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    Fishing above a dam

    in Beginning Carping

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    Another thing you may want to try is this. If you don't have a marker float and are chumming heavy. Keep in mind the depths are deeper so you probably won't see a roll from the fish. Keep an eye out for bubbles. You can literally watch a school move in by the bubbles. I have watched the bubbles move up and down the bank and settle on my offerings. Another little tip I found out that I discovered by accident is this. If you use a method mix try something in it that floats. What happens is you get carp feeding heavy on the bottom and a few come to the top for the floating baits. Its a good sign when the fish move into the area and will let you know what pattern they may be on as far as what time of day they are more likely to travel into your spot.

    Fishing above a dam

    in Beginning Carping

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    Yes I do. Hows the depth change? I fish a spot that goes from 10-40ft and it keep dropping to 91 feet. I try to fish right where the drop starts around 30ft deep. You may want to look for some sort of structure such as a fast drop or a point that they will hang out on.

    Line diameter

    in Beginning Carping

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    JUst a guess but the rig tubing should pin it to the bottom making it more invisible since its pinned down where as yoru braids and other lines often have a tendancy to float some so when a fish comes near the boat he may be tapped by the line because its possible its not laying on the bottom. Just a thought.

    Thanks to all for my 1st successful year of carpin!

    in Pictures, Stories & Video

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    After reading Jakes thread I felt I should have a thread to thank everyone for helping me out this year. I had an awesome time and got to meet a ton of people and talked to a lot of new people about carp fishing.Special thanks goes out to Karl at scorpion tackle for helping me out and great prices along with big carp tackle as well. Can't forget my carpin buddy Carl who spent many days fishing with me this year and everyone from PA and surrounding areas that I got to meet during the year and hope to meet more next year.This year was special for me because this was my first offical year of carpin and my dad would be proud of my accomplishments this year.My father would take me carp fishing when I was very young but most of those spots are private property and we could not fish as I got older. He would tell me about him fishing at a paylake called tomers back when he was younger. I was too little to try back then and as I got bigger his regular spots were not fishable and we never did good locally. I found cag last fall and learned various techniques and have caught pretty good for my first year and still a ton of room to learn. My father passed away 2 years ago and i know he is watching over me and I am sure he would have loved to see some of these monsters that I have caught this year. Below are a few highlights of my catches. I caught over 39 this year. I didn't keep count of them all. I caught up to 30lb 15oz for my largest and even had a 3 mirrors this year as well. I think my season is about done and I will be working a lot more to save up for some things so looking forward to meeting a lot of you next season out and about.

    baiting up an area

    in Beginning Carping

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    After watching a school of carp move through my are one day and watch them feed you will think twice. This was when I first started early in the year and was always scared of adding too much to the water. I had chummed out 4 cans of corn and when the school came in it was gone within 2 minutes if that. They sucked the bottom dry and moved on.Each session I fish now depending on how long I stay I chum 2.5 to 10 gallons of chum out. If this is a swim you fish a lot I would chum a lot out prior to fishing it and when you go to fish chum some out right before fishing then a spod out every 30-40 minutes while fishing.Karl I remember you saying before when you would go out on a boat and chum 100lbs that when you look down that it would spread so far that it was like a drop in the bucket. You have to realize when its in your bucket on the bank it sure looks like a ton but once baited out it spreads and current moves it and so on. If I were you try various chums to see what works best for you. I have used corn and method and the method has held them in my area better than the corn.

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