If the ability to experiment, and- in business parlance- "think outside the box" is an essential quality for carp fishing excellence, then my 10 year old nephew is well on the way to being an excellent carp angler.
On a recent session, with three or four carp already banked, he decided to abandon his standard "fake corn" and method rig, and to hair rig one of the wine gums he'd been rotting his teeth with all morning. The result, was this pretty mirror.
Of course, novel baits are nothing new in the world of carp angling. Some of us (like me and his Dad) are old enough o remember getting our own bait ingredients from the catalogues of Rod Hutchinson and Duncan Kay and rolling homemade boilies, and now that it's almost de rigeur in the summer to catch carp on bits of coloured foam or zig bugs, then nothing should surprise us really, but "fair play" to the kid for his experimental approach.
Anyway, I'm off to the shops to buy some Fruit pastilles and mini marshmallows .... I'm thinking that the marshmallow fished "snowman" style with the fruit pastille might create a nicely critically balanced effect. I would try "M&M's" but nuts are banned on my lake ...... it's all "food for thought."
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