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MyFishFinder By Species => Carp => Topic started by: Ethan on Jun 17, 2007, 05:09 PM
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Always seeing lots of carp but dont no what to use, can ya help me with this
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i usually use like bread or sometimes nightcrawlers works for me
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Muzzy arrow,lol.
I use to catch them on a night crawler while bullhead fishing.
My buddy uses corn with great success.
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ive caught them on catfish stinky bait too...
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bread balls works best for me,,, lots of fun
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corn
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Thanks guys i'm going to try all of those ways,i've heard of most of those baits but wasn't sure how true it was that they would catch carp
Spikehorn11,the Muzzy arrow is the best bait of all
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Yellow can corn, sometimes adding a little bit of vanilla makes all the difference in the world.
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corn - buy a can of whole kernel corn, put a few on the hook and scatter a handfull around your hook (chum).
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cooked cornmeal,yellow. cook it until it is like a rubber ball. wrap in foil and brake off enough to cover the hook, about the size of a gulf ball when ready to fish. Adding a small amount of vanilla flavoring while cooking is another option. This is dynamite bait for Delaware and Raritan river carp.
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chum is the key. corn is what i use most but i will use salt potato's once in a while to switch things up.
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Thanks guys i'm going to try all of those ways,i've heard of most of those baits but wasn't sure how true it was that they would catch carp
Spikehorn11,the Muzzy arrow is the best bait of all
Yeah you can force feed it to them,lol. ;D
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Yeah you can force feed it to them,lol. ;D
OR a AMS bowfishing arow ::)
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Corn works well for me. Chum, bait hook, and wait...... ;D
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Bread is my go-to bait. If i see them surface feeding, I just put a little bit of crust on my hook and let it float right in front of them! slurp slurp 8)
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corn and worms.
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Always seeing lots of carp but dont no what to use, can ya help me with this
CORN.
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Regarding corn as bait ...
I've heard fish (like people) can't digest corn and it shouldn't be used for bait, though that may apply more for fishing stocked ponds than carp.
Not passing judgement here, especially if you're targeting carp, just wondering is anyone else has heard corn isn't good for fish.
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I always used an aluminum shaft arrow tipped with a barbbed fishing point. For carp only. If you are seeing them you can shoot them. Check your local laws first though.
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can anyone tell me what to use for chum? i seen a guy with a bucket full of hay, corn and other stuff. does anyone know or can anyone help me?????????
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can anyone tell me what to use for chum? i seen a guy with a bucket full of hay, corn and other stuff. does anyone know or can anyone help me?????????
Cheap and easy chum is Poulty Finisher or some kind of chicken feed. I go to Tractor Supply (dont know if they are in your area) any feed/farm store should have some sort of poultry feed though. Dump that into a bucket and also mix in field corn. Make it wet so it binds up. Ball it up and throw it into the water. Cheap and works good. I also throw old cereal, bread, corn chips etc into the mix instead of throwing them in the trash.
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this is the stuff... http://www.tackletour.com/reviewunclejoshcarpbait.html (http://www.tackletour.com/reviewunclejoshcarpbait.html)
If you buy that you WILL NOT REGRET IT. when i moved to college one of the only things to fish around there was carp and i would go 4 days a week and they would not take anything as much as this. Ball it right up on a treble, i used like a size 2 because the carp there were huge. I also used 60lb braided bc they were breaking 30lb braided sometimes. I fished in a strong current and had to use a 3 oz weight to get it to stay on bottom then propped the pole up. When the tension came off the line that meant a fish hit, just like a downrigger. This time of year if you see them surfacing they are not feeding. There's no actual proven point as to what they're doing but it has to do with pre spawning i guess and are not going after food on the surface. You could also try fly fishing for them... rgfixit knows a lot about that and gave me some good info.
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Who wants to catch an ugly Carp in the first place? haha
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Who wants to catch an ugly Carp in the first place? haha
I take it you've never caught a big one... They fight soooo hard and its even better in a big river with a decent current. Catch one over 25 lbs and youll know what im talking about.
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I fished carp all the time when I lived in Kalamazoo. Fished a damned up Lake that was part of the Kalamazoo River system and it was FULL of carp. lots of 5-8lbs, but I took two really nice fish, both master angler fish, and lost 2 or 3 that were 35+. But in that system I found a deep hole where the current was rippin (8' where the rest of the lake is 4-5 at best) and anchor up from it and cast back with a slip rig system with a short shank bait keeper hook, and 1/2oz weight and a nose hooked full crawler. Straight $$Money$$! Pics are on here somewhere...
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Rabbit food is the easiest chum there is. Cheap, effective and it doesn't go bad or stink.
Hooks!!!
You need to use a hair rig to hook a carp in the lip and release them without harm. It's far more effective and less damaging than trebles and a standard rig.
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RG
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Rabbit food is the easiest chum there is. Cheap, effective and it doesn't go bad or stink.
Hooks!!!
You need to use a hair rig to hook a carp in the lip and release them without harm. It's far more effective and less damaging than trebles and a standard rig.
