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My goal for this May is 150 or 1 50.
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Click on "Live Leaderboard" at the top of the page.
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Nice day! That's one skinny pike! She probably just spawned and is looking for anything to eat right now.
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Just a heads up for people signing up for the Big 4: when I registered the confirmation email with my password went to my spam folder. I use AOL, if you guys don't see the email check your spam folder.
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My scale broke, can I use the formula?
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Congrats again! That fantail/FSM/ghost is one of the most beautiful carp I've seen.
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Awesome catch!
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Those records aren't up to date and like you said they include fish killed by bowfisherman unfortunately.
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I'll set up a booth for autographs at Baldwinsville.
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Sweet, good job!
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Sweet, it got smaller! I guess I'm the US carp record holder again with my 53lb 12oz fish
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I put goose #### in my bait. The carp feed on goose crap in the pond I fish and my catch rate has gone up dramatically since I started dooing it.
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Matt Janiszewski NJ 53lbs12oz caught in 2012 Story: http://www.carpanglersgroup.com/forum/index.php?/topic/48323-fish-of-a-lifetime/
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Yikes.Don't get me started with my spod rod handle lol.
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If I didn't have all that trash around my swim I would lose my reputation as the "homeless carper." Plus with all those oats and slime caked all over my gear the people in the parks I fish stay away from me
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I don't waste time and money in pva bags unless I have to cast 100-150 yards like I did at he St. Lawrence river. I just put pack around my hook bait, or sometimes I do the double whammy, pack around the lead AND hook bait.
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I don't usually get blow backs with puffs. I noticed with the oat balls, boilies, corn on the hair I get a lot of bumps and eventually a run. With the puffs the rod will be still and all of the sudden I get a run with no bumps. I think this is because the puff sits on top of the pack and its the first thing to fly into their mouths. Also the tension on my line, 2" leader, big hook and angle of the hook give me an instant hookup a huge percentage of the time.
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Good video, I mentioned that I like the angle of the hook on those rigs and he talked a lot about that. I try to get a similar angle on my puff rigs.
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Yes, I think the amount of water coming out of a carps mouth on a blowback catches those bulkier baits and pushes the hook out backwards, even if they are bouyant. I don't think you get less blowbacks with bouyant baits, but I do think bouyant baits are much easier for carp to suck up into their mouths. That's why I use orange styrofoam balls inside my oat balls
I think the best way to fish those rigs is on a shorter leader and a bolt rig so the hook pricks the lip before they have a chance to blow it out. -
When did I say all the extras around the bait make it useless? I understand how the blowback rig works, the angle of the hook gives you a much higher hookup rate compared to a standard hair rig, and if you place the bait farther from the hook you get more hookups and less ejections. I also have messed around with split shots setting the popups different distances off the bottom. I just think all that extra stuff around the hook gives the carp more to blow out sending the hook backwards out of the mouth, more often than a puff rig from what I've seen. If you disagree that's fine.
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I was just trying to help explain the difference between popup boilies and puffs for team sorano and others who aren't familiar with puffology. I know puffs are awesome because I have been very successful fishing them next to other baits. That being said I experiment with and catch fish on all kinds of baits and rigs, including boilies. I caught my first 30 on a boilie. I don't feel a need to take sides, I just like to try to explain why puffs work and what the differences are between euro and paylake setups. A lot of people dismiss or dislike paylake rigs without putting in the time to learn how to use them and see the results.
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Well your walmart rig doesn't have any bolt effects and you basically have a plain jane rig all year round.Euro theres so many great rigs you can play with that work great and are camouflaged.
Walmart rig? Maybe you're thinking of someone else. I've caught more fish on euro rigs than most of the people on this site.
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Bait in the hook has probably caught more fish than a hair rig over time. I've caught a lot without a hair. My personal preference is a hair rig because I like Tinkering with it. I've had days where the only thing that would produce was a couple kernels of sweet corn on the hook. Better to be adaptive and open minded than stuck in the same place.
I've caught some of my biggest fish using sweet corn on the hook. If you are not open minded and willing to experiment you are limiting yourself.
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If you try to use the color of the splitshot , I use rig putty in brown. With matching hooklink, leader and sinker.
Nah, all that extra #### around the hook just make the bait easier to eject.
CAG May Big 4 - Trashtalk
in 2014 Spring
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I've been baiting for a few days. Looking forward to seeing what we pull out this may.