Warm + Rainy = Good Fishing

This chunky common in the net is one of many
carp landed in the lousy weather yesterday.

I had the right conditions to carp fish yesterday, and it paid off.  It was rainy with torrential downpours at times.  It was also warm, in the sixties.  The night before was also warm, boosting the water temperatures.  It all added up to perfect fishing conditions.
I've written countless times about how carp go on the rampage and on feeding sprees in the daytime in very lousy weather. They are not their usual cautious selves.  And, the more lousy the weather, the better the fishing! At this time of year, it is the warm rain driven by winds from the south that light up the fishing.
I've been in a bit of a slump lately with the numbers down and the sizes down.  However, it took one miserable day to get my carp  fishing back on track.  I landed good numbers of fish yesterday up into the high teens. My bait of choice was a combo bait of maize and a pale pink pop-up artificial corn fished on the hair rig along with  a method ball packed around the sinker.  I've ditched the sweet corn until  the fall because the pests ( turtles, horned pout, bluegills and suckers) have also come to life and they constantly take off the delicate sweet corn. They will still hit the more durable maize but they can't take it off the hair without a lot of effort.