ewurm;594914; said:
How did you catch the carp, what bait? I never have had much success here in the states with carp.
Its a designer baits and they are called boilies They are aHard-boiled baits witch were originally introduced to carp angling in the late Seventies in the UK with the sole purpose of keeping nuisance fish from eating away the bait being presented to the Carp
though there were a few forward thinking anglers back in the sixties that began to experiment with different paste type baits and boiling the ingredients to make them hard.
The baits or boilies as they were later to become known were very simple baits originally made from eggs and whole-wheat flour or semolina with some flavouring thrown in for good measure. These baits were rolled into various size balls and then boiled for a while to form a tough skin on the outside of the bait. Carp anglers started catching larger fish on these baits and the word soon began to spread throughout the carp angling community.
Hear are some links
http://www.carp.net/carp.htm
http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/Carp-Fishing-Articles/make_boilies.html
http://www.geocities.com/diabolo38/bouille.html
We then use special bags made of PVA (Polyvinyl acetates) (water soluble bags) this is One of my favourite methods of carp fishing. It can be an absolutely deadly method of catching carp, because it presents a bed of pellets or whatever particle you choose to use, with your hook bait in amongst them, being the only one of its type and size. As it can be cast a long distance when assembles correctly, this presentation is something a carp is not used to in that location, normally only coming across whole single or beds of boilies. (Please see picture courtesy of Dan)
Good link
http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/authors/martin01.htm
Sorry to have bored the
of you all but this carp fishing really is taken seriously here in the UK. If any one ells wants an over complicated answer to a simple question to do with carp fishing please get back to me.
Please any Americans intrested in carp fishing Please Please take a look at this:
http://www.americancarpsociety.com:8080/ACS/home.jsp