Fishing Question

mbalbritton

mbalbritton

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Mar 22, 2005
Location
Lakeland, FL
So I live on a 6 acre Lake. Typical fish for a Farm pond, Brim, Crappie, Bass, Cats, and a few Carp.

I walked down for 15 minutes of fishing this weekend with my Trout Spinning set up and an 1/8 Roster Tail spinner intending to catch Crappie and Bass. Caught a few, but nothing to speak of. Started walking back around heading to the house and see large sillohete (sp?) swim over a log. thinking by the size of it it must be a carp, about 2' long. I toss my spinner out about 3' in front and 4' past and bring it back and I see it lung out an grab my spinner. It takes off stripping line like it was a marlin. Not hard to do on this 4 lb test set up. takes a couple runs at me, a few away, rolls, but never jumps for me to see what it was. Ends up throwing the spinner and I loose it.

If it was a bass, it was a NICE one, but it never jumped or tried to. Acted like a carp, but I've never seen or heard of one lunging after and taking a spinner. Have any of you?

Whatever it was, it sure was a fun run while it lasted though.
 
Never, but fish do crazy stuff sometimes. I caught a 3-4 pound flathead cat on High Rock last year.... 1/8 ounce chartuse rooster tail. I don't know what type of carp you have, but I've heard of keeping them around to keep the grass beds from gettin out of hand.

A buddy of mine swore he caught a gar out of the Yadkin.
 
I caught a catfish on a Beetlespin at Falls Lake last week. I'd never heard of catfish hitting a spinner, either.

And there are gar in Crabtree Creek and the Neuse.

There was one about 6 feet long that lived behind the old Pontiac dealership (was Amburn Pontiac back then) back in the 80's. My dad was the body shop manager and I used to go to work with him during the summer and fish.
He hooked that big gar 3 different times, but we never could get it on the bank....it was huge. Had a little one that followed it around all the time.
 
I have caught a catfish on a flyrod using an ant targeting bream in summer.
Hell I caught a carp trout fishing last fall. Fish are as weird as fisherman:flipoff2:
 
Yea, don't usually hear of carp doin that, but it still coulda been. You did see it swimmin around a log, usually good spots for bass. And yes, if it was a 2' bass, then it woulda been a nice one!
 
i have been fishing in ponds where there are carp and normally the only way they will even look at my lure is if it is green but they still dont ever bite. more than likely it was a catfish. a bass def would have jumped out of the water if you were fighting one long enough for it to take line out and come back at you and then take off again.
 
In smaller ponds like that I have noticed that any fish will sometimes bite on whatever is there...for the bass I would throw a carolina rigged trick worm...its been my favorite bass lure for about a year now and has worked well in all conditions depending on color of worm used.
 
Caught a carp in Jordan Lake using a white crappie jig. Was messing around with some bream off the back of the boat, had been throwing out leftover hotdog buns from lunch (chumming?) and there were a lot of bream around. Had caught a few bream on that jig, and then all of a sudden the rod bent over and I was like "what the hell?" It was a carp, about 4 pounds (still fought hard, but was not the size of the fish you described seeing).

But I have been in other lakes where I could see tons of carp, and none would bite. I was told the trick to catching carp is to get them feeding on something (like throw out a can of corn), and then they'll bite once they get active.

Can you eat carp? I always put them back in, but my dad told me the following carp recipe:

1) Get a flat board
2) Cover it with horse crap
3) Lay the carp on top
4) Cook the whole assembly
5) Throw the carp away
6) Eat the board and horse crap

He thinks he is so funny! :)
 
all these names of rigs...... i'm so confused, haha
 
I know what a carolina rig is, but a carolina rig trick worm?? Someone please explain.


The feeding thing works for carp and cats. Bait it on a regular basis to keep them in the area. Most carp fishermen have their own homemade dough they like to use.
 
You wanna see how many cats ya got, buy some floating pond fish food and start feeding them a small bucket full every day.
Once they get used to you, you will see them swim towards you when you go to the pond at feeding time.
 
I went fishing a couple of weeks ago off of Lake Tillery and caught a channel catfish on a roostertail. I also caught 2 small bass, 2 crappie,2 sunfish, 1 bluegill, and some other fish I didn't know, off of the same roostertail. I love roostertails.
 
You live on a lake? Hmmmmmmmmm...
I havent been fishing in ages..
What would it take to talk you into some company?

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R Q said:
You wanna see how many cats ya got, buy some floating pond fish food and start feeding them a small bucket full every day.
Once they get used to you, you will see them swim towards you when you go to the pond at feeding time.
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Carp will do it too. We get the Koi (decorative japanese carp) to feed from our hands....
 
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