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Hi David,
Welcome to CAG.
Joining is easy. Just go to the top of this page, and in the solid blue line, click on the second item in from the left.
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Cathy,
Welcome to CAG.
There isn't any sense getting all hot and bothered over this old thread - it's ten years old!
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I got this recipe off YouTube a couple years ago and like it. When I have the room, I use my 11 ft rods and can cast this stuff 50 - 60 yards. Fishing the rivers, I generally don't need to cast farther than that. Usually, not even that far.
Take an 8 oz can of Panko bread crumbs and mix in 2 packs of jello. I've tried different flavors and like strawberry the best. Take a can of whole kernel corn and a can of white hominy and drain. Add to the bowl and start squeezing everything together with your hand. Keep squeezing until you get the consistency you want. If you add any extra liquid, it will be too wet.
I've been just packing this around a 2 or 3 oz egg sinker-nothing else to hold it- and it stays on just fine.
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It's a sad situation. but it might not be a good idea to give away specific locations of good carp areas on the open forum. I know bow fishermen have taken the time to monitor our site looking for leads for their "fishing" and am sure they still do. For specific areas, sending a PM would be a better option.
Around this area, there are a good (bad) number of bow fishermen on the water killing carp, and unless I'm talking to an angler, I keep my mouth shut.
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Congrats on your carp: He saved you from a dreaded blank. It's always great to get on a new water and catch. Even though you lost those 5, you hooked them fair and square, and they were lost due to circumstances beyond your control. The eel grass is starting float down the shorelines here on the Hudson also, making it tough to keep the lines free and clear.
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Welcome to CAG.
Here is a video that might help out with hair rigs.
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6 hours ago, CarpingWashington said:
Any carp fisherman (with a rod), still active on this thread?
We still have people joining CAG, but there are fewer and fewer people posting on this site.
Good luck in your search.
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8 hours ago, (TN) Cannonball said:
I have molds for no-roll sinkers, 1, 2, 3 oz., from Barlow's Tackle. I pick up lead bullets at my gun club. Wheel weights are good but take a bit of cleaning and fluxing.
Thanks for the tip on the no-roll sinker molds. I just tried ordering one, but the site wouldn't allow me to add the mold to the cart. I'll call them Monday.
I've experimented using bank sinkers for inline sliding sinkers. You can make a sinker 2 oz or 3 oz easily by laying 1 oz bank sinkers top to bottom on each other and rubber banding them together. Then I take a piece of line, tie a swivel on it, and tie the other end to one of the sinkers. Just thread the main line through the swivel and you've got a practically friction free sliding sinker. This works well in soft, mucky bottoms where you don't want the sinker dragging your bait into the sediment. Simply adjust the length of the swivel link to the depth of the muck. A 5" or 6" link should be long enough for the sinker to go down in the sediment as much as it wants, and still have the swivel above the muck, giving you a free flowing main line.
On normal bottoms, the shorter you make the swivel link, the more sensitive bites will be detected. One drawback with this rig is the sinker will invariably get tangled in the net when netting a fish. You might as well just bite the bullet and cut the sinker off and retie, rather than risking having a stroke trying to untangle everything with a carp in the net waiting to be unhooked.
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The big carp has a funky looking mouth. Maybe from dining on too many zebra mussels.
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1 hour ago, (MO) MOCarper said:
It's cause the chinese factories shut down- it'll pick up. I can't find lead sinkers.......haven't checked Big Carp Tackle in awhile................ MO
One of the best investments I ever made was sinker molds. I've got one for different size bank sinkers, 1/4 oz slip sinkers, and when they started proving too small I bought and egg sinker mold that goes from 1/8 oz up to 3 oz., I also make balls for my muzzleloaders. The way I can loose rigs in the rivers, the sinker molds have saved me a ton of money. And I've always enjoyed making my own "stuff". If you fish rivers, the egg sinkers can be flattened so they won't roll so bad by putting a piece of coat hanger wire through the hole and flattening the sinker with a hammer. Then you have to put the wire in a vise and hammer the now flattened sinker off the wire. This is labor intensive, but it works. You can tale a piece of plate, drill a hole in one end large enough to get the wire through, put the plate on the wire between the vice and the sinker, and hammer the sinker off by hitting the plate. Have also use a small pair of pliers, but it's worth while making the plate. If anyone has an easier way of flattening the egg sinkers, I'd like to hear it.
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Tyler,
Try contacting 'Edward Sheffield' (CAG member) about the St Lawrence.
Good luck up there. There is some great fishing to be had on the St Lawrence. Keep us posted.
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Is anyone else noticing a fishing line shortage in the stores where you are? Like, there is none? I've gone to Walmarts, Dicks Sporting Goods, and the local bait/tackle shop and there is no mono or braid. Other than a few spools of that cheap Chinese white mono where you get 300 yards of line for $3.00. This has been going on for awhile here. Guess I'm going to have to bite bullet and order on-line and pay the shipping and handling.
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I checked out this thread and found the video "Ol captain gets stumped" amusing. Here is a guy that's serious about landing his fish!
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Hi David,
Welcome to CAG.
