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    Longnose gars, some pics...

    in Other Species Stories

    Posted

    From what I've heard, you will get many more bites than fish landed. The ideal would be to set the hook after the bait leaves the snout area, but before it actually swallows the bait. So that's pretty hard. Many that were landed did indeed swallow the hook I guess.

    But I really don't know anything yet about these wonderful animals. Some of the Texas boys should be able to answer your question.

    Sounds like a circle hook would be the way to go.

    Worlds Worst Pictures !!

    in Pictures, Stories & Video

    Posted

    Jeepers Brid - you need to give Seamus some lessons in photography before you let him take any more pictures. :D :D :D

    Seriously though with the current weather conditions a few carp from a water that you don't visit regularly is not a bad day. We need to talk about other possible areas to fish if the dam area is that badly weeded up along with the rip rap issue.

    Will call you later today.

    My baby's First Carp

    in Pictures, Stories & Video

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    Great story Jose Luis - don't you just love it when the woman of your life catches that first one. Then they want more, bigger, better tackle, to beat your PB.

    Kristi (my lovely lady) caught her first carp on the 40th anniversary of my first carp (my first was no more than 5 lb, hers was 13lb 8oz). Her PB is now 20lb 14oz and she keeps wanting to go get a bigger one (she has had a couple come close at 20lb 10oz and 20lb 8oz).

    Clooping Carp

    in Carp on the Fly

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    John - I love your dog, and your tales of carping. Those cloopers can be really annoying when they are fixated on a specific food item can't they? How big is a fireplug? just so I know how big the guys were talking about.

    Will there be an ATC next year?

    in ATC 2010 and back...

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    Karl, Keith: I will buy your Friday night dinner- I trained a new manager that went to that store, and I want to take y'all back for a good time.

    Chad

    Chad - I don't need dinner on Friday night, I need a reasonable chance at catching fish on at least one of the days of the ATC. To achieve that I need to have a reasonable chance that one of the swims I pull out will not be completely dead. In the past three years I have had 5 out of my six swims devoid of any carp and two of them full of boats preventing me catching any carp.

    While I was at this years event at least six or seven long standing ATC visitors stated that they absolutely would not be back unless things were changed to at least give people the chance to catch fish.

    There are those of us that travel a very long way at a lot of expense for this event, only to end up in spots that no one with any real carp angling experience would pick to fish at that time of year. If I just wanted a social fishing event then I would get together with the local anglers out here, this should be one of the top events in the country yet more and more people go away disgruntled after the event.

    Really guys you need to have an angler who has a good deal of watercraft to pick the right swims for the time of year - and that is not meant as a dig at anyone who picked the swims, but it is plainly obvious from walking the swims that some are just non-producers in late March.

    If the event was restricted to half the teams (25) at twice the cost the event would be significantly better. The running costs would no more (less teams) and the income would the same at the same time doing away with a lot of the swims that even a blind carp angler would not pick.

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