The carp in our area feed with the ducks. They're accustomed to bread, and they will swim up within minutes of it hitting the water. The carp, of course, don't know that this is bread.
What carp see are white objects floating on the water. It turns out that the white portion of a bobber looks very similar, at least to a fish. My son and I brought the bobbers to help the bread stay afloat. The hope was to float the hooked bread amongst the other bread we had tossed on top of the water ... which the carp had been sucking down with great enthusiasm.
We rigged our poles without a weight. The line had only a bobber and a hook with some bread on it. Within minutes the water was churning with carp big and small. The bread drew interest, but the bobber itself looked like a pinball. It was violently moving everywhere.
That's when we realized that the carp were striking the bobber itself. The absence of a weight had caused the bobber to float upside down, with the white portion in the water. Apparently, carp view the white side of a bobber as the biggest and best piece of bread ever!
I realize that you can't hook a carp with a bobber. However, using an inverted bobber greatly increases the number of fish in proximity to your hook and the actual bait on it. After all, to some degree, fishing is about the odds. This move may put the house (or at least the pond) in your favor!
(As usual, be careful not to harm the ducks. Since the bobber will float your bread / bait, you may want to wait until they leave the immediate area.)
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