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    2011 Year Of The Whale

    in Pictures, Stories & Video

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    Mario,

    Are these different strain of carp? They look very different from what most of us are used to seeing ...

    Thanks.

    Teo

    Bueno bueno, this was my biggest of the year and the current Mexican common record. With so many mirrors around it will be a tough one to break for me...

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    This one came real close...

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    Luis had a fantastic year with several very nice upper 30 carp on the fly and one absolute freak which bottomed out his 50lb scale:

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    I tried to catch that fish again for a proper weighting, but to no avail. I had to settle for this ugly fatty. :D

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    The rest of the year was spent looking for new waters with a proper amount of blanks as a result. I've seen some great places and might be on to something interesting. During last trip I ended up loosing a decent fish to the anchor rope of a Texas registered sailing boat on a big lake in Mexico. :rolleyes:

    Anyhow, lots of exploring ahead of me for 2012. But first a trip with Iain in January... B)

    Wccl 2011 Rd 2

    in Windy City Carp League

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    Probably couldn't choke down those range cubes. :lol:

    Seriously, though, I know that great care is taken to properly handle the captured carp; but, in reality, this is a "blood sport" where we pull a creature, rather violently, out of its natural environment after impaling it on a hook. It fights, probably close to exhaustion, to avoid capture. Then we transfer it from our bacteria-laden net to our bacteria-laden unhooking mat to our bacteria-laden weigh sling. Then, we hold it up in our bacteria laden hands for a picture. Finally, we release it in, probably, a weakened state. I suppose there will be some mortality in that process.

    And, to take it a step further, you wonder what happens to those fish that break off and are left with that rigging in their mouths? That's why I don't get too excited when I see some people keeping carp for a meal or two. What would you prefer: some dead carp for our tournament pleasure or some dead carp used for food? I would like to think, though, that only a couple fish of the 114 that were caught at our league session died as the result of our fishing/handling.

    The only way to completely avoid contributing to the problem would be to completely stop fishing for carp. :o --Frank

    Frank,

    We all have seen the rush during tournaments.

    No one let the carp rest for a minute after it is in the net before they pull it out of the water.

    And the release is often very violent with the carp flying off that 6 to 10 ft wall into the water.

    At least, that's what I have seen.

    On the other side those dead carp may have nothing to do with the tournament.

    Teo

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