Moving Forward Looking Back

With four Weeks off fishing thanks to shattered bones in his hand Jules has had plenty of time to reflect.

- Julian Cundiff

I’m not one for health and wealth resolutions, but every New Year I have a hard look at the previous 12 months. It’s an honesty exercise: what did and didn’t work, what needs to be changed, and how I might improve things?

Big and round – Ground bait and my trademark mush proved great for one-off trips to action waters and perfect for the very cold late winter sorties, but without a doubt sticking to boilies only made a big difference when I twigged it early summer. Nuisance fish issues fell away, the average size of my carp increased, and in all honesty feeding boilies is a lot easier than mixing mush. Initially I used the Key in 15mm and dumbbells, but by late summer I had moved on to 20mm boilies only. It was definitely a big-fish-friendly tactic and fishing a slightly smaller hook bait kept tripping the carp up.