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    Midwest Cag Regional, Battle Of The States

    in 2013

    Posted

    Hi Andy, I am 100% positive (I checked with the City and Eric & Dave the organizers) that the WI Carp Championship will take place on the June 8-9 weekend. I don't know if this will conflict with your event or not (yours is CAG only and a Team event, so might well draw a different demographic?), but this might be a problem?

    I don't think I could convince the City of Two Rivers to change the date as:

    1. They are already booking the acts for CarpFest, and;

    2. I'm only the unpaid "tournament consultant"; no-one has to listen to me! :o)

    One other thought just crossed my mind; the WI CC Organizers changed the date to the 2nd week in June, to avoid conflict with the WCC Guys Baldwinsville week... You've already got a great bunch of anglers signed up, so perhaps that also won't be a problem?

    How Much Time Did You Need To Be Addicted From Carp Fishing ?

    in Pictures, Stories & Video

    Posted

    Wonderful story Paul, that's how most of my carpin' buddies have started... wondering what the heck I was up to, and wandering over to take a closer look... sometimes doesn't take long to turn a Walleye or Salmon or Musky angler to "The Dark Side"! ;)

    You can pass my phone number along to The Mirror Man if you get the chance... I have a few new spots for him to try, when the fish under that bridge move on... :D

    October carp

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    Great pics and story John; flats carping has a fascination all of it's own... we have some great flats fishing up here in WI, too.

    Big OUCH! for the Lamson... still, "it died with it's boots on"; the only way for a class reel to go!

  10. "THE FIGHTING ROUGHFISH'S" Illinois Carp Championship

    in Carp Fishing Now

    Posted · Edited by Lee Young

    Thanks for checking, Paul. The rep at St. Croix's Park Falls store told me the rods would be available in early to mid-October, but I would suspect that the timeline you were given is more accurate.--Frank

    I received the first 24 from the first production batch this week... the Senior Stewards from the 2010 WI CC will think that Christmas has come early this year... :)

    I've also been in contact with the folks at St. Croix this morning; both 12 and 9-6 rods are still on target for early October delivery to dealers placing orders NOW. While there's always a risk that some components may not come into stock in time (for example, these rods do have the 2010 New Release Fuji Black Alconite Carp Guides; let's hope Fuji anticipated the demand!), I'm fairly confident that St. Croix will be close to this target date.

    A couple of answers to rumors and concerns:

    1. The 12 footer is $280, is of course hand-crafted in Park Falls, WI, and has state-of-the-art fittings, as well as some very advanced design and engineering principles underneath the skin. It also carries St. Croix's Lifetime Warranty. It's no secret that I've replaced my UK rods (made in China, of course) in 2.75, 3.00, 3.25, and 3.50 tc's with this one rod. The price for 3 Avid's is $840, and the 12 rods cost me around $2,800... Seems relatively cheap to me to go with the more versatile, hand-crafted, American-made, high quality products. :D

    2. I've been seriously thinking about a 12-6 "Big River/Long Cast" rod, but it isn't even at the design stage yet. I may start design work later this year, but that would mean a 2012 delivery date at the earliest... I'm very picky about my prototypes!

    3. The 9-6 rod is just simply the one rod I would buy, if I could only afford one rod. I believe it's the most versatile big fish rod I've ever designed.

    4. What do I get from the deal? I have 24 rods (awards for Stewards and rods for folks to "try before they buy"), and the satisfaction of knowing that my time and money spent in R&D and lots of testing (the FUN part!) has paid off with the first Carp Rods exclusively designed and hand-crafted in the US. And yes, I'm biaised... but I think they are good!

    Is this a common carp?

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    Both sets of pics are of Ghost Koi; a typical Gold Ghostie and a typical Silver (White) Ghostie... nice fish! As has been mentioned previously, "Mutts" are fairly common in areas where:

    1. Local waterways run through suburban or urban areas, and;

    2. Those urban/suburban areas are either in the vicinity of Koi Pond Owners homes (flash floods can bring Koi's from Ponds straight into the local Lake, via storm sewer overtopping), or;

    3. University, College or Technical College, or other transitory lodging areas (when the "pet" outgrows student's fish tank and is too big to take home!), or;

    4. Close to Parks where Fairs hosting "Win a Goldfish" games are frequent visitors!

    I used to fish a smallish Lake in the middle of a Park in an English Country Town, which boasted several Colleges nearby and an annual Fairground. It was a match (tournament) venue, and all sorts (pun intended!) of Mutts would come out on match days... kinda fun! I used to take my daughters fishing there when we lived in the area; they fished the long pole with me, and we'd choose on each fish; catch, release... or take home as a pet!

    Of course, these fish, while fun, are of plain peasant stock, when compared to the true, native Lake Michigan Koi; the Fabled Trivers Golden Trout (see my pic, left)... these beauties are minted out of pure gold!

    If you catch one of the lesser Koi Aristocracy (see below), give your local Koi Dealer a call, might be worth a few bucks!

