How To Catch BIGGER Carp (simple, honest advice)

Stop catching little carp and begin landing big ones, with these simple tips!
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[@fishingtutorials]

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[@davedeefishing]

I've learned a lot over the past year from you and I caught my pb common that was 20.75lbs last week. It took me a year to find a spot and it required me to use my kayak to find them and to fish from. Sort of a pain using carp rig in a swaying kayak (even though I staked it down). The long spans of time staying still in the yak was worth it. Thanks for your video that got me to this point. I addicted to carp!

[@Kismet4]

Thanks for sharing this. I only started fishing for carp about years ago. In that time, my understanding of carp behaviour as been very little. Thankyou for you're insight into the world of bigger carps behaviour and tips on how to catch them.

[@SkelligFishing]

It’s always amazing when you post a new video, and this was a great one, always love catching carp. 👏🔥🤩

[@trevorcornes1056]

Nice one Carl ,lots of very useful information just like normal. Keep it up and keep the fishing going too 👍

[@josephquinn7356]

Great educational video Carl. This is my first Winter, fishing for carp and you’ve taught me a lot! And always happy to see you over here in the States! - Joe

[@HitTheBricks89]

As always good stuff Karl , I loved the latest American film and really noticed how your craft has progressed with the cinematography and the little differences in style and production from when Alex was with you. As you just said perseverance is key and it's great to see the channel evolving. Happy for you mate. Looking back when my Carp fishing and all fishing actually really levelled up was when I started studying my watercraft. Understanding the venue, depth, what the beds made up from, types of weed and how they grow. What natural food is available at different times of year , weather, air pressure , current or flow of the water . It goes on and on but quite a lot of folk I see seem to treat one venue the same as any other. Not only did my fishing improve but as I got more into understanding the natural world in general so an appreciation and love for it I didn't have before emerged. For example I was fishing a big pond down in the west country about fifteen years back and I blanked the first four sessions . Frustrated but engaged I hit up google and researched the history of the venue and learnt that there had been a small brewery adjacent to the back of the lake that had closed around five years previous. Looking at some old plans I made out that there would have been an overflow and run off from the wastage system that will have ended up in soaking into the earth and likely filter through into the lake bed. I learnt the brewery made ale exclusively and diving deeper I found a couple of old recipes for what they produced. Next session I went and brought a big bag of hops and another of barley , which I soaked and mixed into a big bucket of ground bait. It was like I was at a completely different venue. I had eleven fish, 5 doubles and my first Carp over 20lb. I was like a dog with two dicks and it was a real awakening as to what I needed to be doing if I wanted to have more sessions the same. that will be my comment for the year then 🤐 Thanks Karl, be lucky.

[@jjeantette91]

Hey guys! I'm coming to your neighborhood next week! Starting carp fishing this year and I've caught 3 already and I'm in love! Maybe I'll catch yall on the river when I fish. Love yall and keep it up!

[@lamje_teh_deslycti3967]

Hey man i just wanted to say that you are awsome. Currenty i'm working for a tackle shop. I get alot of people wanting to fish for about everything. They have a hard time with gathering knowledge. Well i always guide them to your youtube pages and i have seen them comeback saying that they love the channels. Keep it up man! You are a great help

[@fishingtutorials]

Thank you so much :) Means a lot that you share the page with people. I'm really happy it can help more people, and that you feel confident enough about the content to recommend it. All the best mate!

[@samdub]

Thanks for the tips Carl!

[@cornusduplooy6193]

I really love your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@fishingtutorials]

You're welcome :) Happy you like them!

[@thunder_carp_fishing8084]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and tricks!

[@fishingtutorials]

No worries!

[@Joe-qc4kb]

Love the vids mate. I’ve just started fishing the weirwood resivour il be sure to watch more they’re highly educational for me

[@fishingtutorials]

Glad to hear it Joe :)

[@harryevans6978]

Hi just watched this just starting my first fishing in eight months due to I'll health. Going to my local club water. Some excellent fish in there mu biggest is 14lbs. I'll use some of the tips given in this and other videos and let you know lol. I will spend time over there just watching. As all my grandsons will be coming down over the summer. Keep up these excellent videos please. Cheers guys 👍

[@MartynsAnglingAdventures]

Nice one Carl! 👍🏻

[@neilingle1168]

Amazing stuff as always Carl! Simple advice without all the nonsense you see on other videos

[@fishingtutorials]

