What bait do you recomend for carp fishing on the canal?
Thats the answer to your Crayfish problem use bigger hooks for your Carp fishing. Firstly are you ledgering your Luncheon Meat , if you are good . Now what you need to do is whats called poping up , bait up with a piece of Lm about half the size you would normally and make up the size of the bait with some foam or Bread crust so your bait now pops up off the bottom. with a hook lenght 8 -10 inches 20 – 25 cm it allows your bait to move a bit drawing it to the attention of any fish and keeping it away from a lot of those buggers ( as you call them ) Fish it on the edge of weed beds next to reeds under trees .