Hi, I'm new here

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(05-01-2013 12:09 PM)angler1 Wrote:  Over the weekend, I tried carp fishing, for the first time, at Mount Joy. I fished on the south side for 45 min but didn't catch anything. I used bouyant, artificial corn on an inline bolt rig with a hair rig. I didn't chum the area, maybe that was a mistake.

It's not just about chumming.

If the carp are not in the area, it doesn't matter how much you chum...they're not there to find your chum.

Even in a small pond, fish are not always covering the entire pond. Sometimes they can congregate in one area for quite sometime, then something trigger them to move to another areas and use that area for sometime. Then there are occasions where they would have specific feeding areas. They would move from area to area quickly, often not stopping to feed in between. I've had carp pass over a whole bed of corn while they are moving from one defined feeding area to another.

The important thing is to identify these feeding areas and then put your fishing effort in these specific spots.

In rivers, it is a bit different as the current will disperse scent from your bed of chum. In smaller lake and pond where even wind driven current is limited, it is a different matter.

Now...if you have the dedication to chum the same area every other day...you can establish a feeding area where fish will come back over and over again.