[CAG Ohio Winter Social 2017]

Looks like you guys had a great time! Wish I could've made it. 

[Best session to date!]

What a haul man, congrats!

[Carp fishing connects the people...]

Looks like you guys had a blast!

[Another great weekend in Ohio]

Do these Amur's feed on the same baits are other carp?

[Ohio petition for 3 rods:]

I think its a great thing and I also signed the petition. I feel the bad eggs don't exactly follow fishing regulations anyways, you'll have that if its 1 rod of 5. I commonly see guys fishing public access spots on the GMR using 4-5 rods each.

[New PB For Me]

Awesome pictures, congrats on the new pb!

[New carper shopping list]

I plan to fish a few large state reservoirs, the Ohio river and great Miami river on occasion. I do have a pair of small okuma baitfeeders on 8ft rods I use for channel cat that may work on smaller waters.

[New carper shopping list]

Yeah rodman actually offered to show me some gear in my introduction thread. I may just see if I can take him up on that.

[New carper shopping list]

Forgot to mention, this isn't just a random question, it's actually my budget to get started carping lol.

[New carper shopping list]

OK so let's say you had to start over, you have no carp fishing gear. You have $1000-$1500 to spend, what do you buy? Doesn't have to be specific brands just general gear.

[New guy from Cincinnati]

I appreciate the warm welcome from you all, certainly a friendly group of folks here.

I've been spending a lot of time on here taking in a lot of information. I have been talking to a few fishing buddies of mine about carping and all the new methods of catching them that I've been reading about. They seem pretty well excited to give it a try also.

Really glad I found this place, random Google searching for this sort of info is a tiresome task.

[New guy from Cincinnati]

Just thought I would make a post to introduce myself and say hello.

I've been browsing the forums for a few days, recently discovered the site via a member of the OGF forums. I've been fishing my whole life, mostly for catfish. I'm sort of a new "carper", though I've fished for them many times in the past and caught hundreds, I never had carp specific gear or really appreciated them as a gamefish until recently. I've recently become interested in the euro style of carp fishing, all the fancy trinkets and carp specific gear has me intrigued. I have had my eye on this style of fishing for several years now, but never seriously enough to pull the trigger and buy some gear, until now. I figure I know of several local places where I could catch very large carp, I know I enjoy catching them and they fight like a frieght train, why am I wasting my time with other species? As a diehard catfisherman, my local waters just do not produce throphy size cats, especially with the commercial fisherman basically hoop netting the Cincinnati pool of the Ohio clean of the big ones. Not to make it sound as if I think carp are a last resort to catching large fish, that isn't the case. More so why not embrace the carp that I already know I love to catch, put my time and effort into chasing those monsters instead.

So that is what brings me here, I hope to learn a lot from you guys here and hopefully I can contribute some myself in the future.

I currently still do not own any carp specific gear, that will change soon. I've been carefully doing my research on what to shop for, I plan on buying everything I need to get started within the next couple weeks.