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Location: Iowa | SORRY GUYS, just had to do it. My 50LB scale went to 53 and stopped before the fish all the way out of the water. I was throwing a DDD when I felt something different at the end of a rip. I set the hook and the fish went under the boat and deep, and pulled out a LOT of drag on the Revo Toro. Finally got it turned around, adrenaline trying to pound my heart out of my chest, trying to hold net and get fish to the surface. Then I see the CARP!! What a let down. Felt like the Army all over again, build you up just to knock you down. It was still a fun fight! For the record, it is my heaviest fish to date! I tried to get a pic of me holding it, but when I reached under the gill and started to pick up, it just started to rip. He was just a tad too big for 1 guy to do the photo thing.
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| hahaahaha DANGGGGGGG thats a huge carp. you're right that fight would have been awesome |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | That is a BIG carp! |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Have you noticed we're seeing more pictures of large carp than we used to? I think the "Good Old Days" are right now.
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Location: Iowa | I just looked up carp in the record books for Iowa. Bighead carp-48" and 54 lbs. Common carp-44" and 50 lbs. I did not measure, and my scale is not certified, but I'm going to check it tomorrow. I may have very well let a state record go! I really thought the state record carp would be bigger than that. |
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| Carp are an invasive species. I hope you killed it. |
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Location: Iowa | HHound - 11/28/2010 12:14 AM
Carp are an invasive species. I hope you killed it.
No, actually I didn't. I didn't have the gun in the boat today. Or a club, or knife. I really didn't feel like beaching the boat on the rocks to drag it up the bank either. I guess I could have put it in the livewell and discarded of it later. Seems like an awful lot of trouble just to kill a carp though. I left the quick-strike rigs at home or I could have used it for bait I guess. |
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| i like the idea of using it for bait. |
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| huge fish. he is vacuuming the bottom now |
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Location: oswego, il | Too bad you did not get a good pic of you and the fish. I am sure Drifter Tackle would have liked to use it in their ads. 
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Location: Iowa | ToddM - 11/28/2010 8:23 AM
Too bad you did not get a good pic of you and the fish. I am sure Drifter Tackle would have liked to use it in their ads. :)
That would be a funny ad. I was happy with how the Tackle Industries rod handled it too. I'm as happy with it as I am with my higher priced rods. |
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| As one who has fished carp in the past and enjoyed them, and probably will again, I have to say, this thing is awesome.
I can imagine the fight was a good one. Wish you could have got a better picture to give the fish it's true scale. Judging from the way he filled the net, this was a big one, and the proportions appear beautiful on this fish. Probably a true catch of a lifetime. I would have been pleased as punch to catch a fish this big. Big big big. |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | I would have loved to tangle with that beast. It's interesting to watch a person's demeanor change from "I'm in the fight of my life with this fish" to "Aw crap, it's just a carp" once the fish is identified...I've seen it several times. They are one of the best fights in the freshwater fish world, but when not targeted, a bit of a disappointment I guess.
Oh, and where I live, muskies are non-native and would be considered an invasive species too.
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| sorenson - 11/28/2010 9:16 AM
I would have loved to tangle with that beast. It's interesting to watch a person's demeanor change from "I'm in the fight of my life with this fish" to "Aw crap, it's just a carp" once the fish is identified...I've seen it several times. They are one of the best fights in the freshwater fish world, but when not targeted, a bit of a disappointment I guess.
Oh, and where I live, muskies are non-native and would be considered an invasive species too.
S.
I know what you are saying, but I can guarantee if that was me that caught this, my comment on seeing it would be HOLY S####!!! Look at the size of that carp!
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| I fish a cooling lake not too far from my house and I cast smaller crankbaits for a variety of fish. I can always be assured that at least one of them if not a few will be carp hooked in the mouth. So many shad, the carp have adapted to feeding on them, I have even watched them chase down my crankbait and eat it. |
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Location: VA | That fish would have been treasured in my boat ANY DAY of the week. All day long for that matter. That carp is a real trophy, congratulations! I had one follow a hellhound a few weeks back that was in the 30lb range but nothing like the 50 you had. DANDY fish.
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| As far as I am concerned, a 50lb ANYTHING in fresh water is a trophy!
Congratulations!
