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There are plenty of fish but I only have so many J9 gold and black jointed rapaplas @ $9 or so a piece.
I keep no fish and I try not to kill any fish. But if the choice is a dead fish or my rapala the fish isn't going to win. Now if its just a tube jig or spinner bait or other cheap lure I will clip the line and hope the fish will live. Just not with $8 or $9 plugs. It's very rare that they get hooked in the gills with plugs anyways.
I do go thru great lengths trying to retrieve snagged lures. Usually moving the boat every which way causes it to come free. But yes I have swam to get them too.
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I have a bunch of boilies I bought from the for sale section here. I tried pre baiting with them to try and get the carp used to them then I tried one rod with boilie on the hair and one with fake corn. No takers on the boilie yet. Didn't get to try too much before the warm weather and an algae bloom kinda killed the fishing. I will try again.
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Yikes I love carp fishing but not at that price that's a lot of money! Hopefully corn works
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Ugh went by the cabin and the lake is still green
On a positive note our new septic tank was installed.Still might try fishing tomorrow.
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I always use a running rig but I may have to try something different my lake (oh yeah I do own 90' of shoreline on a lake with Carp in it) besides it being summer it is in the middle of a hideous algae bloom. Water literally looks like green paint. The fishing has really taken a nose dive.
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Which is an f'ing European problem. I live in the land of 10,000 f'ing lakes. Most of those have carp in them and they are free to fish in with a fishing license. Our Carp grow wild and free and flourish despite being hated by 99% of fishermen. They thrive despite commercial netting and bow fisherman.
But my "death rig" is a danger to them
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I haven't been out to the cabin all week. I'm going tomorrow. If the Algae has cleared I'll fish and see what's what. I pass the cabin on my way to work. I'll leave early to stop and throw a couple chum blocks in just in case.
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I fish with bait runners but I think my problem is I fish 99% of the time off of docks so I don't have a lot of room to get away from the other rod.
The two nets would be helpful tho.
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I love my Fox rods.
How do you deal with doubles?
Sometimes when the action is fast I just go with one rod because of the hassle of trying to keep one fish away from the other line.
I've had a couple of PITAS when the lines got tangled together.
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Havent seen any carp activity no carp breaching anywheres for over a week.
Besides the usual summer fishing issues our lake has had a blue green algae bloom.
I'm going to postpone the fish in. I don't want guys driving for hours to catch nothing. Plus the water is toxic to humans and pets. My gf waded into the water to help get the boat on the trailer. She got rashes on her ankles for her troubles.
I was hoping it would clear up. My neighbors assure me it doesn't happen often or stick around long. But the water looks like green paint with zero visibility.
We'll try again in late August early September when the fishing gets back to being good.
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Havent seen any carp activity no carp breaching anywheres for over a week.
Besides the usual summer fishing issues our lake has had a blue green algae bloom.
I'm going to postpone the fish in. I don't want guys driving for hours to catch nothing. Plus the water is toxic to humans and pets. My gf waded into the water to help get the boat on the trailer. She got rashes on her ankles for her troubles.
I was hoping it would clear up. My neighbors assure me it doesn't happen often or stick around long. But the water looks like green paint with zero visibility.
We'll try again in late August early September when the fishing gets back to being good.
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Havent seen any carp activity no carp breaching anywheres for over a week.
Besides the usual summer fishing issues our lake has had a blue green algae bloom.
I'm going to postpone the fish in. I don't want guys driving for hours to catch nothing. Plus the water is toxic to humans and pets. My gf waded into the water to help get the boat on the trailer. She got rashes on her ankles for her troubles.
I was hoping it would clear up. My neighbors assure me it doesn't happen often or stick around long. But the water looks like green paint with zero visibility.
We'll try again in late August early September when the fishing gets back to being good.
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I started using my 6' bass rods, then went to 7 1/2 and then 9' ers but it wasnt til I got 12' Carp rods that I really was able to control fish and keep them from running into snags.
I have an Okuma bait runner and it works fine. I use it for spodding mostly now. I've got two Daiwa emcast BR reels they are not super expensive about twice the cost of the Okuma but its like driving a dodge neon vs a Mercedes. The drag especially is so much smoother.
Even if you get cheap $10 bite alarms they are better than nothing. Honestly besides build quality I don't notice that my cheap ones work any worse than my expensive ones.
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OK let's get a roll call who all is coming?