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    Hair Length

    in Beginning Carping

    Posted

    16 mil Boilies work great as double or even triple baits; it's always worth tying up a couple of hooks with extra-long hairs so you can offer a big, jointed bait. That makes a nice sized mouthfull, that's rather tricky to spit out, once picked up? :)

    It Ain't Carp'n But What the Heck

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    Dave, the water temp is about 55-59, not bad but the air temp is not much above the water temp so it's cold enough for waders here. I normally just wear swimming trunks from May to October, then put on the waders. I do have thermal top on under the shirt.

    Airborne, I like this basket a lot because I always use a fanny pack and it clips on nicely. I also use it in Baja so I have another rod ready to go. I'll strip off the line into the basket, pin the fly in the foam, stick the rod butt in the hole in the basket and then set the whole thing down in the panga. Say I put my 8wt in there and am fishing my 10wt and we come upon some smaller dorado that would be overkill on the 10wt. I can set down the 10wt and start immediately tossing the 8wt right out of the basket. Most times I keep my 6wt in the basket ready for peanut dorado and small roosterfish etc.

    I also like it if I have to fight a corbina or leopard shark that has me moving up and down the beach. I can simply toss the basket up on dry sand to get it out of the way and fight one rather then have it bumping against my leg while moving around. With a Orvis basket, which I have three, it is hard to disconnect when the belts(basket and fanny pack) have intertwined, You may release the latch but the belts may stick together and now the basket is flopping around your knees, not good.

    One year in Baja I forgot my posts for the basket and went to the grocery store and bought a package of penciles, cut them down and they worked great. LOL

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    Even I...

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted · Edited by Lee Young

    Hi Mario,

    Don't tempt me into a "warm water" trip... the water's cold, hard & white up here, and I won't be able to get a carp fly wet for another 3 months I expect.

    If you have some smaller fish & small river waters, that would be a good place to start. The 10 pounders are often a lot less picky than their larger cousins, and fish in small rivers will offer you more targets for a cast, AND will probably be much more willing to take a chance on something "buggy" wandering past their noses. Looks like you have plenty of materials to tie up some scuds, caddis nymphs, and maybe even a crayfish or two? :rolleyes: Let me know if you want some details on tying patterns for carp flies?

    New from So California

    in Carp Locally & Fishing Reports

    Posted

    Thank you for your warm welcomes, and thank you for the private messages.

    I have already been in touch with one or two guys from the Socalcarpclub thanks to the posts here.

    I have just bought my first European styled tackle and cannot wait to try it out.

    I have read a lot of the reports in the Southwest section and can see that there are quite a lot of fishermen here in The LA area that fish for carp, I was very impressed by the size of the carp caught here, I had no idea they were that size.

    Hmmm, and that's just the fish that they are actually admitting to! :rolleyes:

    Rio Carp Line

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    Guys, I'd like to point out first that I'm not paid by Rio, and don't get free gear or anything like that. But... I primarily use Rio lines and tippet materials for my Carp fly-fishing. Why? I've found that it always "does what it says on the packet"... can't say that about many of the items I've purchased for fly fishing over the years! :rolleyes:

    The gear I use the Rio Carp line on? A St. Croix Legend Elite Saltwater #8 rod, and a Sage 4580 reel. Large arbor reels like the 45 series are the best for this type of fly line, and I find it works well whether I'm punching out a near-nuff cray pattern across the wind on the limestone flats, or when I'm dropping a #16 bug into a creek pool. The Saltwater Legend Elite #8 is quite simply the best darn Carp Fly rod I've ever used... in fact the quality and efficiency of this one rod is one of the main reasons why I decided to help St. Croix Rods in some of their other designs.

    Expensive gear? Well, yes... but looked after this rod and reel will last any angler a lifetime, and the line will last through a lot of fish; I've had my fair share of twenties on this gear and the line still performs like new. And expense is after all a relative term; this outfit has cost me less than my tournament carp gear... and a lot less than my UK/European Matchfishing long pole!

    Rio lines are good, as are Scientific Anglers, and several other good manufacturers. Cheap they are not, but if they help you land the fish of a lifetime, how expensive is that?

    Tournament of Champions

    in Carp Tournament Series

    Posted

    Well, I wouldn't know about which City is the Carping Capital of the US, but I think everyone who fished is a star... I know I would struggle to keep catching after 50 hours on the water, so congratulations to the guys who managed to dig deep on that last night... from someone just following this on the web and via cell phone, this looked and sounded more like a cross between "Survivor" and "Endurance" than a fishing competition. B)

    The fish finally fed a little better in some pegs, and boosted the scoreboard to a more respectable weight. Applause and deep respect to all the prize winners, you certainly earned your cash and prizes! B)

    Better luck next time to all those who "endured" without reward... not every tournament can be this hard, surely?

    Tournament of Champions

    in Carp Tournament Series

    Posted

    As of the last update, my buddies Larry and Josef are leading by a few pounds; keep it up lads! B)

    This is certainly proving to be a low weight nail-biter, nothing like the 2008 WI Carp Championships! I'm thinking it will go down to the wire, and one or two big fish on the early morning tide may well decide the top 3 places... exciting stuff!

    A big WELL DONE!!! to Dave, the organizing team, the sponsors (thanks Cabela's Folks!), and of course ALL of the competitors; you are all great Ambassadors of Catch & Release Carping!

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