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[carpangler002]

Hey guys my names Andy and I'm new here on carp anglers group, I'm from Chicago and
I've been fishing carp for about 5 years mostly on the ship & sanitary canal in willow springs
and the DES plaines river and recently there have been reports of large grass carp at a lake called sag quarries..I went over there a few days ago to take a look and it's a really really weedy lake alot of vegetation and I want to try my luck to catch one, I'm asking anyone for some advice and some tips on what boilies to use, any special type of rig..etc
let me know

Andy

[Santiago]

Try chumming with bread and freeline a floating piece

[carpangler002]

I was thinking of chumming cherry tomatoes for a few days to get them feeding were I want and then putting a couple cherry tomatoes in a pva bag with a pineapple boilie, see if that will work

[phonebush]

002,

Sure, they like the little tomatos. Problem is, if the whole lake is real weedy then it is real shallow. Have you had a chance to fish with any of our many Chicago CAG members? Maybe one of them knows the lake well enough to give you a little watercraft information. They fish the other venues you mention frequently. Really really big grass carp and real weedy don't go together.

Phone

[Noknot]

Hair riged cooked Maize, they love it and it's instant!

[carpangler002]

well there is 2 separate lakes east and west side and alot of reports of large grass carp are on the east end and that side does not have that many weeds just mostly in the middle of the lake..

If there is any other help info let me know
Again thanks guys for the help

Andy

[carpangler002]

Just went out today after work and chummed out 3 boxes of grape tomatoes and 3 cans of corn, hopefully that wasn't to much...

[CHIBIGTEE]

Hey Andy, Tracy here. I'll give it a spin. We've had matches on the Illinois River that has lots of them. The problem is they're so fragile. I've heard of cherry tomatoes, romaine lattuce soaked in honey, etc. Now whether this stuff ACTUALLY works is another story. I just haven't tried it yet. Some of the Polish carpers are into grassies big time. I know they go off to Wisconsin for them. Let me know what you think. later

Edited by CHIBIGTEE, 15 June 2011 - 08:01 AM.

[CHIBIGTEE]

I'm free friday and sunday. Graduation party saturday. If it's Sag Quarries your speaking of, I haven't been there in awhile. later

[carpangler002]

Hey Tracy how's it going...yea I've been to the Illinois river before and I seen them getting pulled out from there, I usually don't fish lakes mostly the des plaines river and the ship & sanitary canal but there is a local bait shop by my house in bridgeview called JJs Bait and Tackle and there are alot of guys that go there to get their bait for crappie and bluegill and when sag quarries had there trout opener this year there have been alot of sightings of very large grass carp but yet you have to take that with a grain of salt, but anyway a guy was fishing for tout that day and he hooked into a 25lb grass carp and he actually brought it in to the bait shop to weight but because he dident have a scale..they sId it was bleeding very bad and after words it died I don't know why they dident release it so sad...but yea I'm gonna go after work today and chum out more bait and Friday after wrk I'm gonna give it a try see what happeneds

Take Care...Andy