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OK let's get a roll call who all is coming?
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OK let's get a roll call who all is coming?
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If pike and muskies can survive break offs with a 8" lure with 4 giant treble hooks in its mouth. A carp dragging a feeder around will do little not to mention as soon as the feeder snags on something they will pull the hook out of their mouths. We all know they have soft rubbery mouths and that if you play them too hard they can pull the hook. The idea that they will drag around a bit if leadcore and a feeder and die from it is assinine. But once again I don't break off my gear is sized so I won't and I play the fish so they don't pull the hook let alone break 25lb braid.
The ring I use between my mainline and the leadcore is used in tuna fishing it won't break, unlike a lot of swivels. Which is why the swivel is on the hooklentbook length.
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But its only euro folks who have the attitude you do and criticize peoples ideas and techniques like you do.
But I'm done with you I'm not using a spliced loop period the end. You're only argument for using it is not about hooking and landing more fish. The same as say using barbless hooks or replacing treble hooks on a lure with single hooks.
Period the end I get more hookups the way I rig it than yours. I've tried it both ways. To change my rig so that it is less effective on the off chance I may break off and the fish drags the weight around makes no sense to me.
Arguing with you is a bore. Much like how keeping a fish to eat turns a fun activity into a chore.
Now to go see if this forum has an "ignore" option....
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I don't want the swivel pinned in the method feeder I want the method feeder to freely slide up and down the lead core. I think I've said that in two different posts but I guess reading comprehension is not a focus of UK schools?
You keep saying bolt rig have I used it once?
What I do works so how is your advice good? Good for what? Fish safety? Yes I guess since your way would have me hook less fish then it would be safer.
My way is better so you should accept it. I've done it your way it doesn't work as good. Have you tried it mine??? So like I said STFU you know not of what you speak.
But by all means keep being a snobby prick it seems to be what you Euro guys are best at
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Sorry but I've done it with the feeder on the main line and I get more hook ups the way I show in the pic. Physics are physics if you can't wrap your mind around how when a fish is pulling on the bait and suddenly it runs into resistance (the feeder weight) how that will cause the hook to go in I don't know what to tell you??? Kinda common sense.
Do it yourself, have the hook just sit on your finger and then pull it with no resistance. Will the hook bury itself in your finger? No of course not. Now do it my way wanna bet when the hook meets the resistance of the feeder the hook will go in your finger? Like I said if you have 1\2 a brain its common sense.
Time for you to STFU and worry about yourself. I have studied up on carp fishing that's why I've been catching them. Before last year I also had 30+ years fishing for other species including in the Atlantic Ocean. I spent my teenage years fishing with a professional fisherman who had his own TV show. So you can stop trying to make yourself seem smarter.
I do what I do for a reason and that is to catch fish. I am totally not concerned with a fishes safety. By definition I am trying to cause it injury. Oh wait are you one of the idiots who think fish don't feel pain??? Or that jabbing hooks in their mouths doesn't injure them???
Yes I truly wish I didn't hurt it or harm it but my desire to catch them overrides my concern for them. And yes I let them go but again for purely selfish reasons. I let them go so they can get bigger and I can drive hooks into their faces again! NOT because I love them and want them to... Whatever it is fishes do.
Take your snobbery back over to the UK where it belongs.
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Death rig? Thats awful Euro sounding lol.
Not a swivel its a steel ring. I use 25lb braid, leadcore, and a 30lb hook length. Feeders are expensive no way am I losing one. I use a swivel at one end and the ring at the other so that the feeder can slide up and down the length of the lead core and the lead core only. I don't want it sliding up my main line. See they take the bait and its free until the feeder hits the upper ring at the end of the leadcore and then it buries the hook.
Honestly if you are so concerned about fish welfare you should perhaps re consider sticking hooks into them
I'm all about catch and release but not at the expense of losing gear. I hook a bass in the gills with an $8 lure, sorry that bass is gonna die.
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If you use a method feeder I only use like a 6"ish hook length and a very short hair. I rig it free running on lead core.
I have been using this rig exclusively (with different feeders) since ice out and when it stops catching I'll change it but it hasn't happened yet. I didn't invent this I saw a video on method feeders and the guy was using it.
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I'm going to pre bait whenever I'm at the cabin. I also have some chum blocks I made and I will chuck those in when it gets closer.
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Oh and if you paid attention it was a Euro guy who started the whole thing.