Thanks Neil, appreciate it :)

[@Switchplayer321]

What line strength do you recommend for 15-30 pound carp

[@Switchplayer321]

Didn’t mean to reply on this comment 😂

[@Dubs13]

Thank u for ur vids helps me out a lot

[@fishingtutorials]

Glad to hear that :)

[@gaba_ribic]

Thank you so much yesterday i got in some deeper part of big lake end in one am carp breakd my pb it was 14 kg before spawnd leather femle

[@davidbamber6795]

Good advice as usual and thank you

[@fishingtutorials]

Cheers David, you're welcome :)

[@danishrizwan3532]

Hay bro very good and informative video and very well explained thnxs. One request can you make a video on how to cast long in braided and monofilament fishing line.

[@brockfordjunktion]

Look for big fish in waters with big fish seems such a no brainer when said out loud, but sometimes the obvious needs saying to make it obvious. It was good seeing cal out with you across the pond by the way. Maybe if we're lucky, this year Alex will be up for the trip too.

[@fishwithcub204]

Thanks for that carl I'm going fishing tomorrow so it help me👍

[@fishingtutorials]

No problem, hope you had a good session!! 👍

[@fishwithcub204]

Thanks I've now caught my biggest carp two foot I tried to weigh him but weigher broke

[@fishingtutorials]

Mega result!! Well done mate :)

[@mtwmtwmtw23]

I love this channel keep it up!!! ❤💞

[@fishingtutorials]

❤ Cheers!!

[@carpfishingsimulatorguy]

Love these vids

[@synixeu4880]

Always come to this channel for advice

[@imanishay]

Hi im after some advice im fishing a lake where you can only fish hookbaits no groundbaits, pva bags etc literally just your hookbait. I usually use pva bags personally i use them because i feel more confident my rig wont be tangles on cast so my question is what do i need to do to rig wise or anything else to know im not going to be tangled on cast thank you.

[@worldwiderevolutionsoon5979]

Using tubing

[@willjones-oy9ro]

At my local Reservoir, there are a few Grass Carp. I’m yet to catch one. Any advice on how to target them? I’ve tried to look online for advice, some say early morning as the sun rises. Others say float bread or a triple sweetcorn pop up. Could you add any advice? Thank you.

[@user-ed3dz9zd1s]

Well you taught me something and I've been carp fishing for 20 years 😂 . The point on different parts of the lake where makes and females will frequent. Got me thinking 🤔

[@aleksandarkrunic9955]

Thanks,friend!

[@waynegarrett1614]

Hi Everyone, your videos have enspiered me to get back into carp fishing after more than 20 years, I am hoping to go with my 2 sons in July, can't wait. Do you have a video on how to safly remove a hook from a fishs mouth?...could you make one? Any tips, other that don't fall in the water?

[@artvandelay5760]

John Baker talks about baits for big carp in one of his podcasts. There's a study showing older fish have better taste receptors so they are more easily spooked when picking up (over) flavoured baits and don't need high levels of attraction.

[@FixDylann]

Im gonna buy some non flavoured popups

[@rozzzaboiii]

Doing My 1st 36 hour session next week hoping to break my pb so this advice will help

[@fingersTitan]

Good luck. I hope you smash it.

[@rozzzaboiii]

@Fingers Titan thanks man

[@fishingtutorials]

Nice :) have fun!

[@rozzzaboiii]

@Fishing Tutorials cheers dude, really looking forward to it

[@marcm2663]

I would really like to see you on Balaton in Hungary

[@fortifylamare22]

This is all everyone needs to learnt 🤟💯

[@borninvincible8898]

Hi Lads :) I was wondering if anyone can advise… after spending a few hours on internet it’s seems that every lake, river swamp belongs to someone with a million rules … is there any free river or lake where I could take my family with me and fish , have a sensible picnic ( using barbed hooks and unhooking mat ofc ) with just a fishing license? Many thanks in advance.

[@liamwebb9638]

Thank you 🙏 brother Carl

[@fishingtutorials]

You're welcome mate

[@michaelsutherland3012]

hi carl im a carp fisher and i really find it hard because my boilies dont work any idea why?

