Monster grass carp spotted! What to use?

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Well guys, I havnt seen him since i hooked him. And I've gone pretty much every day. Thrown mulberry out several times, but nothing. I usually don't quit, but this is an exception. I give up. Just too hard, too much food in the lake...sigh. Oh well, I have a new goal. The park with tons of grass carp suposivly has a 60 ponder in there, seen last time th electroshocked it. I'm heading down there tonight, just before dark. Let's see if I can't snag a few, wish me luck. I'll have pics!
 
Bad conditions last night.
Couldn't get the bait into the water without it being blown off the hook due to the harsh winds. Then a thunderstorm came. Oh well, I'll try again tonight, wish me luck!
 
Destroyer551;3387760; said:
Bad conditions last night.
Couldn't get the bait into the water without it being blown off the hook due to the harsh winds. Then a thunderstorm came. Oh well, I'll try again tonight, wish me luck!


I give you credit for fishing in this heat . I would think night would be worse time AS they sem to prefer early am . At least you hooked him. I never even had a nibble nothing ever .

We are leaving for a week tommorow for UK for vacation and wouldnt it be funny if I caught one there lol.

I wont get to fish but would think better chance there than Florida as these Florida grass carp will NOT bite .
 
stotty;3372931; said:
caught a small one last week on a worm nothing more than that

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Nice looking fish. I like carp find them kind of noble looking . We are actually heading there tommorrow and though would love to try my hand at finally catching carp. My wife would freak .

The Royal palace and other countless land marks instead of fishing lol.
 
Schneider;3373424; said:
Grass carp and bighead carp have invaded some of the native waters in my area. The newspaper stories all say they are large planktonic filter feeders. I understand that they probably eat other fare at times. From video footage I've seen of these fish, I would say the best way to catch them would be to drive a boat through a concentration of them. Just make sure to wear a helmet. They get all worked up and jump hundreds at a time. Some big ones might land in your boat.
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I dont know if that would work here have never seen them jump and they seem to act different than carp from other states .
 
Louie;3389177; said:
Nice looking fish. I like carp find them kind of noble looking . We are actually heading there tommorrow and though would love to try my hand at finally catching carp. My wife would freak .

The Royal palace and other countless land marks instead of fishing lol.


cool best of luck and let me know if you get one or two :popcorn:
 
dont give up dude. if you got him to bite once, he'll bite again. just keep trying. how big is this pond by the way? just wondering.

i caught a 3.5' grass carp that weighed ~35lbs about 6 years ago. i caught it on a bread ball and i dont think it even realized it was hooked cuz it didnt fight at all.
 
Captain Ahab? Lol....
Anyways, I'm back. Took a little break from fishing.
And saddly, I havn't seen this monster for quite a long time. I visit the pond once a week. But nothing. I think mostly cause a lot of this pond's algae and grass has died out, due to spraying. And the pond has gone up several feet from the rain. I mostly go to a manmade lake near a park that has brillieant fishing. Lots of bass, the occassional gar, huge bullhead. Supposivley lake trout, and even crappie! And crappie would be a treat for me.
 
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