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Title: Carp so far
Post by: SunFish on Jun 08, 2011, 09:54 PM
a couple for ya! (http://i51.tinypic.com/ivczzm.jpg)
(http://oi51.tinypic.com/14vntyv.jpg)
(http://i51.tinypic.com/9fo7px.jpg)
(http://i56.tinypic.com/34612ms.jpg)
(http://i51.tinypic.com/2i8ywhz.jpg)
(http://i53.tinypic.com/wkiq1y.jpg)
(http://i51.tinypic.com/v4tszt.jpg) hah my friend john proud of his personal best koi capture, and yes KOI and CARP are the same species just different colors
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: BBK on Jun 08, 2011, 10:13 PM
common koi and common carp are the same.. cant generalize and say all carp are the same as all koi. The first two pics are the only common carp I see.
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: SunFish on Jun 08, 2011, 10:27 PM
Yea excluding your other carp like grass carp...etc., I meant to say COMMON carp and COMMON koi are the same species, as for the other carp those are just another variation of commons called mirror carp, bred over time for a long period to produce the fish with only a few scales making them easier to clean and eat.
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: buzzbomb on Jun 12, 2011, 07:33 AM
Nice pics sunfish!  Mirrors are rare where I fish and we don't have any exotics (with the exception of some koi in a power plant resevoir).  My boss had 3 fish in a tank and said they were koi but 1 was a perfect common (though 3" long).  How does the recessive gene get buried?  Is it that koi, (or mirrors or leathers) breed with commons and if both don't have that gene the fry are all commons so they lose the colors and those fry will only spawn some more koi when bred with other gene carriers?  I've been carping for about 10 years on a huge lake and still haven't seen a mirror in person. 
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: Raquettedacker on Jun 12, 2011, 07:54 AM
Geat pictures SunFish...   Way to go... :thumbup_smilie: :clapping:
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: hook-set on Jun 12, 2011, 08:07 AM
common koi and common carp are the same.. cant generalize and say all carp are the same as all koi. The first two pics are the only common carp I see.
those are common carp and mirror carp ..either way nice job sunfish !!!!!!
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: Madpuppy on Jun 18, 2011, 04:36 PM
Nice fish there Sunfish, the mirrors are pretty cool lookin' eh.  Around here we call the mirrors German Carp, not sure why it's just what the old timers like me call em'. Good job my friend and by the way I'm diggin the hair in the second to last photo :thumbup_smilie:. Looks a little like Horshack from "Welcome back Kotter", man do I feel old now.

Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: SunFish on Jun 18, 2011, 10:05 PM
Nice fish there Sunfish, the mirrors are pretty cool lookin' eh.  Around here we call the mirrors German Carp, not sure why it's just what the old timers like me call em'. Good job my friend and by the way I'm diggin the hair in the second to last photo :thumbup_smilie:. Looks a little like Horshack from "Welcome back Kotter", man do I feel old now.


Yeah thats my personal best koi and personal best bad hair day!!
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: SunFish on Jun 18, 2011, 10:11 PM
(http://i54.tinypic.com/6tifll.jpg) new personal best common of 20 pounds
(http://oi51.tinypic.com/sey93r.jpg) 19 pounder that I had already lost a few days back and caught again
(http://i51.tinypic.com/5vazo3.jpg)
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: hammercarp on Jun 21, 2011, 09:10 PM
Well done. Mirrors are few and far between here. Koi are almost unheard of in the wild. WTG young man.
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: SunFish on Jun 21, 2011, 10:03 PM
Well done. Mirrors are few and far between here. Koi are almost unheard of in the wild. WTG young man.
THanks
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: youngster on Jun 23, 2011, 04:30 PM
great lookin fish congrats.. ive been tryin to get my 8 yr old some big ones. so far 10 lbs has been the biggest. goodluck
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: Madpuppy on Jun 24, 2011, 09:54 AM
Do you catch and release Sunfish or do you eat those bad boys?
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: SunFish on Jun 26, 2011, 01:52 PM
Do you catch and release Sunfish or do you eat those bad boys?
Fry them bad boys up dipped in mud, joking I catch and release all of my carp, no sense eating a fish that feeds on mud
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: Madpuppy on Jun 27, 2011, 03:09 PM
If ya got a smoker try smoked Carp sometime, mmmmmm good.
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: SunFish on Jun 28, 2011, 09:21 PM
If ya got a smoker try smoked Carp sometime, mmmmmm good.
haha maybe sometime..........
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: Madpuppy on Jun 29, 2011, 06:09 PM
haha maybe sometime..........
I'm serious as a heart attack, skin em out, cut out the back bone and cut out the belly from the bunger to the gills and snap the head off. Then score the carp with cuts a quarter of an inch apart and soak him in salt water over night then put him in the smoker and smoke em up til they flake. It don't  get no better.
:thumbup_smilie:
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: SunFish on Jun 30, 2011, 07:24 AM
I just like catching them, and most places I catch them from are loaded with PCB's in the water..(http://i56.tinypic.com/300wvw4.jpg) another one from the other day
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: powdiddy on Jun 30, 2011, 07:49 AM
fun fish to catch looks like you are doing alright at it.
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: SunFish on Jun 30, 2011, 08:52 AM
fun fish to catch looks like you are doing alright at it.
Thats a nice on in your signature! Is that atleast 30 pounds?
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: powdiddy on Jun 30, 2011, 09:19 AM
37 lbs my 2nd biggest so far.
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: SunFish on Jun 30, 2011, 11:15 AM
37 lbs my 2nd biggest so far.
NICE DUDE! :o
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: bigredfishing on Jun 30, 2011, 11:45 AM
I see you fish all the same places I do for carp.  I love the "duckpond" in Waterford.  It seems like those little carp will bite any time I'm there.  Night time, Day time, freezing cold and snowing or heat as heck and sunny, I always seem to catch a ton there.  (There are surprisingly huge largemouth in that pond too)

Have you ever tried the Tomhannock? That place has the biggest carp in the area.  

Hoosick River is also loaded with carp, they just never seem to get over 30lbs in there.
Title: Re: Carp so far
Post by: SunFish on Jun 30, 2011, 09:32 PM
I see you fish all the same places I do for carp.  I love the "duckpond" in Waterford.  It seems like those little carp will bite any time I'm there.  Night time, Day time, freezing cold and snowing or heat as heck and sunny, I always seem to catch a ton there.  (There are surprisingly huge largemouth in that pond too)

Have you ever tried the Tomhannock? That place has the biggest carp in the area.  

Hoosick River is also loaded with carp, they just never seem to get over 30lbs in there.
yeah its a nice little pond. And yes the tomhanock is a big secret for the top of top carp fisherman ive tried with no success, the fish are few and far between there. Hoosic river is also good for quantity not exactly quality but still holds some big fish with a nice average weight.