[@wink1eafc774]

I fish a lake complex in Essex, it as 4 lakes on the site, mainly fish the one where it has up to 20lb carp, but it's a match lake with 100 pegs where it's stocked a lot with F1s, so I know the average I get are around 5-8lb but the biggest I've had out of that one is 14lb common, I fished it yesterday and I landed 7 decent carp and 3 missed that broke up my line! I was gutted! They also have a specimen lake which I will fish this year with carp up to 30lb, So I am going down there with two of carp rods and bait alarms and see if I can beat get my personal best of 22lb

[@kevinscott9196]

Should try birds green in ongar. Good fishing on 3 lakes. Bottom lake has a decent amount of mid teens up to low 20s

[@wink1eafc774]

@@kevinscott9196 I fished that about 15 years ago or so, it’s lovely set of lakes. I fished puddle dock farm yesterday, I want to try Tyler’s at some point.

[@kevinscott9196]

Both fishing in the same sort of areas

[@ryanlotgd]

can vouch on the reel part hooked a catfish tonight just over 30ib my reel was almost not up to the job defo made for a fun fight for a first ever catfish

[@explorerc6707]

What a great video

[@fishingtutorials]

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[@mewansukchannel5593]

Bro there is big carp about 6-7kg may be more...in a pond near by .....so plz help regarding bait preparation so that I would catch one in my life......the pond is muddy...I want to experience such challenges....I'm dreaming to catch one...plz help....from India....

[@bazwhite9367]

Great video as always , very informative . Have followed you and Alex for years but only remembered the subscribe button today! . Would you ever consider doing a video close to home ? . I live in West Sussex and a member of a lake nearby which does indeed hold a stock of 20's. Despite being season 2 here , I am still yet to catch a 20lb Carp after 30 years of trying! . I have already come up with a title ' Teaching an old dog new tricks ! ' . All the best and keep the video's coming.

[@dulahdulah9591]

I"ve been using boilies and corn since 1st of january when i got my carp rod, and yesterday i switched to a pop up and got my first bite but it didn't connect :(

[@visseman]

I caught my pb carp in a small park pond. Only 25 m in length and 3 m/7 m in width. Even tough i thought i would catch small ones, i got a big mirror of 75 cm and 8/9.5 kilo's. My pb, from a small park pond. I've seen people fishing for carp on the bigger canals and rivers, mostly for 2 days in order to catxh 1 or 2 big carp. I caught mine pb carp in the second most smallest pond in the entire region, in only 13 minutes. You don't have to go to the big waters and spent days in order to catch big carp, the big carp are also in your local pond!

[@Ezsy1996]

Hi carl, for some reason your videos on this channel isn't coming up on my recommended or even on my notifications very strange from yt buut thanks for the advice on the video though!

[@fishingtutorials]

Oh that's weird! Glad you found it anyway :) You're welcome!

[@Welcome34-]

yo yo love vids

[@janv6531]

Can youy do guide for zander?

[@fishingtutorials]

I'll see what I can do :)

[@resultedwings1296]

Cool

[@joebidome425]

this brings back memories of me just float fishing on a lake with my dad and i chucked out a bit of normal yellow sweetcorn and put just a bit of red sweetcorn on the end of my line, i had a bite, set the hook aaaand snap... and i just see my float just slowly disappear down the other end of the lake, i looked over at my dad just completely gob smacked and we just had a proper laugh😂😂

[@fishingtutorials]

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[@axelk24]

good like it

[@eggbenedict-gt7mw]

Bro what about barramundi, snapper, grouper, and trevally,

[@fishingtutorials]

Those are some amazing sea fish species but unfortunately they don't swim in Uk waters. This is a tutorial for those who are fishing fresh water over here :) carp are more commonly caught freshwater fish in the UK. In regard to sea fishing here, most people target sea bass, mackerel, wrasse among many others. The species you mention are amazing, but a little more advanced and require going overseas. I'd love to fish for them one day though!

[@weeeeee374]

I've got a weird issue. Lake owner says there are carp to 28lbs. People I've spoken to have o ly caught up to 14lbs But I've had an 18lb Do I believe the lake owner or not?

[@HitTheBricks89]

Chop the difference and say there's a probability of fish to 21lb . He's probably right though , not much value in him telling tall stories when your already a customer and even in a small lake the bigger , older fish can go years sometimes without being caught.

[@fishingtutorials]

Yes second that, wiser larger fish sometimes don't get caught very often.

[@weeeeee374]

@pavementbastard567 good idea. I'll aim for a 20! Then anything more than that is a bonus! Bragging rights 😆

[@weeeeee374]

@fishingtutorials I'll have to see what I can do this summer! Try find out it 🤭 easy to say

[@fishingtutorials]

Definitely haha, you never know!

