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[Carpalicious]

Tony and I and our lil buddy Justin went Down to Connorsville Indiana for the weekend to see if we could nail some hogs and boy did we! We set up camp Thursday night and by 3 am Friday morning Tony's alarms were SCREAMING... he landed a very nice 24.3 Common, followed by Justins 19lb'r.. just when I was starting to wonder when my turn would be I got a slight aand very pitiful MEEP out of my alarms. I friggin knew it was a kitty and it was....Bout an hour later while I was sleeping another pitiful sound comes from my alarms...this one even more pitiful than the first, should I get up? Hell no, let that thing stay till I am awake. Ahhh....730 am and the poor little kitty on my line is begging for attention so I reel it in and release it after letting it know in no uncertain terms that boilies are for carp ONLY.
During the dayFriday it was very slow....each of us caught one a peice this biggest of the batch being a 21.4 common landed by me.
 IMAG0420 (361x640).jpg   175.33K   6 downloadsTony had to take off that afternoon and wouldnt be back till the next day, GREAT! More fish for me!!!!
So now It is just Justin and I and it appears that my rein of monster carp terror is over as Justin is steadily reeling in fish and up until this point his biggest was one just above 20lbs....(notice I say up until this point)......
Saturday at 5 am I get that dreaded pitiful MEEP coming from my alarm. I turned over in my sleep and thought you have GOT to be kidding, another one?? As usual I ignore it. Justin comes and asks me if I wanted him to reel it in ( propbablly was annoying the hell out of him) and I said yes. I roll out of bed and walk up beside him as he picks up my rod and instead of reeling in the offeding catfish he turns and says to me, now that you are up reel in your own cat. So I turn off the baitrunner and set the hook and OMG....NOT a KITTY. After a lil battle and lots of surprise I bring in a sweet 29.8. Thank Goodness I thought I had lost my touch!  147.JPG   179.88K   1 downloads
Not to be outdone though bout an hour later Justins alarm is full blast like I have never heard, he is hurdling objects and stumps in single bounds, snatches up the pole, sets the hook and battles the beast of his lifetime....he has been fishing 20 plus years and FINALLY he has landed not only his PB but one hell of a whopper...31.11  IMAG0433 (361x640).jpg   177.4K   0 downloads
 IMAG0438 (361x640).jpg   164.12K   0 downloadsThru out the day Justin brings in several more, nothing over 20 lbs but nothing under 15 either.
Tony shows back up for the final night (this figures, Justin and I are sunburned and have been under attack by mosquitos for 2 days, have chummed and baited every inch of this swim, the fish are there and feeding like crazy) Early in the Am Tony Lands a lovely 26.10  186 (640x480).jpg   129.22K   0 downloads a new PB for him  187 (640x480).jpg   136.87K   0 downloads and he hadn't even come down from that adrenaline rush before....DRUMROLL please.....BEEEEEEEEP. Fightin the fish, getting it out of snags, finally getting it up to the net and WHAT IN THE HECK??? a KOI!!!!  193 (640x480).jpg   232.18K   0 downloads  194 (480x640).jpg   231.1K   0 downloads  196 (640x480).jpg   250.56K   0 downloads

[dopefish905]

Great session, awsome looking koi, grats on the PB ..quite the trip! WTG

[HOPPY4]

Now that was a Fantastic Outing! Congrats to you, Tony and Justin on the capture of a New PBs! Those were impressive captures by each of you. That Koi is something else. CONGRATS all around!

HOPPY4

[Neil Stern]

nice story....great read.......pretty sure it's not a KOI Tony. looks like an orange-White-Black Common,,,,you Chit !!!!

Congratulations on all the captures,,,,,,I had a great week end as well,,,,,,,,got my lines out and slept UNDISTURBED well except for the yell Carl let out so I could help him net his fish,,,,,,

[SoCalCarper]

Great story great captures keep up the good work. Maybe next year you guys can come again and slay some fish here also

[Jerome]

That is an amazing session! I love the enthusiasm and... the great catches! Pure fishing pleasure, very cool.

[pickerd]

Wow, quite a haul with some terrific fish and PB's. Great session.

[robm1093]

Nice fish!!

[RebelCarp]

awesome trip! nice job on the new pbs! looks like you have a great swim!

[baitbucket]

That was a nice trip PB's and numbers, could use some action like that out this way been a really slow spring here.