Selectivos de carpfishing el vellon

Two weeks ago a mate of mine Raul mentioned a carp fishing competition on a lake north of Madrid called El Vellon / Embalse Pedrezuela. My first thought was mmh. Later when he told me the price I was like urrrm. Now I am in!

Today I spent the whole day suffering with a virus on my computer, mid work, mid magazine mid too much! It was the final straw – yet somehow through the stress and tension I took time to think, savour and visualise my doing well in said match.

It’s not normal for me to be so confidant, and if if from time to time I am, I never say I am, but this time I have, I was like “yeh”, I feel we can do good, our team can win!

This wasn’t because we know El Vellon well, far from it, we have actually only fished it once and we didn’t catch then!

So what was it that was making me so cock sure?

The answer was the humble maggot, my plan as discussed today with Chris from Enterprise Baits was to use the maggot, and in full force. Let’s face it, maggot is the best bait ever, and here in Spain for carp it’s seldom employed.

My idea was to fish tonnes of the wiggly ones, «gusanos«,as they are called here. Although it can be applied to any a wiggly thing!

Tomorrow I was off to my local fishing tackle shop to buy 3 litres of the maggot, with intnetion to «fill it in». A blanket of PVA’d or messed out maggot, a dream for any fish, and surely the best tactic for a winter run.

Hold it, snap out Andy, your machine has virus, your dealine is slipping and your dream of doing well on a bed of maggots has just been broken.

Why?

Because Raul just called to say «you cannot use cebos vivo’s», que? That’s right, «you cannot use live bait», and maggot in Spain is classed as live bait.

This news was the dagger in me, now with the session ahead, I can expect less action. My confidence bubble has gone, I am back to square one fishing the same as everyone else.

With maggot I was on it, sure, now with more typical boiled baits I feel my chances have lowered. Anyway the match kicks off at 8.30am on Sat. and ends’ 5pm on Sunday.

You can bet the snow thaw and our especially shallow pegs will hinder catches. Carp will be few and far between, but I hope to get one, I will go and work those baits like they have life like the maggot, in-order to get that bite..

For more on the law and this competition click here