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Location: Eastern Ontario | Only for a short time, but Ive been watching You Tube videos of guys Carp fishing the St. Lawrence not to far from where i will be keeping my boat. Thinking of giving it a try before muskie opens if I don`t have to make too big an investment in equipment. Some of these guys have invested pretty serious coin in their toy`s but they are catching multiple 25 to 35 pound fish in a morning,looks like fun.
Edited by horsehunter 3/7/2019 3:38 PM
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| Growing up in the 60s, I lived two blocks from the Wisconsin River, in Wis. Rapids. The only fish that could survive in what was at the time an open industrial sewer were bull heads and carp. The best carp fishing was in the summer up by the canning factory. They discharged bean waste directly into the river and it attracted carp. Why those carp who were stuffed with bean waste would take a hook with a couple kernels of canned corn we never knew but they did. We would buy cheap 1,000 yard spools of 8 or 10 pound mono and fish them on spinning reels/rods. We sometimes got spooled and had to reload right there on the bank. The 5 to 10 pounders were the ones who ran like that. The big ones bull dogged on the bottom.
We had an old brass scale that we hung from a tree and used it to weigh the biggest ones to see who won bragging rights that day. It bottomed out at 50 pounds and we had a couple that dragged it all the way down.
A.J. McClane, a long time fishing editor and author once wrote that the carp was the strongest fighting fresh water fish. He said if you tied a ten pound carp tail to tail with a 10 pound trout, the carp would pull the trout inside out. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Guy`s are flying over from Europe to fish carp in the St Lawrence and other North American destinations. I`m thinking when it`s happening less than an hour from the house and 10 minutes from my boat I should at least give it a try before musky season opens. In north America salt water fish are prized on their fight bone fish, tarpon for example and freshwater by taste with walleye that fight like a hockey sock at the top of the list. Musky guys are a bit different as we were early to the catch enjoy the fight and release to fight again attitude. Growing up in Toronto in the 50`s and 60`s it was common to see large tanks of live carp for sale in the supermarkets. Back then I used to shoot them with a bow when they were in shallow. I keep telling Billy ( Trophyhunter ) when were bouncing around in 4 foot waves that sitting in a lawn chair with a sling shot is becoming very appealing. |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Go for it, all fish are fun! It would be way too funny if you caught an muskie on a couple of sweet corn kernels.
SWORRALL: New webpage -. CarpFIRST. "The IoT World's finest source for finesse fishing techniques."
Have Fun!
Al
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| horsehunter - 3/8/2019 5:33 AM
Guy`s are flying over from Europe to fish carp in the St Lawrence and other North American destinations. I`m thinking when it`s happening less than an hour from the house and 10 minutes from my boat I should at least give it a try before musky season opens. In north America salt water fish are prized on their fight bone fish, tarpon for example and freshwater by taste with walleye that fight like a hockey sock at the top of the list. Musky guys are a bit different as we were early to the catch enjoy the fight and release to fight again attitude. Growing up in Toronto in the 50`s and 60`s it was common to see large tanks of live carp for sale in the supermarkets. Back then I used to shoot them with a bow when they were in shallow. I keep telling Billy ( Trophyhunter ) when were bouncing around in 4 foot waves that sitting in a lawn chair with a sling shot is becoming very appealing.
We did bow fish them as well. Normally in shallow bays but one day we were rowing across the river from one spot to another when my buddy saw one in open water, right under the surface. I rowed us along side and he hit it dead center. Only problem was it was about 40 pounds and even with both of us pulling on the line he towed our 12' row boat all over the river for about 10 minutes until he got so tired we could get him to the boat. Talk about power. |
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| The place where I fished as a kid had a small creek on the property that eventually made its way to the Fox River. Anytime we had a good rain they'd swim up the creek and try to jump the dam to get into the lake. The real fun happened in June when they came back from the lake to spawn in the creek and adjacent bay by the hundreds. Later in the season when water levels were low there were areas of the creek where they'd get trapped. We did everything we could to get rid of as many of them as possible. Huh. Now that I think about it, carp are pretty smart. They taught me rifle skills, archery, spearing, and even how to swing a golf club! Ate one once about 40 years ago. I won't be doing that again. |
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| I sight fly fish for them on beautiful flats on Erie in May and June. It’s a great time. |
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Location: Duluth | Used to sight fish them on the fly in the dead of summer on the Little Miami River in Cincinnati. Thankfully I moved north so dont have to occupy my time with them anymore, but it is an absolute hoot |
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| Curious if anyone else has memory of bowfishing the Wauka creek near Omro Wisconsin? In the early 70’s the Fox also produced walleye and white bass, but giant carp in that creek made me into quite an archer back then. |
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| After busting up a good half a dozen fiberglass arrows with the spearfishing tip and a bunch of his broadheads my father got tired of going to Gander all of the time and bought me a giant box of the cheapest field tips he could find. They were so cheap they didn't even fly straight. By the end of that season you could see everywhere I'd been because everything in sight had arrows sticking out of it. I had some fun toys as a kid... A slingshot and 1/2" steel shot was fun too. If you hit them right in the head it would stun them long enough go out there with a piece of conduit and clobber them. That got expensive too. That was when I discovered taconite pellets. And M-80's...
My poor mother. She probably figured I was going to grow up to be a serial killer...
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Thinking of going over to the dark side.