A Favourite Carp Fishing Session - And I Didn't Catch A Thing

I had one of my best ever carp fishing sessions the other week. And I didn't catch a thing!

It was a pretty cold day at my local carp fishery, but I had been catching carp regularly over the winter, so I was confident of banking at least a few.

There was nobody else about as I scouted the lake, searching for signs of carp. I decided to set up at the sheltered end of the lake as there was a fairly brisk wind blowing, and I'd seen a few signs of movement.

I set up a pretty standard pop-up rig with Active-8 pop-ups and attached a PVA stocking with a mixture of pellets, crushed boilies and groundbait. I wanted a tight lump of bait on the lake bed that might entice a carp to have a snack.

This was cast to the sheltered side of an island and another dropped close in to the bank where I knew there was a slightly deeper gully. I was pretty confident that I'd see some action.

A while later, a young lad came down to the lake. We got chatting and it turned out that he'd been fishing the lake for a few months and had not yet caught a carp. So I got him to rig up near me. Once he'd set everything up, I took a look at his rig. First thing I noticed was a huge bit of monofil sticking out of his hook knot, so we snipped it off. Then we sorted out the weight, which was more like a beach casting lead, taking it down to a 1oz flat weight.

Once we had his rig sorted out, I asked him where he was going to fish to. As is often the case, he wanted to lob it out as far as it would go into the middle of the lake. So I suggested that he walk 20 yards down the bank to an overhanging bush, drop in half a dozen boilies that had been cut in half, then manually drop his end tackle right on top.

Give him his dues, he did this without any complaint. About 20 minutes later, his bite alarm screamed and he hooked into a decent carp. After a short fight, with a little more instruction, I slipped the landing net under a beautiful mirror. It actually tipped the scales at a shade over 14 pounds. As the rest of the day wore on, he had another couple of carp, a5lb common and an 8lb mirror....

I caught absolutely nothing.

But I will always remember that session as one of my favourites. I'm sure that I have helped a young lad catch the carp bug. And the look on his face when he posed for his trophy shot was one of pure joy.

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