Carp

[WillD]

How bout it anybody target these beasts?

I never gave them a thought until I foul hooked one of them and the thing damn near pulled me into Hempstead lake. I've gone after them a couple times with some corn and I think this week I'll give it a try once again.

 

[buddha162]

I went through a carp phase...hair rigs, landing mats, telescopic nets, the whole 9yds. Eventually I developed such an affinity with carp that I couldn't see them in distress anymore (I'm starting to get that way with tog too...other species I slit their gills and bleed em out w/o a thought, strange!)

Anyway, when they're dumb --- which in my experience is most of the time --- they'll eat anything. But when they're smart...I've seen a herd of 20lbers vacuum up a whole can's worth of sweet corn chum and ignore my single kernel on a long hair rig...tied with 2lb flourocarbon to a #6 matte gray Fox hook.

 

[flounderjoe]

When you hook into one you soon realize why they are such a popular almost sport fish on the other side of the atlantic.and trust me they can be every bit as tricky and moody as the biggest full moon bulldog blackfish

 

[Flukerr]

Enjoy those drag screaming mud-minnows....On top-water to boot ! I have many tactics to catch these fish over the years. Form secret baits,hair rigs,floaters,home-made boilies..They can be a real challenge at times. My fav. is watching big ol'e rubber-lips suck a bait off the surface. 8lb. test screaming off the reel...Good times ! We have giants on the Island...some true

 

[flounderjoe]

Though few and far between they are explosive on a fly rod.And yes fluker floating foam bread flies .

 

[WillD]

What is a hair rig? I just googled it real quick it looks like a bait on a string so it's not actually on a hook? Not sure how that works.