How fishing for other species can help your carp angling
It’s helped shape Jimmy’s style of angling
Believe it or not, fishing for other species has helped me massively in my pursuit for big carp. I grew up fishing for everything that swims. I soon learnt the appreciation of adapting to different feeding sets and the skills of stealth when hunting your quarry. I learnt the difference between lazy angling and good angling. I took this into my carp fishing.
On a day’s river fishing I’ll quite often move swims four, five or even six times in a day. It might be on that sixth swim that I stumble across an angry shoal of perch that I’d been trying to locate all day. I make the most of a day on the river. I’ll get up at first light and start fishing as early as possible, leaving it right up until dark. It really helps you improve as angler because it gets you into the good habits of being on your game at all times.
In carp fishing, it’s very easy to make excuses and bore them out, but if you’re into good habits, and used to moving all the time, you know that you can create chances by keeping on the move. I think you’ll also be amazed at how much you cut down the amount of gear you take angling if you’ve flirted with other types of coarse angling. There’s just no need to take mountains. To fish most effectively, you need to keep on the move, so cut that gear down and get on ‘em!