Know your Carp !!!

[stotty]

No I don’t know of Pike Master Lures but they are probable a sub company to one of the bigger ones. But yes we do like our pike fishing when winter comes a lot of Carp anglers switch to pike I love pike fishing but the Carp fishing is No. 1 for me. The other thing we use a lot of dead baits for our pike fishing as lure fishing is not allowed on a lot of lakes with fear of hooking a carp in the side. My mate was in France last year Lure fishing for Zander in the winter he hooked a 41lb carp in the tail. That rod has never been the same .

I know you would have shot it

 

[fishrmann2]

Pike Master's is there own company. They are in the netherlands... thats probably why you haven't heard of them...

Ya zander seem like a neat fish! Just like our walleye! There is a pretty good population of Zander in one of the Dakotas... another great idea by the DNR! lol

Do you guys keep scales as trophies on carp... or what do you do with them? Is there mounting over there?

When people... cough.. cough.. shoot buffalo.. cough.. here, they dig the "rock" outta their head for a trophy... I have seen some the size of golf balls! lol

 

[stotty]

The only thing English people mount are the partners . Seriously people do stuff fish but the bulk of anglers in the UK take a Trophy shots with a camera I have albums of fish at home, we like to put them back for some one ells to enjoy the fight. Some thing like this.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46260&page=2

As for shooting I have no problem with it I do it my self. I have a gun or 2

 

[DanDanUK]

Don't forget about these bad boys!

Buffalo

WHY ?

did you eat that fish ? there's got to be a reason you killed that good animal !

also you mentioned in another thread that DNR allow you to keep the population down, well over here in the UK we have managed to control them with out shooting bolts through them by building fisherys which hold all carp found in rivers and yes they still reprodeuce in the fisherys and how we control that is by adding some natural predators such as Pike, Zander, perch and catfish they keep the population down not blokes with bows.