Carp Fishing Tips

The following articles and pages contain a variety of carp fishing tips, tactics and techniques in order to help you catch and put more carp on the bank. If you have any carp fishing tips to contribute, please get in touch.

Combating Crayfish ~ Have you been subject to the Crayfish disappearing bait trick? They are a growing issue in UK waters ruining many anglers carp fishing. This guide will teach you how to stop the little blighters from pinching your hook baits and ruining your session…Read On »

Baiting Up – Over the Top? ~ Baiting up before a session has always been popular, but the evolution of methods and approach over the last couple of decades has led to a ridiculous increase in expenditure and quantities, have we gone too far? ….Read On »

How to Catch Carp

Carp Fishing has exploded in popularity over the last couple of decades, and as such a Carp Fishing Tips section has quite rightfully earned its place in in our article library.

There are several different species of Carp in our UK fisheries and rivers. They are an extremely versatile fish, and the methods of catching carp are just as diverse, requiring different approaches depending on time of day, environmental and specie related factors. The techniques to catch carp in stocked fisheries and how to catch carp in rivers can also vary, along with summer and winter carp fishing techniques and approaches. Ultimately there are numerous ways to fish for carp but most of the time a trial and error approach, along with growing your tactical knowledge and acquiring an understanding of your venue or swim will help yield the best results. Hopefully our carp fishing tips and tactics will get you well on your way to successfully learning how to catch more carp!

Carp angler Steve Lewington has built a further great free resource to improve your carp fishing knowledge covering rigs, bait, tactics and much more, follow the link below: