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    Some direction on rig applications

    in Beginning Carping

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    I would suggest that you use some inline gripper leads(they come in 2-3 oz sizes). You can have a bolt rig setup with these leads if the swivel attached to your hair rig will slip snuggly into the bottom of your gripper lead. These leads should hold in place better than the method feeders in current. Use some oats packbait, pack it around your gripper lead and press your hook and the bait on your hair rig into the oats.

    If 3oz leads won't hold the bottom where you want to fish, you may need some larger no-roll catfish type inline leads. You will probably have more luck fishing in areas where the 3 oz weight will hold the bottom.

    Hello !

    in Carp Locally & Fishing Reports

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    I have read some of your adventures on another forum, and I know that you will fit into our group very well. I look forward to fishing with you, and hope I get to see some of those 4 foot carp :rolleyes: Thanks for joining us! Will be glad to help with any of your questions.

    looking for places to fish in nashville

    in Carp Locally & Fishing Reports

    Posted · Edited by Spoon

    Sorry, I live about 170 miles away from Nashville and I don't know where to catch carp there. I am sure there are lots of carp in Nashville area waters but bigger carp are much harder to find than they are in Wisconsin especially in the summer. There is a carp flyfisherman in Nashville who will guide anglers for a fee. This is his website: http://sites.google.com/site/carpwhisperer

    If you prefer to fish on your own I am sure some of the people in Nashville can direct you to parks or areas on the Cumberland River or Percy Priest Lake to catch carp.

    river eddy

    in Beginning Carping

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    I catch carp in eddies where the water is flowing slower than the main current. Eddy water can flow in a large circle or elipse and most of the actual eddy is flowing water. The carp can feed on things washing into the eddy and not have to fight the heavier current in the river.

    Blue catfish ate my carp bait

    in Other Species Stories

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    I fished one of my favorite fall areas recently, but the carp were not biting. I caught some small fiddler size cats on maize before sunset but I felt there were some carp in the area because of a few large splashes. About sunset, I tried a peanut butter bait. This bait produced a few teen size carp for me in the summer. The peanut butter bait got a run after about 10 minutes in the water. This was a catfish of about 5 lbs, and it didn't put up much of a fight. I heard another big splash so I decided to cast the peanut butter bait again. Twenty minutes later, the pb bait took off again. I lifted into a nice fish this time. He stripped some drag and after I turned him he ran toward the bank. He made a wallowing type splash near the bank but I could not see him now that it was getting dark. He slowly pulled away from the bank and tried to root into the rocks on the bottom. After a couple of minutes of steady pressure I got him to the surface and netted him. He was a one eyed blue catfish of 20lbs with a lenght of 34.5 inches.post-1716-1225681396.jpgpost-1716-1225681483.jpg

    This is my catfish PB and because it is 34 inches long I am going to get a TARP certificate on it from the state. TARP is the Tennessee Angler Recognition Program. Anglers sent in photos of their trophy size fish(along with $5) and the state sents the anglers certificates for their trophy fish.

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