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    my first Below Freezing carp

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    I was fishing near a warm water discharge temp was about 62 degrees all the way to the bottom of about 18' of water there was a shelf at about 30 yards from the shore where depth went from 3' to 18' I was fishing 2 Bollies on a hair they where 12 mm i think, i will also note that i got to demo some of the forth coming ACS stuff, all very fine pieces of kit, infact have my eye on a couple of there rods :D

    PS here is kinda a kewl pic of the swim whit the power plant in the background

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    Tropical mirror

    in Pictures, Stories & Video

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    HonduCarper,

    1st Congrats on a great mirror they are always a welcom suprize, Also..........

    love a little info on the swims you fish, Rivers? Lakes? Ponds? what are some of the other speices that you might run into while carp fishing, Suckers, Buffalo, Catfish, thanks, =Z=

    best/most memorable trip ever

    in Pictures, Stories & Video

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    To date, this sounds really bad but I think the first time my bass angling eye's fell onto a rod pod, and those awsome rods, then the same trip I saw a 11lb not a large fish but to me it was abslutley a monster i was thrilled and the other angler I was with just was not that impressed with it I was running around taking pictures blown away and thats what it is all about i think, I knew that I had found my nitch havent look back since and that was just about a year ago, :D can't wait till the day I turn a die hard bass angler

    Thanks DFW rough Fishing CREW :D

    A Bufallo.... At Last!!!!

    in Pictures, Stories & Video

    Posted

    In texas they are farily common, this summer we had a session where some where around 17 fish where caught and the smallest was about 8lbs largest was 24lb I think =Z=

    here is a picture of typical TX buff that Carpaholic caught I think they tend to be a little flatter and a little "taller" for lack of a better word then carp

    Great Read

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    This was taking from a another site and reposted here with permission, just thought others might enjoy reading it as much as I did....=Z=

    "Long-Haired Dave" wrote:

    Let me first say that I am not terribly successfull fishing for carp

    with a fly rod. The way I fish for carp is GREATLY inferior to the

    way most of you fish for carp on this list, if success is defined as

    number of fish caught or even pounds of fish caught. This year, in

    about 10-20 outings where I targeted carp, from all-day affairs to

    just an hour here and there, I only hooked up with carp 5 times. I

    only touched two of those fish, the others were lost at some point

    during the battle. One at the very end and two immediately after the

    initial bolt, before the first run could really get underway.

    There are a lot of different ways to fly fish for carp. The lines

    get kind of blurry. Some people use a fly rod to throw bait (whether

    or not they chummed the carp in first) such as corn or bread or

    marshmellows or whatever. According to the IGFA this is not fly

    fishing, but I'm sure the people who do it find it very enjoyable.

    Some people will chum up carp and then cast a fly designed to imitate

    the chum. There are corn flies, bread flies, pellet flies-- almost

    any imaginable food source. This isn't considered outright cheating

    in most fly fishing circles, the IGFA has nothing against chumming

    when claiming records, but many circles or many individual fly

    fishers see chumming as a non-fly fishing technique. I won't say

    I've never tried this, Zach sent me somewhere with a loaf of bread

    once. I didn't turn up any carp but I was there rigged with my bread

    flies!

    The way I normally fish for carp, and most fly fishers go at it, is

    the same as stalking a redfish on a saltwater flat. I must first

    find carp, hopefully feeding carp. After finding the carp, I have to

    stay undetected and move into a casting position. Then I have to

    cast the fly so that it lands within inches of the carp's head, but

    without spooking it, and without "lining" the carp. Lining is a

    mistake, it's the name for a cast where the fly line or leader

    actually lands right above the carp on the water. The sudden shadow

    and splash (however minute) usually cause the carp to bolt. If the

    carp is still there, and still feeding, I have to make it interested

    in my fly by giving it some action. However many times the action of

    the fly causes the carp to bolt. If it doesn't, and I can see the

    fly clearly (not very likely except in extremely good circumstances),

    I have a chance. If the carp eats and I see it I can set the hook.

    If it eats and I don't see it, usually it will blow it out and/or

    bolt. If I can see the carp, I can read its body language to

    determine if it is eating my fly and try to set the hook, although

    this will usually make the carp bolt.

    As far as flies, carp will eat almost anything. Commons typically

    eat nymphs, small minnows, and crayfish-- food they prefer over

    grasses and algae. Typically the fly on the end of my line is a

    suggestive nymph, meaning the fly is not very detailed. It may have

    a couple of legs and/or tails but mostly it's a fluffy fly in the

    approximately correct colors designed to trigger the carp to eat.

    Occasionally I'll throw a very small minnow imitation, a fly maybe

    only half as long as my pinky. Many of the nymphs I throw will fit

    on my thumbnail. You can understand how seeing that on the bottom

    from several feet away might be problematic :D

    Usually if a carp eats my fly, it's a casual slurp. However on more

    than one occasion a carp has caught sight of my fly and charged it

    from some distance. I had a couple this year that caught sight of my

    fly when I did an erratic retrieve of a baitfish imitation and I saw

    the carp charging the fly, swimming straight at me, and then put on

    the brakes as we saw each other since my fly was too close to me.

    You can purchase a fly rod and do any number of things with it to

    catch a carp. Because a typical fly rod is around 9 feet long, a

    carp feels even stronger on one than a typical 6' baitcasting rig.

    At least that's what I've heard. I'm a fly fisher only, it's just

    that I don't know how to fish any other way and I spend enough time

    and money fly fishing that I don't really have a desire to learn.

    BUT the point is the longer rod gives more advantage to the fish.

    You can catch very, very large fish on fly rods. People will land

    billfish on fly rods, and you've all seen the occasional pictures of

    a fly fisher with a 200-pound tarpon. My point is, you can use a fly

    rod in a number of ways, but mostly when you think of fly fishing for

    carp, it's the way I've described above:

    hunt the carp; present to the carp; entice the carp; read the body

    language; set the hook; hold on tight-- fish fighting ability comes

    in here.

    One last note about fly rods that often goes missed in conversations

    like this. A major difference between fly fishing and all other

    kinds of rod and reel fishing is that fly reels are for the most part

    direct drive. What that means is there is no slip drag. I can't

    just crank a carp in when I feel like it. Either the carp is taking

    line or I am. The extra challenge here is when the carp runs

    straight at me, I must convert to hand stripping line, and when it

    turns away I want to get it "back on the reel", in other words,

    running against my drag, as quickly as possible to wear the fish

    out. Of course this means that I have dangling fly line I'm trying

    to reel up quickly without wrapping around my feet, or rocks, or

    branches.

    Fly fishing for carp is extremely challenging. The rewards, the rush

    of landing a fish, is incredible. But you have to remember like I

    said in the beginning, going at it the way I do is not nearly as

    effective as the techniques that you guys use. We get our kicks in

    different ways: you get your kicks fighting a big fish or fighting

    many fish in a sitting. I get my kicks when I finally reach a pay-

    off for many days of carp fishing. We probably hit similiar

    adrenaline levels, we just get there from different starting places!

    Town Lake Tale

    in Pictures, Stories & Video

    Posted

    as brian mention I was going to meet him and we where gonna leave

    3:00am or so....at about 10:30 that night I headed out all packed up

    and ready to go brian ask if I could swing by walmart on the way

    over as it was on my way no prob well made it to walmart baought all

    kinds of carpy things came out and my tire decied to go flat whilest

    I was buying all those carpy things I proceded to "try" and change

    it but the term FUBAR comes to mind so I when back into walmart

    bought some fix a flat 2 cans later my tire was up sort of I headed

    to the nearest gas station to a air compresser so that worked for

    about 10 min. until it was clear that I was losing air so I went I

    got 2 more cans of fix a flat and headed home I was going to use the

    cans take my car to the discount tire and be good to go be in austin

    by 11:00 well that was a good idea that being settled when my room

    mate got gome we decided that it would be best if we went and tossed

    some darts as this is my second hobby well we had a great time we

    came home piled out of the car ate our jack in the box and I went to

    my room and crashed well in the mean time tommy <thats my room mate>

    got up and headed to work bright and early the next morning with my

    Cell-Phone in his car that sucks cause I dont have brians number any

    where else but agian getting ahead of my self so I went out the next

    morning to fill the tire with the cans but guess what didn't work

    S*** so I have to call a tow truck remember one of the lugs was

    stripped out wait around for the tow guy to get here take my car to

    discount and some more waiting go it fixed finally about 12:30 at

    this point get home about the same time that my room mate is showing

    up hes was like hey your phone has been ring'n so called brian and

    told him what had happend about 2:00 or so at this point I dink

    around for a hour or so repacking all my junk I get in my car and

    head out get gas and go to free birds to get a briato for the road

    this but me around 4 hitting the road I reach waco bye 6:ish I have

    a good friend in waco attending baylor that likes to fish so I call

    him when I get to waco told him that I was heading to go fishing and

    that he should tag along he said awsome come by I will get my stuff

    together and we can go well I got there he was packing his junk I

    grabbed a beer out of the frige and tossed all his crap in my car we

    drank another beer and decied that at this point since we where a

    hour away form the lake we should catch up on old times well I guess

    we had alot of catching up to do cause a 30 pack of keystone later

    we where still catching up :D and there were quite a few people

    there now <HOT CHICKS> and they brought more should we say <catch up

    juice> and we made margritas and I think we got in a pool well

    eventuly all this fun became to much for me I belive that was around

    7:30 in the morning or so and I passed out and didn't wake up until

    3:00 sunday afternoon only god knows where my cell phone was at that

    point I staggerd out amungst 1-2.....hundred empty beer cans thats a

    bit of a stretch there couldnt have been more then a 150 emptys well

    we went and ate munudo and I headed home I wish that I had made it

    to the lake =PZ= <im 24 and there is hot chicks 5-2 ratio>

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