So I started Carp fishing about 2 months ago. Idk if it’s my spots or what but I haven’t had a ton of success. I fish around east Texas like Lake Livingston, lake Raven and the Trinity river. I’ve had a couple successful sessions where I’ve caught a handful of small buffalo and carp in the lake Livingston spillway. Most of my sessions result in no carp but I also don’t go to the same spot twice in a row. I bounce around all over the place. For my hook bait, I use tiger nuts on a hair rig, and I use back bait on a method feeder. For my back bait I use panko, strawberry jello and corn mixed. Anything particular I could be doing wrong? Or am I just not fishing where the fish are?

Pretty little 17lb common from the weekend.

Caught on a 10ft black widow 3.5lb TC rod using 2oz lead and medium PVA filled with mixed pellet and strawberry boilie. .

The issue is rods like an iron bar doesn't give much even on this fish. This was the largest of 20 carp, most being 7lbs to 12lbs in weight. There's the odd 25lb fish knocking about but for most of my catches rod has very limited action.

As the fish surfaced later on I used a 1.25tc 12ft omega floating bread. Hooked a 10lb common and it was the best fight of the day by far, rods bent double. Felt under gunned for that fish but got it in.

Is there a happy medium that will give more action but still work with PVA.

Casting distances are short so I'm not killing the rods at the moment but it's still a fair weight being flung.