Approaching small deep waters.

[InteraX]

Hi all,

I've got a local water I want to target. It's the nearest water to home with decent fish in it, but it's very deep from what I read.

On the surface, it's about 200m by 130, but it's apparently up to 100ft deep. It's an old brick works and there's apparently some old buildings and machinery at the bottom, so it I want to try to avoid the deepest parts. I can only access about 1/2 of the bank as there's housing around the other side and we aren't allowed to cast near the gardens.

How would you target this type of water?

Thanks for your advice.

[framey]

Find em 

feed em 

ff 

wrong forum sorry

 

but most of it still counts..

🤣🤣

 

[jules007]

My 1st thought would be to use floater dog biscuits and avoid the deep snaggy lake 

[salokcinnodrog]

15 hours ago, InteraX said:

Hi all,

I've got a local water I want to target. It's the nearest water to home with decent fish in it, but it's very deep from what I read.

On the surface, it's about 200m by 130, but it's apparently up to 100ft deep. It's an old brick works and there's apparently some old buildings and machinery at the bottom, so it I want to try to avoid the deepest parts. I can only access about 1/2 of the bank as there's housing around the other side and we aren't allowed to cast near the gardens.

How would you target this type of water?

Thanks for your advice.

Sounds interesting!

As with all waters, look for the fish. Despite the depths, most waters still have margins, a shelf or ledge and then either a gradual slope or a sudden drop off.

I can't imagine that there is much natural food at depths beyond say 40feet either. That's not to say none, but I would think most is above that.

I seem to recall a thread around 5years ago asking how deep carp go, and I think that 50feet was the limit that carp were caught from (Bundy's?).

Funnily enough I was reading Rod Hutchinson Carp Now and Then again this week, and his thoughts were that Cassien carp preferred to feed in depths to around 20feet, but would go down to 60feet.

This is where your friendly echo sounder and bait boat may be handy?

(Did I really just say that?🫣)

 

Casting near the gardens is relative, how do you define what is near?

Do the residents always sit out with a measuring stick and a yellow or red card?😆🤪

A small splash may or may not be noticed, and once the line is in the water who is to say where it was cast.