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[PUMP KNOWS]

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I wanna see you fight a carp with your line and pen

[slicebranford]

Is fishing for carp in light rain or overcast effective? are they more active during rain or?

[Kit]

The more and more I read about carp the more I want to try it out lol.. I have a 10.5ft float rod with a 4000 series reel. with 20lb power pro with a 6ft fluro leader. Good enough for these ugly bastards? Haha.

[Carp Addiction]

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I wanna see you fight a carp with your line and pen

lol

[Carp Addiction]

Is fishing for carp in light rain or overcast effective? are they more active during rain or?

 

There are definite signs of when they are actively feeding, but in my experience, rain and overcast make little difference.

[Carp Addiction]

The more and more I read about carp the more I want to try it out lol.. I have a 10.5ft float rod with a 4000 series reel. with 20lb power pro with a 6ft fluro leader. Good enough for these ugly bastards? Haha.

 

Yes MAN!!!! Give it a go, you wont be disappointed. 

 

That setup is more than enough. Good to go!

[Kit]

I shall once the Grand goes down. 

 

So bait. Just cans of corn chummed into the water? What do I put on my hook? Corn? Or something different?

[hammercarp]

F**K YAH!!! Thats what I'm talking about! Bet he gave you a hell of a run though. Sometimes just one good scrap is enough   How long where you fishing for?

From 2:30 till 7:30. Pretty good fight but as the water warms they will fight harder. 

[hammercarp]

This is a great thread.  FYI Tons of carp are caught on centrepin outfits. The biggest carp I have personally seen ( I netted it) was caught on a centrepin outfit. Float fishing is deadly for carp. If you can land salmon on one you can land carp. 

Carp generally are not line shy here. Ask yourself how would a carp know what line is? As long as it's laying on the bottom they generally don't care. 

I believe that completely covering your hook with bait like canned corn is counter productive. Everyone that I know that fishes with bait on the hook always leaves the hook point exposed.

Please check this out if you would like http://www.ontariofi...h=1#entry211176 . 

Just one more technique for anglers to use.

[Kit]

Thanks for the link!.

[LICENSETOPIN]

Got into stacks of em earlier in the season, werent the target species but we'll take em.

 

[Carp Addiction]

This is a great thread.  FYI Tons of carp are caught on centrepin outfits. The biggest carp I have personally seen ( I netted it) was caught on a centrepin outfit. Float fishing is deadly for carp. If you can land salmon on one you can land carp. 

Carp generally are not line shy here. Ask yourself how would a carp know what line is? As long as it's laying on the bottom they generally don't care. 

I believe that completely covering your hook with bait like canned corn is counter productive. Everyone that I know that fishes with bait on the hook always leaves the hook point exposed.

Please check this out if you would like http://www.ontariofi...h=1#entry211176 . 

Just one more technique for anglers to use.

 

I completely agree that smothering your hook is counter productive... but the whole line sensitivity issue is debatable. -How would ANY fish know what line is then?

 

Companies like Korda for example, make it their livelihoods hiding hooklinks, rig and leader presentations from carp.  And they have extensive lines to not only keep your lines pinned to the bottom of the lakebeds, but also to remain completely camouflaged.

 

Check out a youtube user called David Edwards. I've spent countless hours over the years watching his videos of underwater Carp behavior, and because of his insightful work, I've never stopped trying to keep on improving my techniques and rigs. But most of all, keeping my rigs HIDDEN!

 

Carp arent as dull and dim-witted as people make them out to be, sure you may snag that one or two thats just so hungry he'd eat a horse, but in many respects....

 

Carp need to be hunted...

[Kit]

I suppose bow fishing for them is frowned upon? Lol.

[Shmogley]

alright pump im spooling a pen right now with 30lb test. get rdy for some action

[Carp Addiction]

I suppose bow fishing for them is frowned upon? Lol.

 

The beautiful thing about carp fishing is that - NO!!!

 

NOTHING is frowned upon. Experiment, experiment, experiment. If it works for you, it works for you! Plain and simple

 

I'm just hardcore about my carp though. I've probably spent more time researching them then actually fishing for them.

 

But when you dig into that world a bit more, you'll quickly realize that those setups you started with (even if they landed you countless fish) werent as effective as they could have been...

 

The rig possibilities are endless

[Kit]

I want to kinda get into doing it.. I have the gear to do it. Both bow and fishing. Of course Id fish for em first before using the bow on em. 

[Carp Addiction]

alright pump im spooling a pen right now with 30lb test. get rdy for some action

lol craziness

[Carp Addiction]

Kit, did you mean a bow and arrow? I thought you meant like a bow setup, for rainbows.   *facepalm*

 

Are you planning on eating them?

[PUMP KNOWS]

alright pump im spooling a pen right now with 30lb test. get rdy for some action

 

 

I wanna film this

[PUMP KNOWS]

I got 2 setups that I'll be using for carp.

 

centerpin setup

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8'6 ugly stick, medium, 25lb power pro braid with 6ft of 10lb pline fluro leader.

 

I just gotta figure out my presentation with the ugly stick