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Although you are "missed", seems like retirement has allowed you to actually go carp fishing!!!.....great fish, CONGRATS!!
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The past several weeks, my son Willy and I have had some "epic" battles with some koi. First I "discovered" a school of 4 koi in a very small "local" trout stream......1 small 12-incher, an orange 5 pounder and 2 larger, 12-15 pound sized white and black koi, living all together in one of the deepest pools in the creek. After I found them, I chummed them with corn, and managed to get the 5 pounder feeding, and soon caught him. The bigger ones however, were NOT interested in feeding. So I went back and chummed them (without fishing for them) a couple of times to get their confidence up in feeding on corn.
In the meantime, George (GC) gave me a HOT TIP about two koi that he had seen, and had gotten them to feed. Last weekend, Willy and I tried for them. I went with my heavier noodle rod, and 6 pound flourocarbon, as the koi was pretty big. After about an hour, I hooked the larger of the two (my guess at least 18+ pounds). The koi immediately ran downstream and took me into a log jam. I jumped into the water, and freed the snag, but again the koi wrapped me in the overhanging trees. I swam to the trees and freed that snag, only to have the fish swim across the creek (about 200 + feet across) and snag me again. I handed the rod to Willy and informed him I was going to swim across the crek and try to fre the snagged koi......at that point, he got nervous and asked me" what about bull sharks!!"......well, since I live at least 90 miles from the ocean, and there are at least 5 dams downstream of us, I let him know I didnt fear any bull sharks!!.......So I made the swim across the creek, only to find that the koi had finally broken the line after a 20 minute snag-fest.......Thanks George!!....Maybe someday that koi will get caught?!
Yesterday, Willy and I went back to the first creek to fish for the remaining 3 koi. After chumming with sweetcorn for about an hour, the two larger koi began feeding pretty freely. So we targeted the more colorful of the two koi, and hooked him. Using 4 pd flouro and a light noodle rod, the fish was finally landed after a good long fight.......The koi is white with grey pattern over the top half of its body, with black blotches and an orange stripe along the bottom of both sides of its body......pretty unique.....It weighted just over 12 pounds, and was definitely skinny for his length. It was happily eating koi pellets from the surface of my pond this morning, fattening up!!
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what's next? A koi like the one in wg666666's avatar?
I hope so!!!.......I think that mirror is equally as cool as that koi!
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Captain, that has to be one of the nicest looking mirrors I have EVER seen!!......big congrats!!
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live lining herring is the tactic around these ways...these are sea run stripers, not landlocked.
Matt, Kingston is on the Hudson river...tidal section..
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Jerome, beautiful fish!!!!!!!! You deserve it!!.....loved the fully scaled one also!
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Did you try to give him a "salt bath"??? Its great to stimulate slime coats and does wondes on wounds......good luck, I know what its like to lose a koi......
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ALready said it, but GREAT KOI!!!....they are both really nice and are both Kohaku (orange and white), a classic Japanese variety. Vinny's even has a classic pattern. May be considerably more expensive then just a "domestic" koi......regardless, they are really cool looking. I especially like Scotts fish cause it has a LONG mouth/nose and held its fin up for the picture.
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NICE KOI!!!!! and the big fat common is great too!!!
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i wish we had commons and mirrors but its all koi unfortunately
koi unfortunately!!???.......come on, they are beautiful!!.....Nice fish as usual Simon!
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thanks mate... i thought your article in the NACA was quite interesting having never seen or caught a common how much more wary are koi?
Thanks Simon! I havent actually seen the article yet, as I havent recieved my NACA yet.......Hope it looked OK! Almost all koi that I have found are EXTREMELY wary, probably due to the clear water they live in and the amount of predators (fishermen, birds, etc) that chase them because of their bright colors......the commons/mirrors that are "native" here in Southeastern Pennsylvania are not nearly as wary or as line shy and probably arent pursued nearly as much by the "predators" because they have much better camo. I think my article went into a little of that.......
The koi in your area, because they are the only "carp" there, may be equally wary, but since you dont have any other "carp" to compare too, maybe you just cant tell??!!
Keep catchin em!
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Beautiful fish Simon!!........been in a koi slump myself lately as the local "trout" streams are closed until trout season opens.......soon.....
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Coolest fish out there.
Scott is that??
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OMG those fish are beautiful!!.....and the scenery aint bad either!!.....congrats!!!
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Eric, I sent you a PM.....Bill
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Nice fish!!......weather its a rainbow or true steelhead, I bet it kicked your butt fighting!
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Nice steelies!!....also nice to see another steelhead fisherman who LIKES to catch CARP also!...I've been dying to get to Erie for some steel, but its been frozen where I like to fish...do you use your noodle rods for carp fishing?
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Those are some nice fish WG! You are the same infamous shad fishing WG that posts on Woo's site, right? I'm not an 'official' carp fisherman yet (only ever caught a few on accident), but with the pathetic shad runs on the Big D lately, I plan on spending some time this spring a little closer to home chasing some carp instead. It looks like too much fun.
ifishalot, yes, WG is me!.....sent some emails back and forth with Woo today, as a metter of fact!....glad to see you on the boards......what do you post under on the Woo site??
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nice snow scene!
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Here's the fatty
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Yesterday, when the sun came out and it finally reached a balmy 32 degrees, I decided to take my 10 year old out for some local carp fishing. I have recently located a large school of carp in my local "trout stream" which includes 2 koi and at least 10 mirror carp.
We got to the spot around 1 PM, and chummed with sweetcorn. Within minutes, the school of carp was feeding, but in "slow-motion" due to the cold water. Willy hooked 2 and landed them both in about 30 minutes, after which the school moved away, and discontinued feeding. The first mirror was about 12+ pounds and the second one was a real fatty, probably like 14+ pounds. Not bad for about 45 minutes of fishing when they are "not supposed to be hitting"!
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Nice fish as usual Simon!!....how big was that one??
Also, are you "sight-fishing" for them??....I bet it would be easy to spot them feeding....
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Bill, shad in my local river??
Scott, Shad in the Connecticut R in Holyoke, thats the only place up your way I know of.....I dont know how far that is from the koi pond, but I will be a lot closer then Philly!
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Bill the Koi Master, if you could actually come and catch it, this would be nice... You know, overall, we have quite a few local ponds where nice kois are roaming around, I'm sure you could spend a couple of weeks in MA and have a lot of fun...
Thanks for the invite Jerome!....I may be up that way doing some shad fishing in May. I will let you know if I can head up your way to try and help rescue the koi. If we were successful it would have to stay nearby, too far of a ride to bring home to Pennsylvania safely!
I think the idea of a "relocation" Fish-in would be pretty fun there!
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Scott NICE FISH!!...any idea why the mirrors down my way rarely reach 20 pounds??.....genetics I guess?? My mirrors are more Israeli-type, but your fish look like they are more "common carp" shaped........