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What do you use to grind stuff down brookesy?
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This article says 2/3 of the water will be diverted. I think many of the bigger mirrors will survive with 1/3 of the water in the lake. All hope is not lost!
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It was my understanding that the lake won't be completely drained? Something like 70% drained.
And of the fish species in the lake... The carp will be the ones that survive.
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Is there a list of scales that are accepted? I don't have a fancy "euro" scale but I do have a decent electronic one that I use.
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No luck out here in AZ still. I joined late December 2013 before the cutoff date. It's possible I may have accidentally slipped through the cracks on the mailing list?
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I'm excited to watch this. I've watched all the other ones multiple times. Alan Blair might be my favorite carp angler. He is a smart dude that you can tell genuinely loves catching carp of all sizes.
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Still no sign of my NACA in Arizona. Anyone else still waiting on their copy?
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What about a small flag that could be mounted on a bank stick? Easily moved, but visible and sweat/germ free.
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No sign of mine in AZ either.
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Haven't received mine yet either. Hoping for any day now!
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The curiosity comes from the desire to learn and be a better carp angler.
Nothing wrong with that I think.. I have learned a lot in this thread and I am just trying to get a better understanding. Much like a little kid that is going fishing for the first time. (Excited and full of questions)
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I'm not sure what nutritionally about pack bait makes it the best food? Or how it is the best food at all?
Most attractive food maybe? Like fast food for Americans...
This is genuine curiosity coming from someone in the southwest that has never seen a pay lake. Not saying you're wrong. Just trying to learn.
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Mario,
This was before my time here, but didn't Phone's "white paper" list hot stuff as a major attractor?
If so then maybe we have conflicting tests and maybe no conclusion yet?
Can't wait to get my NACA.
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With no dog in this fight so to speak, this conversation has been an interesting read.
I like to use a small stick of PVA with either bread, grits, or rolled oats and cream corn. I won't use anything larger than a mouthful where it seems like through pack bait or method there is actually enough to hold a fish in the area?
I want to start experimenting with a few other things though. There are no competitions in Arizona, but I wonder if a paylaker were to add a small amount of hemp oil and other similar "euro" stuff to their arsenal if it would change things.
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Definitely tie your own. The knot less knot is one of the easiest fishing knots I've ever used, and that will allow you to start making basic hair rigs that catch lots of fish.
Good luck!
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I can't wait as well. My most recent thoughts (no field testing yet), are that traditional flavors that just smell different but offer no other advantage for boilies are more or less a waste of time for any sort of long session or campaign.
I want my boilie to give off a profile of food oils and amino acids and not just smell like a fruit.
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Thinking about joining soon... and not that it matters as I plan on joining anyway... but is there still a "welcome to cag" package sent out with stuff from sponsors for first time members?
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Hinged stiff rig is another option to accomplish basically the same thing for a situation that needs a rig like that.
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I saw that. Hopefully it is viable for Asian carp, but as far as commons go I seriously doubt any state agency would be able to get funding for such a project .
Even then we are talking about a massive project that would probably only eliminate small to medium sized fish. The lone or small groups of giants would live on along with all the fry.
Asian carp is one thing the federal government is willing to throw money at. Commons are in every lake in America. It's just not probable, and I can't imagine any state agency putting up the money to do it. Maybe a hardcore bass dedicated lake that would need donations or private funding.
Asian carp are a different story.
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The Zig rig seems to be pretty popular in European waters where carp are often the most populous species in the lake. Densities in European waters are most likely much higher in those lakes than ours.
That said, is the zig rig an effective tactic in our waters? It seems with the lower density, we need the baiting/method/packbait tactics to focus carp into our fishing area.
A zig rig seems to rely on the chance that a suspended/cruising carp will happen upon the hookbait. Our lower than European carp density is working against us in this situation.
I'm curious about any experiences or thoughts US anglers have about zig rigs in wild carp waters.
All input is welcome!
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Haha I may have over thought it, just trying to make sense of it so I can formulate a strategy.
I sense putting in the time is probably the most important of all the variables.
The state record is out there somewhere!
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It sounds like I'm going to have to kick my bait making into a different gear to achieve that amount of pre baiting. I was going to try 1 or 2 pounds for several days in a row.
I guess I see your point though. 2 lbs per day is a statistically small number if you assume even a small number of large fish are in the swim. For instance, 2 20 lbers and a 35. The 2lbs is then only 2.6% of the 75 lbs of assumed fish mass..
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My mistake. I was speed reading. It was someone else. Great information nonetheless! The emphasis on hard boilies makes sense
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Mario, you mentioned in another thread that you measured mouth sizes, and it seemed like the cutoff for differences was 20 lbs. Being that there wasn't much of a difference between a 20 and a 30 lber.
Does a 24mm boilie generally correlate well with the measurements? For instance, is a 24mm boilie just too big for a 10 lb fish to fit in it's mouth?
I guess the idea is to find the size of boilie just above a size that won't fish in said 10 lb mouth, yet be small enough for the 20+ fish to easily inhale.
Hopefully that made sense.
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