[Michigans Family fish-in]

Fun day for sure!

[Hello!]

Welcome to the forum.

You and I met at the curry day at Andy 2 yrs ago or at Cabelas the next day right?

Love the "NHS" shirt.

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The Gander Mountain, right? Yup I was there!

[Hello!]

Hey guys! My name is Santosh, and I've been a long time lurker on this board. I'm from Michigan, and I have fished a lot with guys like Kev (old state chair) and Andy (of the Bait Stop). I am in North Carolina currently for school (GO DUKE), so I have been fishing lately with Mike and Tim, but my first NC carp still eludes me. No worries, I'm sure it will happen soon. I've been carping for 3 years now, and I love it. Cheers everyone!

[NC report]

Thanks guys! NC carp are providing to be very moody haha. Much tougher fishing than my home waters in Michigan.

[NC report]

After seeing Colin get those two beauties in a new lake in western NC, UKTim and I decided to do a 48-hour trip Friday evening-sunday morn and see what we could find. we didn't have any bank space to fish the prespawn areas, but with a report of a 16 at a spot last weekend we decided to give that place a go.

we bivvied up, launched the john boat and dumped 30+ lbs of bait. Came back to shore, set up 8 rods, and spodded about 20 more lbs of bait over the next 48 hours. Unfortunately, the NC curse still lingered...we blanked with the exception of 4 puny little catfish. A front blew in Saturday around 4, and a few carp started rolling...but no runs. It started to rain hard at 5 and didn't let up until 7 AM on Sunday.

what can you say, we gave them everything we got. My NC carp drought will have to last until the fall...unless I decide to do a suicide run next weekend. Fishing during the spawn can be tough, especially when you're not fishing their prespawn staging areas and are fishing on a 10,000+ acre lake. The fish were staging in the creeks and fingers in preparation to move up into their classic spawning areas. Beautiful place though...lots of potential.

[Another Cammack gold bar!!!!]

Good job!

[back on the Detroit river]

Kev, nice fish! Lets go fishing when I get back to MI!