venues) with most of them struggling for 2 or 3 fish each and blaming the weather conditions. So although my week was far from spectacular by French standards, I was more than happy with the results.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nPat Gillett<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me location is the most important factor that you need to get right whilst carp fishing. You can have the best baits and rigs in the world, but if you don’t place them in the correct place they will count for very little. 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