Any carp fisherman here?

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My new place is just a few minutes walk from a large resivore. Its full of large mouth, crappie, cats and carp.

I know carp get a bad rap but just the fact that they weigh in over 20 LBS on the regular and fight like Mike tyson makes me want to start fishing for them.

So i spent a few hours today going for them on one rod and pan fish on the other.

I didn't ketch anything but a buzz....

Im using sweet corn on a #6 and a sliding sinker stopped by a swivel. The line is slack.

This area is only accessible from private property so its not fished hardly at all. In fact the dang things are jumping out of the water left and right along with some pig large mouths...

Anyone cate to share their carp catching tricks?

I want one of these in my hands bad...

Thanks for your time and advice!
 
Anyone cate to share their carp catching tricks?

Well, they are bottom feeders for the most part. Run a heavy line like 20lb test braided, medium rod. Rig up with a swivel at the end of the braided line then run a 2 foot or so mono leader. Run a third short line from where the swivel attaches to the braided line and put a bottom sinker on that. That will get the line to the bottom and the bait will float a bit off the bottom.

Cast and wait. If'n you get a hit, hang on they are scrappy little buggers.
 
My 8 year old grandson thinks he's super fisherman when he brings a 6 or 7 pound carpe in. He's just a little guy but all muscle so it's a hoot when he gets one.
 
Abu bait caster on the right, 20 Lb braid with 2' leader and my bass rig on the left with 8 lb mono, a balsa torpedo bobber and salmon eggs on the left..

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Skunked..
 
Do you cook em?

Im also looking for catfish/ pan fish recipes!

Thanks!
 
Dough balls and a heavy sinker. I have seen them caught on just about anything tho. Idk about the west coast but around here they usally like shallow still water you find them alot in ponds and at the edges of the lake. They are protected here you cant keep them you have to release them I have seen them as big as 30 lbs I think the state record Is 50 or something like that.
 
Dough balls and a heavy sinker. I have seen them caught on just about anything tho. Idk about the west coast but around here they usally like shallow still water you find them alot in ponds and at the edges of the lake. They are protected here you cant keep them you have to release them I have seen them as big as 30 lbs I think the state record Is 50 or something like that.

Check out the pic i posted. I swear. I think the fishing is gonne be great!

Its basically my private lake. I haven't seen anyone else fishing it and there is almost no access to the public.

I haven't been so excited about fishing since i got my first blue gill at 5 years old.
 
Check out the pic i posted. I swear. I think the fishing is gonne be great!

Its basically my private lake. I haven't seen anyone else fishing it and there is almost no access to the public.

I haven't been so excited about fishing since i got my first blue gill at 5 years old.

That is just great !
 
Check out the pic i posted. I swear. I think the fishing is gonne be great!

Its basically my private lake. I haven't seen anyone else fishing it and there is almost no access to the public.

I haven't been so excited about fishing since i got my first blue gill at 5 years old.
I'd be out there with some plugs catching them lunker largemouth! I bet there is some monsters in there.
 
Lots of people fish them here in MN, land of 10,000 lakes. But I’m not sure how many people actually eat them....Most of the time you find them dead laying on the rocks or on the beach, I believe in Minnesota if you catch one you are not supposed to release it back...
 
Lots of people fish them here in MN, land of 10,000 lakes. But I’m not sure how many people actually eat them....Most of the time you find them dead laying on the rocks or on the beach, I believe in Minnesota if you catch one you are not supposed to release it back...

Some people smoke them for eating. Not me though, don't care for that flavor but others like 'em.
 
Lots of people fish them here in MN, land of 10,000 lakes. But I’m not sure how many people actually eat them....Most of the time you find them dead laying on the rocks or on the beach, I believe in Minnesota if you catch one you are not supposed to release it back...
What? Why wouldnt they want you to release it if your not gonna eat it?
 
Im not planning on eating the carp, just want to ketch em.

The cats and pan fish i will cook.

This side of the lake is attached to a huge lake by underground pipes that run under the hwy. The main lake is fished but folks don't t have access to this side and the home owners on this side are way to fancy to want to ketch their own fish.

No swimming, no dogs, no boats. Its clean as can get.

And yeah. I plan on doing all of the above!
 
