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Anybody else out there follow the Fish O Mania tournament in England? We watch it on World Fishing Network. The biggest common carp I've seen caught on the show is 12 lb., but they also have barbel, bream (not sunfish), skimmers and something else. I'm amazed at the chumming and specialty equipment. If you're not familiar with it, check it out at www.fishomania.net. If you have seen the show, what are the extra long rods called and what are they made of?
Yes, it is pretty amazing. I've never seen the show, but I'm very familiar with what you're talking about. I first heard about a lot of the Euro methods about twenty years ago. I got so interested in it, I actually went to the 1997 world championships in Hungary. I got to see all the tackle and the top anglers from all over Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffy the panfish slayer
They're just called "poles", and they're made of graphite. I know because I own two of them. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffy the panfish slayer
Those poles... How different are they really from long crappie poles?
The reason I ask is that we are using what is normally crappie equipment and having blast with it, although we use longer heavier rods (more like 7' or longer UL to light) for carp than we do for crappie (mostly 5' UL and that is where we started quite successfully for carp), and we are using a bit heavier line than our normal 4#. FWIW the carp we have been taking run from maybe 3 or 4 pounds to maybe 12 to 14, with most of them coming in the upper half of that spread. I also found a 9' steehead rod to be real useful.
That combo of equipment has worked real well for us all summer. FWIW we take quite frequent carp over line test on the little sticks and crappie plastics in the spring and occasionally later in the year. There just aint no scream like a screaming drag!
There is NO comparison. It's like night and day.Quote:
Originally Posted by no1son
My pole is 48' long. It has an internal elastic system that can handle everything up to double-figure carp.
Excuse me, is 48' a typo.Quote:
Originally Posted by deathb4disco
Not a typo.Quote:
Originally Posted by no1son
My pole is 14.5 meters long (approximately 48 feet.) In this video, the guy is using a 13 meter pole (around 42 feet.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_qwjYBJE4U
There are loads of pole fishing videos on Youtube.
More detail here from Steve Ringer, one of the best in the world:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC3zkLRb3v8
ROTFLMAO
A month's mortgage and more for a cane pole and a slingshot? Nothing more than a good old American canepole with European "style points"! I suspect that the fish would be found anywhere that got chummed, and you wouldn't need 48' to reach them then either. LOL
Wouldn't work so well in Minnesota anyway, since chumming for anything is illegal here.
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.) ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by no1son
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.
You took the words right out of my mouth. My lighter catfish rig is okay, but the super long carp rods get you right where you want without casting - the same reason I like my 12 foot Wally Marshall for dipping into weedbeds. Having had a channel cat hit that rod, I sure wouldn't want to tangle with a carp over a couple of pounds on it. May I ask what the multi=piece carp rods run pricewise?Quote:
Originally Posted by deathb4disco
A few hundred to a few thousand, depending on what you get. Shorter, 8-10 meter (26'-32') "margin" poles can be had for under $300, and they're built to handle fish in the 20# range.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffy the panfish slayer
Agreed. Pole fishing is not for everybody, but I enjoy it. I also like UL and fly fishing. Variety is the spice of life! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by no1son
... and I enjoyed it this weekend!Quote:
Originally Posted by deathb4disco
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.