[@southcoastangler]

Let that advice sink in!

[@Henryyyy-ch4ju]

Carl I recon I could catch a tench now

[@robbieadam200]

When I went to a spot with my dad and 4th cast i got a pike.

[@fishingtutorials]

Well done mate!

[@fishwithcub204]

Never court one before what is it like?

[@fishingtutorials]

Super exciting!

[@Panda27289]

So if i go to the oposite side of the lake and bang on the floor i can push them over to my peg? Top tip 😂

[@bistroteamfishing]

👍👍👍

[@AllAboutCarp]

Watching this while fishing right now 😂 hope I catch a 20lb carp.

[@jameswelch8275]

Good luck brother tight lines

[@AllAboutCarp]

@@jameswelch8275 gonna need it. Have blanked all day so far since 7 AM

[@lukasdimic9242]

Hi

[@ragnorremix8426]

Prebait the no1 key to catching the bigguns

[@arturleperoke3205]

Thank you Alex, but I am still at base 1: Catch something😅

[@Spooonk1379]

I live in australia so if you catch a carp (because they are invasive) you by law have to kill them and when I see carl catch a crap and release it I get so triggered😂 2:53

[@cuttingjalalbd75]

Good video friends ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂❤ Love you

[@fishingtutorials]

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[@fr0sty_nugz]

Going down the bank later hoping for a 20

[@fishingtutorials]

Good luck out there :)

[@fr0sty_nugz]

@@fishingtutorials thank you trying a lake I don't really fish much but there's 40s in there you never know what the sesh can hold

[@kieranviner9496]

Best of luck mate

[@fr0sty_nugz]

@@kieranviner9496 cheers mate rods have been out for a few hours not anything yet tho

[@kieranviner9496]

@@fr0sty_nugz Throw us a comment when ye get one laaa! 😁

[@peterfielding4527]

good to see Americans enjoy catching carp esp with this "kill the carp campaign" spreading across america, thank you for this episode i needed these tips lol

[@flecx9767]

To be honest, the kill the carp campaign has it's reasons. Would be wise in Europe if we also would be a bit more aggressiv against invasive spiecies

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Haa America being concerned about invasive species 😂

[@peterfielding4527]

@@samuelgarrod8327 i know ay? since they put them there too, long ago

[@visseman]

​@@flecx9767 in europe and USA, the carp aren't considered invasive, more like naturalized exotic species. The diffrence is that invasive species cause mass loss of biodiversitation, and naturalized exotic animals often don't have a major effect on the biodiversity, like the carp in the USA. The only invasive carp species in the USA, is the asian carp.

[@flecx9767]

@@visseman the common carp is one of the most invasive spiecies in the world, it just has established itself in the US since it's been there for over 200 years. A bit over 200 years more and i would be considert a native spiecies in that sense. But the common carp is one of the most destructive spiecies in the world

[@zubemotungoe7683]

👍👏👏👏

[@k-a-p-a-l-o-s-u-k-u]

8:08 salam dari Indonesia 🙏❤❤❤

[@fishingtutorials]

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[@jakovradecic1313]

Carl, did you ever wash your jacket?

[@fishingtutorials]

Hahah, I do just not very often!

[@harryevans6978]

Had a lovely Prussian carp about 4 lbs yesterday not as big as your catches but my first day out in 8mths. I need some advice please, I have an illness that attacks all my joints it's called PMR, makes it very difficult to do much sometimes especially with my hands and tying knots for hooks. I used to use the perfect knot but find it very difficult now. I lost a good carp yesterday because my knot wasn't secure. Any ideas how I can tie/change my knots to make them secure please. Any help would be great thank you. Regards Harry

[@crstarkey]

To catch big fish consistently, it takes time on the bank and perseverance. True in fishing and in business.

[@spicycow.]

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[@yvonneallen1312]

First

[@willygg2625]

Wicked vid! Just order the beanie🙌🏻🔥 idc summer is coming 😂

[@fishingtutorials]

Haha thanks mate :) It's surface fishing time now! haha

[@BigRdawgg]

I caught my PB on a chod rig, find they produce bigger fish for me 👌

[@bshxbx]

At first I was like aw man he’s in the UK🥲 then he said America I was like YESSSS. Idk how different carp fishing is in the UK but I figured it’s a bit different.

[@bossroyal1841]

Hi