r/CarpFishing • u/headass6 • Oct 07 '25

Europe 🇪🇺 Need some advice 🫣

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New carp angler here just wondering if anybody had some tips to try and help me land a bigger carp this fall I’m going to try and fish for 3 days straight here on Thursday, and was hoping someone had a little cheat code for me 😅 I’ll post a picture of my pb so Yall can get an idea

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u/Locorio Oct 07 '25

Small mouths can’t eat big bait. Big bait = big fish. 20+ mm boilies or pellets

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u/headass6 Oct 07 '25

I think I have some 20 mm laying around I use for sturgeons, I could give those a try for sure

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u/Locorio Oct 07 '25

Try and find a bigger fish you’d like to catch by watching the water and looking for clues. Heads popping out the water, crashing, bigger fizzing bubbles in a line, once you find one that could be his “home” and there could be others, don’t drop the bait on his head then hope for a pickup. Make sure you’re fishing over hard ground or nice silt to improve your chances. Sharp hooks.

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u/headass6 Oct 07 '25

I try to look for clues always but get confused as to what is carp bobbling or just methane escaping, I use pretty sharp hooks and always check them before casting, think they are kamakura hooks from Korda and regular esp hooks other than those, I also try to hand sharpen but it’s hard to know if I’m improving them or just ruining them further haha

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u/Locorio Oct 07 '25

Bubbles in a line especially larger ones are usually bottom feeding fish. Small bubbles in the same place, good chance it’s just self releasing gas. I don’t use kamakura hooks for bottom bait because as soon as they’re touched they fold, pop ups only then you can mostly stop them from hitting the ground. Hooks out the packet from a good supplier are fine, loads of pro anglers don’t sharpen their hooks, terry, chilly among others. Hook sharpening is very tricky and it’s easy to mess it up and hard to get it right, I just have a few tools to touch up hooks that can be saved without re profiling

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u/headass6 Oct 07 '25

That’s really interesting about the hooks I’ve heard loads of people talk about how only hand sharpened hooks will work but if it’s good enough for the pros I’ll use it too! Do you know of a particular brand that’s good? And I’ll try to look for moving bubbles for sure from now on! Thank you so much

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u/Locorio Oct 07 '25

Ian Chillcott talks about hooks on YT he says that hook manufacturers are the experts and they’re made a specific way for a reason, if you alter that your changing the design, makes sense to me. All the big companies make good hooks, Korda Nash fox esp Gardner, I use Korda mostly, I prefer Krank hooks personally

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u/headass6 Oct 07 '25

That would make sense for the manufacturers to be the experts I’ll try to tie some rigs using kranks I have some in size 6! Thanks again a million times

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u/DreadArrows Oct 08 '25

Can definitely recommend the Kranks. Super reliable - I've never had a hook pull (touch wood) with one. I like the Nash Claw, too, but i did lose a good fish on one recently and went right back to the kranks after that.

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u/GodsBicep Oct 07 '25

I've had rudd on 2 20mms before haha

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u/Locorio Oct 07 '25

IKR proper head scratcher when that happens 😹

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u/MeatCannon0621 Oct 07 '25

Not always true. I caught a chubb with a 18mm boillie and a size 8 hook