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RG
Do you have more detailed info. on how to tie those hair rigs you showed in your post.....or possibly re-direct me to some sites
that deal with carp fishing........so I could learn more about some new techniques.
I've been fishing for carp......it seems like for ever......mainly using and chumming with corn......its a ton of fun.
Recently thanks to this site....I find myself wanting to know more about these new rigs and techniques to catch these
golden salmon......Thankx
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Check the other post regarding hair rigs. If you need step by step...I'll get the digital out tomorrow (after I go carp hunting in my favorite stream) and take some instructional photos.
RG
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Check the other post regarding hair rigs. If you need step by step...I'll get the digital out tomorrow (after I go carp hunting in my favorite stream) and take some instructional photos.
RG
I'm heading out for walleye in the a.m., if that dosent work out try to find some northerns.......conditions are right on the verge
of pickin up. At the same time the big carp are starting to roll in at night at one of my favorite spots. If I fish at night......I cant get up in the morning.
Ever notice that everything starts biting all at once? Not to mention all those trout and bass I have to find time for........isnt it great?
I 'll have to brush up on my knots and figure this hair rig out......seems to be the setup of choice. I appreciate the advice.
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Great minds, I guess....I went for Walleye this morning too. Got 2 nice ones, a ton of bass and a fat pike. The smallmouth were huge. Water temps hit 62 today and they were hungry.
RG
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Great minds, I guess....I went for Walleye this morning too. Got 2 nice ones, a ton of bass and a fat pike. The smallmouth were huge. Water temps hit 62 today and they were hungry.
RG
You ended up alot better than I did......Fished with a buddy of mine.....he's alittle impatient....so my plans had to be altered.
Ended up with alot of bass .....no pike ......no walleye. Next weekend goin alone.....so I can stick with my plan and hopefully
bag a few eyes. I still cant believe it the water temp. is still not where I want it to be.......still around 58.
Oh yeah we also caught a sailboater......this guy was out on the lake in a one man sailboat........he flips it.......we were heading
for home cant figure out what the heck that object is floatin in the lake. Anyways hes sitting on top of it.....and NO life preserver
......what a GOOF...............anyways we help him get right side up and towed to shore.....amongst the white caps.
Hope that guy uses his noggin next time.
Hopefully this week I get out for some carp.......later
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There's a lot of fools out there ???
I had a "Bass Guy" tell me I was cheatin' using crawlers for bait.........even called me a "slob".
In fact, I was catching bass and he wasn't...(walleye too).
He had a nice boat though ::)
RG
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spinnerbite was that out on oneida at the north end?
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spinnerbite was that out on oneida at the north end?
No,.....why was there another knucklehead in the same predicament on Oneida?
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There's a lot of fools out there ???
I had a "Bass Guy" tell me I was cheatin' using crawlers for bait.........even called me a "slob".
In fact, I was catching bass and he wasn't...(walleye too).
He had a nice boat though ::)
RG
Heres a question for you ......what would you rather have a NICE boat or a NICE bunch of fish.......I know which one I'd choose ;D
I've had plenty of time to study these "Bass Guys" and other types of species specific fisherman.......I find'em pretty boring. A fisherman
that enjoys all types of fishing is the guy you want to have a conversation with anyway.
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PEPSI CornMeal DOUGHBALL! :w00t: ITHACA CARP KING! :w00t:
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oatmeal dough ball. ;)
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I have had luck catching them on Jigs tipped with a mr twister.. Worms and CORN.. I caught my biggest one on a tip up with a small shiner.. 41lbs on 10lb tst..
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Here he is...
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That's gotta be some kind of record through the ice. WOW!
RG
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howd you get it through the hole?? :o........oh ya i like the muzzy arrow for bait too outfishes anything else ;D
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Had to make the hole ALOT bigger!!! I was using a 8'' hole and he/she had a 30'' girth... I was on 3'' of crystal clear table top ice, got to watch the whole thing!
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how big was that fish, my buddy caught a 43# a few years ago and he said it would have been the state record but it died before he weighed it or somethin, he has a picture of it on his myspace but i dont know if i can get a picture from there on here
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how big was that fish, my buddy caught a 43# a few years ago and he said it would have been the state record but it died before he weighed it or somethin, he has a picture of it on his myspace but i dont know if i can get a picture from there on here
The Indiana state record is 43lbs 4 oz. The fish does not need to be alive to get it certified but it will loose weight when it dies.
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It used to be mounted in Renekers Sport Shop on St Rd 15 North in Warsaw. Dont know if it still is.
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The Indiana state record is 43lbs 4 oz. The fish does not need to be alive to get it certified but it will loose weight when it dies.
the kid that caught it is the type of person that will catch a 15'' bass and when i get to school someone will ask me ''did adam really catch a 8 pound bass?'' so in other words he exagerates but this fish was 44 pounds 5 ounces.. he caught it out of koontz lake, he fishes for them all the time and really does well almost every time he will get one near 20#