Clear canalised fishery!

[AndyT]

Right fellas, Ineed help!

As some of you know, a new fishery has opened near to me, Aldecar Lane Fishery. Its a cracking venue with 3 different lakes at the moment, and another planned in the near future. When it opened in September it was a fish a chuck, all little mirror and common carp around the 8oz mark, with the odd lump. The far shelf is 18" deep and protrudes 1 meter from thefar bank, with the track being around 4 ft deep.
The problem is once the1st frosts arrived, the water is gin clear!, and buying a biteis very very difficult. If there is a fish in your swim it'll still eat pellets, corn maggot or whatever you have on the hook, but getting a fish there and then keeping a few interested isdoing my head in.

I'veplayed around fishing shallow cattying the odd maggot, which worked to an extent, I've clouded the water with Atomic Cloud and Swimstim which also caught me the odd fish, but nothing has yet worked properly!

Have any of you seasoned commercial canal anglers got any suggestions?

Much obliged

Andy

[Chum Mixer]

Hi Andy, from what you have put I would have personally gone down the road of introducing a cloud / like atomic cloud to give them something to feel confident in, i'd of thought that feeding atomic cloud on a little and often basis would have done the trick.

Alternatively have you tried bread punch and liccy ?

[Hillbilly]

The problem you have is that mirrors and commons are simply much less active when the thermometer drops. If the place had a good stock of F1's things would be much easier. However I would simply fish a main line where it is around three feet deep on the slope up to the far shelf. Here I would feed three or four maggots with a pot every ten minutes and fish over it with a lightly shotted rig to 0.1 line straight through and a 22's hook (808). Fish single maggot at around an inch overdepth and keep a tight line to the float after you lay the rig in. Every thirty/fourty seconds lift the bai to mid water and let it settle again. After doing this four times lift rig out and lay it in again then repeat the sequence. Every four or five lay ins pot in another three or four maggots. If the sun is on the water try further up the shelf later on as it will warm the water. You could have a second line at mid track in a position where it is easy to throw four or five maggots every few minutes as a back up. If none of this works ......



















chuck the tip out and go for a pie and chips or **** off home.:)

[Happydangler]

I read Hillbillys reply hoping for a hint of his favourite winter additive........

[bwfc01]

Andy

Have you tried a small waggler????

If the water is clear then maybe they can see your pole and are then going into hiding as they wont be confident to feed.

[amo]

Andy: Sounds very much like the Capricous Canal type lake at Blake Hall.

One good solution for you...

find another venue in the winter!

LOL LOL

Or like Neil says chuck the tip out & go the cafe for something to eat!

Seriously though the Capricious fished OK in the last WL much to everyone suprise, I bet you aren't doing anything wrong fish just aren't feeding.

Cheers

Amo
;)