Fishing bait guide | Fishing for carp with corn
With carp queuing up down the margins, Phil Reynolds was determined to make the most of the final hour of his session.
Piling in the bait throughout the day had led to his tray being almost empty, but a few scraps could still be found in the bottom of his corn tub.
Tails that looked bigger than anything he had landed suddenly began to show in the shallow water and, in a desperate bid to catch the owner of one, he latched on several scraps of the supermarket offering that remained.
In went the rig, and moments later the float rocketed under, the elastic shot out and it was game on. Minutes later a giant 15lb mirror was nestled in the bottom of the net.
“That day at Willow Marsh Fishery a couple of years ago put me on to a tactic that has caught me so many big fish since, and I have to confess
I stumbled on it by accident,” explained Phil.
“I used the skins of a few grains of corn that I could find and I did it again several times that session and banked numerous other double- figure lumps in a short period.
“Since then I have used corn skins as a hookbait almost every time I have been to a commercial and there is no doubt it has helped me pick out bigger fish.”
HOW TO HOOK CORN SKINS
1) Take a grain of sweetcorn and squeeze out all the pulp from the middle
2) Once the pulp has been discarded, hook the remaining skin
3) Place five or six skins on the hook to create an easily visible bait with minimal food content