We have taken cats and even a pike on the dough balls, but I did not mean that we took most of those fish on carp bait, only that we took a variety of types of fish in the same spots where we caught the carp. We normally carry a number of different rigs and if one bite is slow we will switch out.

Crappie fishing with the little plastics is another matter. That will often take carp, and a surprising number of different game fish, some of them well over line weight, very often all on the same bait, especially early in the year.