[Royal Carp Day in Austin]

thats great keith,happy for you

[Crucian?]

i have seen alot of koi with no barbels

a crucian carp and common carp would be interesting.

i have never seen one.there IS a good number of crucian

carps in a small river dam thats made a good sized lake by me believe it or not.i'll try and catch one for a pic,for

you non-believers

tell me this.i know that carp and goldfish have crossed

bred in wild and by man.however i want to know if in the

wild its just by chance and location.heres why i ask.

carp on the spawning run move so fast and hard that

there is no way a goldfish could possibly keep up.duning

the whole run while the female is being drove by the males

shes spewing eggs everywhere.well perhaps a few gold

fish(which do spawn in a gentle way compared to carp)

happen to be spawning in the same areas as the carp and

the goldfish milt happen to reach a few ''lost''carp eggs.

and BOOOM! you have a hybrid.this has to be the only

way i could see the too spawning with out human intervention.what do you think?its just a theory

[ACS tackle]

yes, would like to know whats up with the rods

as well

[Carp feeding by hand]

i have been to a few places that feed carp like this.

places in CA,myrtle beach,florida,KY,AL.PA several places

here in OH.but i have NEVER,NEVER seen it as bad

as it is at Pymatunning Res on the OH/PA border.

its crazy!i guess things are really bad in out there

in Lake Mead as well.

[52 lb carp]

looks like a bighead,however the head dose not look

that big(wide)as a big head.so iam going with grasser.

this is probably more likely as its out of most peoples

range to accually hook a big head (in the mouth)i assume

this is how this fish was caught.

[Your first carp?]

been catching guapotes Hondu.ever catch any

''guapote blancos'' down there.or the natives call it

laguneros...its a big cichild.we call it wolf cichlid or

by its scientific name N.dovii in aquarium trade.

[ONE HAPPY CARPER]

boys,boys,boys..we have our own town lake(s)

[New PB Mirror!!!]

nice looking fish,man.

[Shock leader]

thanks keith!

[Shock leader]

keith,

do you use those knots with a mono shockleader

when fishing with rods that have a 12mm tip.

the 30lb mono makes a good sized knot,bigger

than any knot tired with a braid SL to a mono main line

no matter how the knot is tied.any fear of the

larger knot from the mono shockleader busting the tip

guide when only 12mm?

[airborne carp]

Mike,

i definally know what you mean about the drop backs that

grass carp can give.i had one once send the indicator falling strait down,with the entire line going limp.i picked up the rod and the fish,once i finally got the line tight to it.

was about 50 yds down the bank to the left of me.

the fish was no more than 2ft from the bank.they are definally quick!as i had been a good 80yds out.

there happens to be a lake near me where the commons

do the same thing.they come strait in on you.half the time you cant tell if you have a bull head or a 20lber

untill you see it!

[airborne carp]

i have never had a common jump clear out of the water.

but have had them hit the surface with serious force

right after picking up the bait.

i have had grass carp jump a good 3 ft out of the water

on several occasions during the fight.and one had to of

jumped 5 ft out of the water right after taking the bait.

he leaped out and did this crazy flip,and busted the line

all why the rod was still on the pod.i still cant figure out

how it broke the line as this was one of the only times i was accually useing the baitrunner perhaps it was snagged on the bottom or something.

[Closest spot?]

i live about 3/4 of a mile from a canal that has carp of

all sizes,and a large lake which the canal flows into,its about 1 1/2 from my current local,was under a mile when i was growing up.i dont fish at either one anymore.TOO

much darma involed with fishing these places.

so i stick to fishing a large chain of lakes that start about

2 miles to the south of me.far away from the BS!

[Paddlefish]

some of these deformed goldfish breeding projects

that come out of these asian labs scary

other hybrid/color dyed fish comming out of these asian

labs extremly scary

[Best fighting carp?]

a fowl hooked carp from any water fights the hardest.

but in my experience the mid teen fish from moving water

fight pretty good.also ones from clear water lakes also

scrap good.

[hehe..Flatheads]

thats probably why it was show on a show titled ''worlds dirtiest jobs''

although i would take noodling over the other jobs they profiled,

like cleaning and getting in grease traps and septic tanks

[hehe..Flatheads]

yeah man,i acually thought of you when i was watching that.

they had these fish hanging from ropes,the whole thing was sick.

the guy with the tattoo was a big dude,man,shortish and had to be

350lbs and definally a redneck by all means he said ''if i

ever loose an arm,hope its not this one.''was a pretty cool tattoo

though.

[hehe..Flatheads]

hey,speaking of noodling.did you guys catch that show on the discovery channel about a week ago,its called worlds dirtest jobs

or something.anyway they had these southern guys noodling for flats and of course they had about 5 that they killed and ate.they showed the whole cleaning prosses.i was sick,all the flats were in the teens.

BTW, Karp, one of the guys had a big flathead tattoo on his arm,

thats the only one i have seen besides yours.

[Carp pictures?]

i won't take a picture of a fish less than 20lb anymore

unless its a special occasion or it happens to

be a larger mirror like 18-19lb or some thing.i won't

take pictures of grass carp unless its about the same,

over 20lb.

[Tenchs]

for those that are intrerested...which is probably nobody the golden tench is gaining some popularity in this country as an ornamental pond fish.the ones i have seen

have been a bit pricey,probably because not that common over here yet,but i hear the pond experts sometimes recommend them over koi for modest sized ponds because they don't get as large as koi,yeah they can reach 20lbs though.there is some of the wild colored tench as well sometimes imported too,(much cheaper than the golds).so if anybody is looking to do a little

stocking opp.give a yell to the garden centers

[Tenchs]

keith,

have you went and caught any tench from this lake you

know of?

didn't Globetrotter state that he had caught or seen really

big tench up in washington or someplace up there?

[Tenchs]

i remeber the links that newt posted way back.after that i tried to do some serious research on them because there was a river right close to me that was suppose to be an

''original stocking water''for tench,way back when.

i never found any hard evidence on them still being there,

and asked the DOW DNR if they had a clue,they did not.

so i just figure any that were here in any number are

completly gone.maybe a few still swimming in lake eire.

which is where this river drains.it would be extremly hard

to locate any tench in any number in this country.

[Float Fishing]

centerpin,kind of like fly reel ,no? never handled one

before.

[GLOBETROTTER'S QUEST - LOW P&P to USA!]

i'll be putting in an order before the end of the week

i can't wait to read this book.

[Lockport 2-7]

BTW-none of you guys stayed to fish at night?i would be

curious to see how the action is there at night.