In March and April the carp spend large chunks of the day lazilly sunning themselves, and the fish doing this are very hard to catch
Sinkers Buy a variety pack of split-shot sinkers (for live-bait fishing with bobbers and to add casting heft to jigs and spinners as needed), an assortment of bullet weights (to use with plastic worms) and a sampling of wire-eyed bass or bait-casting sinkers
There are often pockets, such as a little opening in the branches of a sunken tree, that are at first hard to fish from the bank, but a lot of the time, you can cast into these areas with a straight cast, then, midair, just before the fly lands, give the line a quick mend so the fly lands in the opening, but the line lands clear of any snags, so you can fish the fly around the corner and show the fly to every other fishy-looking area on the way back to you
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