Float fishing for Carp with my Daughter, well we eventually did when it was suitable for the spawning fish to finish their dance.
So, May has disappeared in a flash flood and June is now in full bloom and it’s been heating up. Spawning was in the fore front of our minds but we were patient and waited, checked in with our local club and the spawning was over.
Right to it then, let’s get out on our local 2 acre pool, it’s a feature packed pool with a massive reed bed that can be reached from a decent amount of pegs, 6 lily pads close to the bank, a tree lined island and the depth varies from approximately 3ft (1m) up to 6ft (2m).
The daughter was really happy with targeting ever so slightly bigger fish, our previous trips had been using maggots and getting small tiddlers, Gudgeon etc. So when she said she was happy to forget the maggots and try float fishing with sweetcorn, I thought we could get some decent fish.
She set up her Shakespeare Omni X 10ft match rod with 6lb Daiwa sensor on a small match Abu Garcia reel and a decent waggler as the ripples on the water were fairly substantial as it always is on this pool.
She chose to fish about a foot away from the lilies and plumbed the depth and it came in at around just over 5 feet. she got straight to getting the sweetcorn on the hook and casting out, which wasn’t easy with the wind in our faces most of the time. When the wind did drop for a matter of minutes it felt like a nice summer’s day and then it picked up again it was like an rough Autumn’s day
The excitement when that float goes under really gets you to hit the strike a bit too hard, I will be helping her to lift the rod into a strike. The video below shows her getting into it.
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