Thread: Fish O Mania

Originally Posted by no1son

Sorry dude, I am amused but not impressed.

You would be if you fished with them. Any decent pole angler would out fish you 10 to 1. (With Ringer, it would be 20 to 1.)

Sorry D4D I was a bit rude.

This summer and fall I am averaging right at 2 carp an hour with an average weight of 7 or 8 pounds. No real trophy fishing but certainly a lot of fun and at times almost constant action.

Some hours I sit, of course, but other hours have I have landed as high as 7 carp. I go out between 1 and three or four evenings a week, depending on what I feel like and the weather. That is split between crappies and carp.

10X would be a real tall order just to land the fish, but to rerig and get back out as well next to impossible. 20X is completely out of the question regardless of tackle unless one is using commercial nets.

Furthermore most of them I could reach with a 1' pole. The rest on an easy cast. That is just on a few spots along the river not even counting several local lakes with carp, the biggest I have heard of caught this year went over 30 pounds in one of those lakes. In all those other places in the lakes carp have shown up from time to time as bonus over line weight additions to our crappie fishing. We just haven't targeted them in the lakes yet.

I keep my kit including rods and bait right in the trunk of my Monte Carlo granting that I have to fold down one part of the back seat to accommodate my telescoping net which extends to about 12'. I need that at the River since I fish on walls along the river and barge channels. The bait never sours or goes bad either, since I make up my dough balls as needed at the water.

Sorry I don't need some European glorified cane pole nor the fancy rod rest or bite alarms. And where I grew up privvy had a somewhat different meaning, which was a big part of the amusement, after watching some of the videos. I will have to say that I didn't see the bag of lime that my father kept in the one I grew up with.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. It would be boring indeed if we were all the same.

Originally Posted by no1son

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. It would be boring indeed if we were all the same.

Agreed. Pole fishing is not for everybody, but I enjoy it. I also like UL and fly fishing. Variety is the spice of life!

Originally Posted by deathb4disco

Pole fishing is not for everybody, but I enjoy it.

... and I enjoyed it this weekend!

Because of my work schedule, I haven't been able to fish in awhile. I remedied that situation this weekend when I visited one of my favorite "carp on the pole" venues. I dropped my rig in at 12:09 and the float went under one minute later. (It was so fast, I had to check the clock!) The fish took off like a freight train and snagged me on a log. I broke it off, and set up a new rig. I dropped it in, and the float went under in about five seconds. This one tore off too, but I managed to keep him away from the log. When I landed him, I was amazed to see he was only about a pound. (They fight SO hard for their size.) I ended up catching nine others plus two channel cats. I lost three other carp.

I finished up the day casting my fly rod for bluegill.

Fun day!

Sounds like fun! We haven't been fishing much lately due to the weather (it was 31 degrees this morning) but the last time I went over to the pay lake by myself, I caught 2 carp around 1.5 - 2 pounds on crawlers. It's always easy to tell the difference between them and the cats. Carp give you serious headshakes even when they're small. WFN is starting a new carp program that I hope to catch.