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Location: Iowa | Don't get me wrong guys. It was a blast fighting it. Even when I realized what it was I did everything I could to keep it hooked and get it in the net, which no easy task. I have fished for carp before too, and had fun doing it. I knew when it took off and pulled drag like it was nothing, that it was the biggest fish I've ever had hooked. I wish I could have gotten a better picture too. I just got that boat last fall and I keep forgetting it's got a 50 inch livewell!!! I should have shoved it in there and had one of the guys in the other boat on the lake snap a picture for me. I was just a little let down, and not thinking clearly. |
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Location: Rhinelander. | Yjat would have been alot of smoked carp. Good excuse for a party and reason to drink beer. good old salty smoked carp!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Davenport, IA | I'm still waiting for carp fishing to catch on in the US. It is huge in Europe. They are a lot of fun to catch. They taste great smoked too. I'm glad muskie fishermen are saying, "It is invasive, you should kill it." It makes us sound more credible when stocking lakes where they are not native. It gives bass, walleye, ect fishermen a good reason to cut the heads off the muskies they catch. |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | sorenson - 11/28/2010 9:16 AM
Oh, and where I live, muskies are non-native and would be considered an invasive species too.
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An "invasive species" is defined as a species that is
1) non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration and
2) whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.
Muskie fits in with part 1 of definition but can you explain how a muskie fits into part 2? |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | fish4musky1 - 11/28/2010 8:57 PM
sorenson - 11/28/2010 9:16 AM
Oh, and where I live, muskies are non-native and would be considered an invasive species too.
S. An "invasive species" is defined as a species that is
1) non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration and
2) whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. Muskie fits in with part 1 of definition but can you explain how a muskie fits into part 2?
2) Economic harm - Utah derives most of it's license dollars from trout angling and retail sales associated with trout angling contribute millions to the state's economy. Introducing a self-reproducing apex predator to trout fisheries generally spells bad news for the trout.
It's one of the reasons that importation of northern pike is illegal in Utah also. We can and do use sterile hybrids (tigers) obviously, but the fertile, pure strain parent stocks are not put into the wild.
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| Carp love 6" Jakes |
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| Been many a heart broke by those big old grassies. I have never been hooked into anything that pulls like them. Common carp got nothing on the white amur. Great catch, I love it. |
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| HHound - 11/28/2010 12:14 AM
Carp are an invasive species. I hope you killed it.
Grass carp are stocked (or at least where stocked) in many Iowa lakes. Not positive that's the state this one was caught in but if so than it's definately not considered an invasive.
I've tangled with a few in the low 30's but never hooked up on any of the giants like that one. Congrats even if it was a let for it not to be a skie. |
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Location: Antioch IL | Here is one i got this year in the back yard.
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Location: VA | Sweet fish Tking!
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Location: Iowa | Schuler - 11/28/2010 7:14 PM
I'm still waiting for carp fishing to catch on in the US. It is huge in Europe. They are a lot of fun to catch. They taste great smoked too. I'm glad muskie fishermen are saying, "It is invasive, you should kill it." It makes us sound more credible when stocking lakes where they are not native. It gives bass, walleye, ect fishermen a good reason to cut the heads off the muskies they catch.
I hear you on that. You've fished the lake I got it out of. Maybe I should or shouldn't have killed it. But then again, maybe the guy that catches that 50 inch plus muskie should or shouldn't kill it. It is a stocked lake, so most likely a muskie will not reproduce with any success there.
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Location: Iowa | ChadG - 11/29/2010 10:34 AM
Been many a heart broke by those big old grassies. I have never been hooked into anything that pulls like them. Common carp got nothing on the white amur. Great catch, I love it.
THANK YOU CHAD!!!!! Why didn't you tell me their real name this weekend?? That state record is 85 1/2 pounds. I was starting to think I let a record fish go, even if it was a carp. I feel a LOT better now. Oh yeah, I might be able to get out again in 2 weeks if it's not iced up. I'll let you know. |
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Location: Northern IL | 1st, congratulations on a big huge fish, even if it was what we like to call the "golden muskie".
However, sorry I guess I'm in the minority and never could get too excited about carp, yea we've fished for em too and I agree any 50lbs fish will get the blood moving but most every time while fishing on muskies waters and a carp is "snagged", not saying your was nor does it matter or do I care, and sometimes you get em in the lips but more often in the tail. I'll admit it turns out to be a movement of a big let down. We've lipped a bunch of big buffalo in the fall out on the Mad chain and you would have sworn it was another good ski just the way it smacked it and many times just after catching a couple muskie right off the same spot, they can be a foolers. Nice job.
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