Im not planning on eating the carp, just want to ketch em.

The cats and pan fish i will cook.

This side of the lake is attached to a huge lake by underground pipes that run under the hwy. The main lake is fished but folks don't t have access to this side and the home owners on this side are way to fancy to want to ketch their own fish.

No swimming, no dogs, no boats. Its clean as can get.

And yeah. I plan on doing all of the above!
No I wouldn't eat a carp either :eek:
 
Damn that brings back memories, was brought up in Wisconsin and used to spear them on and around Big Musekgo Lake when we were kids. Used to give them to some Old timers and they would smoke em' I didn't care for them very much!

Jeff
 
Unpressured waters can be good and bad. Too much population will stagnate growth. So if you have permission can you slide a piece of watercraft in? It can be like shooting fish in a barrel....

Have fun,
JW
 
Eating a Carp would be about like eating a Possum! :realcrazy: I used to fish for them when I was a kid, at a dedicated Carp lake where people fished Carp tournaments. I used dough balls, but have no idea what the recipe was....my uncle made it. Here's a Catfish tip. Buy or catch some nightcrawlers. Take a metal can, and drill some small holes in it. Put the worms in it, and rig the end back on it so it won't come off. Set the can with worms out in the sun, and let them get all cooked and stinky. Take the stinky worm can to the honey hole lake, and throw it as far out in the water as you can, and make sure to note where you threw it. Go back about 4 or 5 hours later, and all of the Catfish will be herded up around the can because it stinks. Cast fresh worms right around the can location, and you should be dragging Cats out as fast as you can unhook one and recast! Good luck, and have fun! :)
 
What? Why wouldnt they want you to release it if your not gonna eat it?

population control
these rules usually only apply to invasive species
the kind that don't have any natural predators here and will eat a body of water empty, destroying the food chain

so, to keep the overall population healthy, you are encouraged to take the evasive species out and kill em (I wish homeland security would get a hold of this)

as far as actually eating them, in my neck of the woods that seems to be something only Asians do
I don't know if it the Laotians or Chinese or all of them, but it seem that everytime anyone else catches a carp around here (or a sheepshead, for that matter) they give em to the asain guy who is fishing the same pier



Eating a Carp would be about like eating a Possum! :realcrazy: I used to fish for them when I was a kid, at a dedicated Carp lake where people fished Carp tournaments. I used dough balls, but have no idea what the recipe was....my uncle made it. Here's a Catfish tip. Buy or catch some nightcrawlers. Take a metal can, and drill some small holes in it. Put the worms in it, and rig the end back on it so it won't come off. Set the can with worms out in the sun, and let them get all cooked and stinky. Take the stinky worm can to the honey hole lake, and throw it as far out in the water as you can, and make sure to note where you threw it. Go back about 4 or 5 hours later, and all of the Catfish will be herded up around the can because it stinks. Cast fresh worms right around the can location, and you should be dragging Cats out as fast as you can unhook one and recast! Good luck, and have fun! :)

I think ive heard a similar approach used to bait bass
but then you put meat in the can and suspend it over the water
wait for the maggot to get in the meat, and fall out into the water
after a day or so of that, that spot should be crawling with bass
 
Eating a Carp would be about like eating a Possum! :realcrazy: I used to fish for them when I was a kid, at a dedicated Carp lake where people fished Carp tournaments. I used dough balls, but have no idea what the recipe was....my uncle made it. Here's a Catfish tip. Buy or catch some nightcrawlers. Take a metal can, and drill some small holes in it. Put the worms in it, and rig the end back on it so it won't come off. Set the can with worms out in the sun, and let them get all cooked and stinky. Take the stinky worm can to the honey hole lake, and throw it as far out in the water as you can, and make sure to note where you threw it. Go back about 4 or 5 hours later, and all of the Catfish will be herded up around the can because it stinks. Cast fresh worms right around the can location, and you should be dragging Cats out as fast as you can unhook one and recast! Good luck, and have fun! :)


Nice JD.... In the past to stir the crappie into a feeding frenzy I have take a tupperware bowl with a bunch of holes in and filled it with mashed up shrimp. Weight it down and put it a few feet in the water and shake, shake, shake... It works lol....

JW
 
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