We all know that carp love Sweetcorn. Any kind of sweetcorn usually works and works well. I’ve searched for years to find the perfect  Sweetcorn that will stay on my hook direcrtly, or on my hair rig out for a number of hours at a time, look like regular canned sweetcorn and smell/taste amazing. Last year I found the solution.

Royal carp sell some cooked sweetcorn that, for some reason, every carp in every lake I have fished go crazy for. It’s so good in fact that every fish I have caught so far in 2010 has been taken on this bait, on 3 different lakes.

They sell it it for $3 a tub, I still have half left from when I bought it 8 months ago, its just that good!

My rig and method for catching is incredibly simple. I make a very basic mono hair rig using a size 8 korda curved shank x upto a size 8 swivel,  on my mainline I thread a tiny (quarter ounce) lead, then small green bead. Tie the hair rig hook length to the swivel (preferably a Palomar knot) and your fishing. The best thing is the royalcarp sweetcorn looks just like your canned stuff but tastes and smells better and will stay on your hook or hair for a week if you wanted it too, even after playing fish, it just doesn’t ever come off!

2 grains of Royal carp sweet corn on the hair cast onto a scattered bed of regular canned sweetcorn and you will be catching in no time. My best results come from baiting the moment I arrive with 2 or 3 catapults worth, then topping up throughout the day every 30 minutes to an hour.

This rig and bait setup works so well because you can continually cast and bait up without making hardly any disturbance to the water and lake bed. If you build up your swim over a weekend you will get a lot of action, regardless of weather and water conditions.

I use a really, really cheap 10ft ultralight rod and small diawa spinning reel. after casting, tighten down to the lead and place the rod on a rest directly in front of you. Bites will be indicated by the line tightening very quickly, the tip curving around, or – the fish screaming off with your rod into the water(!) do not leave this setup unattended or you will loose your gear. (you could always use a baitrunner reel but I prefer striking the moment the line tightens, real instant action carping!)

This has been my “go-to” setup for 2 years now and has landed me hundreds of American carp on various lakes and ponds while my bottom bait rods have sat there and done nothing but blank for weeks on end.

Give this a try, its easy and cheap but cracking good fun. I was able to fish “match style” for carp in the late summer months last year landing 7 common carp back to back within 2 hours ranging from 4 to 8lbs.

I declare Royalcarp prepared sweetcorn the best bait of 2009, and even better so far in 2010!