carp fishing?

[backyard bucks]

they are a blast when you snag into the side of one on my smallmouth gear..
i always keep a pole set up with a big teble hook during our tournies and when i see a good chance to snag into one for the fight i'm all over it...

[tlbradford]

They are a lot of fun on a #4-#6 fly rod too.

[Skyvalhunter]

Have you found out that carp actually stink? Well atleast the ones I was able to catch or snag and get in.

[MtnMuley]

I guess I never got as close to them as you sky.

[Skyvalhunter]

  yea no wonder they tell me I stink!!

[carpsniperg2]

Carp stink Say it isn't so

[shedcrazy]

Its always fun when your fishing for crappie, and hook one of those ugly monsters! They do put up a great fight.

[Skyvalhunter]

Before 9/11 I was fishing below Grand Coulee dam and hooked some monster that I could hardly budge. Probably a big carp as I was fishing with worms but I like to tell myself it was the state record rainbow that got away.

[MtnMuley]

Before 9/11 I was fishing below Grand Coulee dam and hooked some monster that I could hardly budge. Probably a big carp as I was fishing with worms but I like to tell myself it was the state record rainbow that got away.

Nope.  It was the state record "triploid".  This is know, because the state record triploid that was caught after that a few miles away had some of your 40# braid hanging out its a*s that it couldn't digest.......  

[Cylvertip]

In-fisherman Magazine had an article or two on sight fishing for carp.  Really good read.  They were calling them the bonefish of the North - they said they acted more like bonefish than bonefish did.  The guy they went fishing with made his own jigs that looked like a leach or crawfish without pinchers.  They would sitecast to the fish, putting the lure in their path.  When the fish would be right on top of the lure, he would scoot it or pop it of the bottom - instinct would take over and FISH ON!  He was even using a push pole just like Florida flats fishermen to move his boat around.  I'll see if I can tack it down.

[Skyvalhunter]

They can definately fight!! Its cool to watch them working the grass in Banks looking for food.

[birdaddict]

I have bow fished for them. Thats a lot of fun but I didn.t know that you could catch them with lite gear. How is it done? That one kind of fish that could use some over fishing.

[carpsniperg2]

I am surprised that the master of carp, with rod and reel has not said anything on this thread. The washington state record holder with a fish of 41.4lbs, caught in 1980 and still standing today. Belongs to a member that most on here know

[Machias]

I am surprised that the master of carp, with rod and reel has not said anything on this thread. The washington state record holder with a fish of 41.4lbs, caught in 1980 and still standing today. Belongs to a member that most on here know

Who is it?

[carpsniperg2]

Iceman