Saturday, August 6, 2011

Truth to the tales


A huge grass carp has been stalking the shores of my local pond every time I have gone fishing. I think it is a game where he mocks me now. I sneak up on him, he fakes being interested and then waits until all is quiet and then bolts away with waves following him. Of course, I am in the zone and being super ninja stealthy, so I jump and look like an idiot.

However, I had a sweet victory yesterday. I fooled him for once. I landed a carp carrot right in front of his face and he couldn't resist. I set the hook and the fish was on for a split second. He shot away with intense speed and my line went slack. Needless to say, I was super confused. I pulled in the line and all I had on was my carp carrot and a single scale from the grass carp. A token to me and yet again the fish mocked me. Dang it.




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  2. Grass carp are tough. I foul hooked a common yesterday. This was the bravest common I have ever seen. I cast to him a few times and it would swim away but come back a couple minutes later. Never seen that behavior. Must not get that much pressure. Well my last cast I wrapped the leader around the fish and the hook went into it's left fin. I put pressure on the fish and literally rolled it almost to where it was upside down. The fish didn't even act that distressed until it was almost upside down. Then it was like hmmmm this isn't right. It took off for deeper water and I just watched my line take off I knew the hook would come out eventually. It only took about 5 seconds. But what a 5 seconds. The fish took 100ft of line in that time.

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  3. Hey Kev2380. What a 5 seconds! Nice.

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  4. I am so impressed with your great work and you have very good research about carp wishing how do you position our rods? Do you have the tips in the water? Do you set them both up to point straight ahead? Or do you separate them onto individual bank sticks based on the fact you have one swim to the left of them in the margins and one swim straight ahead at the island? . And carpbuddy.com is a site that provides lots of carp fishing news and carp fishing new and a lot of carp fishing information.

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