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MyFishFinder By Species => Carp => Topic started by: Fatboy8 on May 16, 2009, 06:39 PM
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I go down to a local pond every few days.I have seen some monsters in here I'm talking 20 pounds plus. I see them jump fighting and just sitting near the surface. This past week i decided to begin to target them so i looked around on the internet and found bread worked good and chumming it helps bring them in. Boy was that a disaster the bread wouldnt stay on the hook for more then 5 seconds without falling off the carp wouldnt even touch the chum. then i found a few large worms put them on and caught a 13 inch perch no luck with the carp. Then i decided to go to dicks get serious buy carp bait went back to my spot carp werent jumping fighting etc anywhere on the lake like usual. all they were doing was sitting on the surface i put on rod on the bottom let it sit then had another one that i would cast away from the fish then reel it in near it so they could see it. No luck not a fish and its the eagle claw carp bait. Can some help me unlock Pandoras box and help me catch one. Any tips baits any info im brand new to this and almost clueless. Any help would be apperciated.
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Ok, first off, settle down its a CARP! 2nd, get a bow and set it up for bow fishing. 3 buy some whole kernel canned corn; bunch of worms and look up dough balls on the net. Last but not least, get some beer, clear the schedule for the day and fish untill your heart or carp is content. ;)
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Wheatie balls. Take a handfull of wheaties (yes the cereal) and crumble them until they go to crumbs. Then put a little bit of water in your hand and keep mixing until it gets firm. Use dime to quarter size pieces on a #6 treble. Carp and catfish LOVE it. Even caught a few goldfish on them.
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Goldfish? ???
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Goldfish? ???
Had one over 3lbs. I've caught quite a few in the last few years.
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I mean ive been out about 6 times for them and i cant get them to bite. But trust me there are plenty of them in there. Anyone have any advice on what I should do? I'm starting to think its the Eagle claw carp bait because the carp wont even hit it.
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You dont need a very big hook. Make sure your bait covers most of the hook, Im saying all but the point. Carp feel with there lips so dont use real heavey line and ALWAYS use a slip sinker with a SMALL split sot.
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yeah ive been actually using a lindy rig and with the small hook of it the big eagle claw carp balls cover it right up. To be honest though the bait brings them in they i normally see at least 5-8 carp in like a ten foot area of the bait they just wont go for it.
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Most of the Carp I have caught have been at night. Have you tried fishing for them then??
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yesterday i fished from about 5 until my pond closed at 8. At about 7:45 my one rod i had out with the carp bait and a giant nightcrawler got a hit for the first time all day. Whatever it was kept playing with it and tapping it. I got a little excited and instead of waited for whatever it was to hook itself i tried to set it big mistake the carp bait was gone but the worm was there. I didnt see any of the carp bait float up in the water so maybe a carp took it. If it was a carp i would have expected it to just take it in one to two hits instead of the five or ten hits that i saw.
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Corn meal balls with treble hook buried inside
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Is there heavy fishing pressure in this pond?
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Find some strawberry dough bait and use a #8 treble hook .Make sure you cover the whole hook , and do not use any sinkers.We used to catch alot of them this way
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camocrazy82 the carp population here is never touched and there is only about 2-8 people there a day and its about a one to two acre pond. I just have no clue what it is. I tell people sometimes when im there im fishing for carp and i just get laughed at for it then they ask to see my membership badge cause no member there fishes for anything but the trout.
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finally caught one on sunday night. I will post a picture he wasnt a monster but still a solid fish and fun to catch. Only bummer was i wasnt paying attention to my rodes then i see my 7 ft ugly stick just about in the water ran over set the hook and about a few seconds later the hook broke that was a big carp only caught a glimpse of him. i felt like i was at the jersey shore hooking into a striper in the fall. the carp was pushing about 20 pounds.
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:clapping: We knew you could do it! I have had more than one rod go in because of Carp. A little hint, Bait Clicker.
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yeah i had the two rod limit out. I was there for like three hours and i just finally decided to stretch my legs so im staring at this guy who is fishing the complete other end from me and theres a little wall around the pond so i threw the tackle box on top of that then the rod resting against that. so all in all this rod almost went two feet over the tackle box and wall into the water. But if i had caught that carp i could not have landed it i barley got the one i did in the net. our pond had repairs on the walls so they drained it a bit so im sitting on the wall then theres about a two foot drop then water with the net in one hand fish in the water rod in the other about to fall in just netting it.(should have bought a longer net) All in all put up a zig zag fight so im fighting the fish with one arm the the other is picking up my other rod so i didnt tangle. it was a good time also caught a smoking 14 inch bullhead.