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    North Dakota Carp Fishing Group on Facebook! <><

    in North Central

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    On 4/30/2021 at 3:09 PM, (TN) Cannonball said:

    That is a long dissertation. Good luck with carp angling in North Dakota. I have posted on the FB page that I have never seen a carp eating fish eggs, even where there was a good population of carp. Getting ready to catch some carp on the fly here in SE TN. Tight lines!!

    In MA, we routinely see carp going after alewives' eggs... But then EVERYTHING (fish or bird) goes after alewives' eggs... it's just part of the ecosystem and the food chain. Nothing special to it.

  8. Stock Up On Corn

    in Public Announcements

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    2 hours ago, Ken said:

    Just heard on the news this morning the demand for corn is soaring and so are the prices.  The price is up 30%.  It is projected to go higher by summer.  Now might be a good time to buy an extra bag or two for the rest of the year.

    For the rest of the year? Ah! When I am on a fishing trip, I often use a bag per WEEK!

    North Dakota Carp Fishing Group on Facebook! <><

    in North Central

    Posted · Edited by Jerome

    Hey Paul,

    Next spring, I plan to revive the trip I had planned for spring 2019 and come to visit you. The extreme interpretation of no-chumming by local ND officials seems unique to this state, I don't think other no-chumming states would prevent you from using method balls or PVA bags. But then, I prefer to NOT ask overly precise questions in this respect when I travel around...

    Eye-Tied Hairs

    in Beginning Carping

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    6 hours ago, Ken said:

    Generally I use bread or corn, or a combination of both.  I use a running lead of whatever weight it takes to hold bottom, using the rig you have pictured.  In most cases not over 2 oz.  My hook links are longer than what you suggest, starting around 6" and up.  I use larger hooks too.  I like #4's, and use #2's when the situation calls for one.

    Tonight I will be tying 3" hook links at the kitchen table with #6's.

    Ken, Iain was referring to a fixed rig as opposed to a running rig. If you use a running rig, then the hooklink length may not matter as much. But in most situations, a fixed rig is more effective by making the fish hook itself as soon as the hooklink tightens. And then yes, a fairly short hooklink seems to definitely improve success rates, something I've seen clearly on underwater videos as well as in comparative tests. At least in venues without a lot of fishing pressure, but that's the case in 99.9% of the venues in North America. In the UK, it's another story...

    Let me suggest you give it a good try with fixed rigs. This might make quite a big difference.

    St Lawrence river

    in Ontario Meet, Greet & Questions

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    22 minutes ago, Carpsava said:

    around 2007 there was a massive outbreak of KHV, which is a carp specific virus.

    I didn't know that... Been 15 years, but still this undoubtedly may still have some consequences nowadays. Freaking viruses...

    I would also add that the St Lawrence ecosystem keeps changing. Many more gobies and many more fall fish (big ones!), just as an example. No clue about consequences (good or bad) on carp population, but it changes faster than one might think. 

    Eye-Tied Hairs

    in Beginning Carping

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    Oh, don't misread me, I totally agree with your first sentence. 

    Randomness definitely stays in full force though. But we can improve odds. Instead of 100 to 1, we can get to 10 to 1. Maybe. And that's a heck of an improvement. But let's not fool ourselves, there is very little determinism here.

    I was expressing deep skepticism about blowback rigs and correspond theories people make in their mind without any solid backing behind it (and then it becomes conventional wisdom through endless regurgitating, confirmation bias and so on). When seeing on video how powerfully carp spit out things, it is really hard to give any credibility to such theories any more... I think blowback rigs work fine when they act like regular rigs, when the hook link tightens up, simple as that. Correlation isn't causation...

    But yes, simple and effective rig mechanics can indeed go a long way to improve things.

    Eye-Tied Hairs

    in Beginning Carping

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    3 hours ago, (CT) Savayman said:

    The key to this idea was that when the carp ejected or spat out the bait (as it tries to do when it feels the hook) the bait 'pendulums' on the hair so that it ends up pulling against the hook eye and therefore pulling the hook point into the carps lip.

    To be honest, I don't believe much in this theory. When a carp spits out, it spits with such force that the entire rig go flying in a random manner. The idea that the bait moves and the hook stays straight behind seems ludicrous to me. Or at least this is I *think* I observed from underwater videos. 

    All those rig variations undoubtedly work at one point or another, in the midst of tens of suck & spit. But it is much more a random outcome than rig designers believe. Or at least, this is my perception...

    Eye-Tied Hairs

    in Beginning Carping

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    I don't have any hard fact, but call me a tad skeptical about the hair attached to the eye. Irrespective of the dynamics within the carp mouth (which NOBODY has seen for real, even with underwater videos), this seems to be begging for tangles. What many people don't realize is that carp forage the bottom with their pectoral fins, sending everything flying around under water, rigs included. If there is a non-negligible probability that my rig will get tangled in the process, then that's a bad rig. But then maybe with stiff enough material, this isn't the case?

    As to Warwyck's anchor idea, I applaud the creativity, but... again, nobody knows what's really happening in a carp mouth. Does this help? Or not? Or doesn't matter? I suspect this is very hard to determine. Those guys in the UK catching a couple of fish a day at most have absolutely no way to run any statistically significant test... What bugs me is that the 'anchor bar' adds one more thing which might tickle the carp mouth enough, so that they might spit it out faster than said...

    Horse sweet feed

    in Beginning Carping

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    Just use a spomb and you can chum with any type of light pellets. I sometimes mix maize and sweet feed (as is), then spomb... When I do that, I also put some sweet feed in my mix, but not much because it goes in the way of the method balls to hold together. 

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