A suggestion is, when going through the archives for information, it is always a good idea to check the date that archive was posted on before answering/following up on it. For example, this thread was posted in 2010, and probably some of the guys who were on it aren't even around here anymore. That's not saying someone won't come through with an answer for you, but chances are they won't.
Tight lines
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I am so sorry to hear of Neil's passing.
Carlymoomoo - That is a wonderful eulogy, and no doubt one of the most sincere & heartfelt Neil will have. Great picture story also.
I never met Neil in person, but felt I knew him from his frequent contributions on the forum and from our snail mail correspondence. I still have envelopes and manila envelopes with his return address stickers full of 'carp stuff' that he sent me. He always took the time to answer.
Neil did a lot for CAG and will be missed.
R.I.P. Neil
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On 7/25/2020 at 8:09 AM, (TN) Cannonball said:
There it is- 26 lb. 9 oz. Caught lots more since then but nowhere near that size.
26-9: That's a respectable fish!
A lot of times you have to be careful what you wish for, but we could use some of those guys up here (I think..............)
Anyway, Cannonball, now I've seen a buff, lol.
Aside: The same thing happened here in NY this year. A bowfisher killed a 53lb 10oz carp in Chautauqua Lake. The state record is 50lb 6oz. The bow-killed carp isn't eligible for the record because it wasn't caught angling.
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On 7/22/2020 at 8:17 PM, (TN) Cannonball said:
Are the fish hitting light? I'm thinking it might be buffs mouthing the bait and dropping it.
FB members, let's help solve this dilemma.
The buffs haven't made it this far north yet. I'm still waiting to see my first one.
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I don't think too much of circle hooks for carp fishing either.
I have used a lot of Eagle Claw hooks, which I know don't come highly recommended here, as well as different models of the Gammy hooks. This year I have been using two models of Wacker's carp hooks (anti snag and anti eject) in different sizes. I haven't really used them enough yet to pass any judgments on them. They don't have long shanks.
I just picked up a pack of Eagle Claw TroKar 'glow bug' hooks which are wide gap, short shank & surgically sharpened. I tied up a couple hairs with them but haven't had them in the water yet. Hopefully tomorrow. My thinking is the short shank may be picked up easier, and will not need as many wraps to get the hair up where it needs to be for the 45 degree angle.
As far as pictures go, it's tough to post mine because I'm still dropping mine off at Walmarts to have them developed.
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I think I've tried about everything that's out there. Especially this year with more time than ever to fish. I've been going through hair rigs vs bait on the hook, long hairs-short hairs, long hook links vs short hook links, running rigs, free lining, bolt rigs, different size (needle sharp) hooks, etc. This isn't a new problem, rather a chronic problem of a life time.
Another very frustrating one that is even more prevalent is the number of missed fish on the take. I get many short hits that take a few inches of line, and stop. These, of course, may not be all carp though. I hope not.
You are absolutely right about the bankside vocabulary. Which can be somewhat embarrassing on occasion. Have you ever been fishing all by yourself and lost it, turning the air into a dark blue stench, then turn around and realize you aren't all alone?
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Sent PM
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If you would suggest one thing to do to reduce hook pulls, what would it be?
Or, another way, in your opinion, what contributes to the most hook pulls?
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I have also been remiss by not posting to this thread sooner. But being a life long, and practiced procrastinator I suppose posting just a week late is tolerable.
I've been getting more than my fair share of fishing in this year, but haven't been setting the world on fire with a lot of fish or many big fish. The first week in April started off with a bang with that one big one and several more in the high teens. I must have patted myself on the back too hard because the blanks then started rolling in, session after session, and nothing was working. I pig headedly stayed on the Mohawk knowing it would suddenly pick up and I would start hauling, as I've always done there in April and May in the past. That never happened. I did a tremendous amount of experimenting with different baits and rigs, but to no avail. Finally the water chestnuts came up and closed off much of the "good" shoreline, and I moved to the Hudson. And started catching a few fish.
So far I've caught 47 carp, with five twenties mixed in with mostly all doubles. But with the hours I've put in, that's not as good as it sounds. The canal corporation has had both rivers down to a trickle all spring, with the locks closed until the past week. Perhaps that had something to do with the scarcity of fish. Scarcity of carp I should say. There has been no scarcity of catfish on the Hudson. It seems those pests know when and where I'm coming and school in front of me by the dozen. I've been fattening them up with chum and tubs of pack bait all season.
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You absolutely did the right thing releasing that fish!
And as far as I'm concerned, and I'm sure everyone else on here, you are the owner of the RI state record.
Congratulations.
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Cannonball is right on a couple of counts here. "People don't deliberately fish for carp" is right, that is, until they watch you land one. Then they'll nonchalantly come on over and ask you what you're using for bait. And say something like "Jeese, that is big and it really put up a fight"! I think it's fun to set up close enough to other fishermen not to encroach on their space (especially if there are kids fishing) and hopefully catch a carp. You can bet every eye will be on you by the time it's time to net the fish. That's the way to start a trend.
I find most people will politely listen about carp fishing, but will never try it on their own. They inherently "hate" carp from years of listening to sportsmen. But let them watch you catch one and they are all ears on how they can do it themselves. <:///><