How do I catch a Carp in a small lake in New Jersey?
01.September, 2009
im going fishing for Carp in a lake near my house and am wondering what the best technique is. any help I appreciate a lot thanks!!!
Start with a nightcrawler first if they don bite that try corn, then try bread, if that fails you can make a dough bait…
I make a dough out of troutchow and artifical flavoring such as strawberry , butternut,mellofruit ,etc, or even make ball out of cooked rice and karo syurp. you make a loose doughball formed around a sugar pop(cereal).You put the sugar pop on your hook and formed a loose large ball around it. The dough would crumble underwater leaving a pile of your dough with the sugar pop exposed. The carp would eat the dough suck up the sugar pop and run with it.
Sounds complicated but it works good
P.S. make sure they are Common Carp and not Grass carp grass carp are totally different feeders than the common carp
01.September, 2009 um 5:43 pm
Used a long fishing pole with a cup hook to the line.
Carps love drink out of a cup.
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01.September, 2009 um 6:25 pm
Well carp are fish that mainlly feed on grass and a genarley hard to catch that is why a lot of people bowfish for carp…..i would say its gonna be hard but i would try many differnt things and try to irritate the fish so he will bite…..Good Luck!
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01.September, 2009 um 6:40 pm
Use minnows(work the best) or some huge night crawlers on a large hook, and have the hook about 2 and a half feet up the string. At the end of the string, 2 feet below the hook, put a big sinker on. Find a spot where you know there is fish, and cast out as far as you can. Let it sink to the bottom…and sit. You should atleast get some bites.
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01.September, 2009 um 6:50 pm
Start with a nightcrawler first if they don bite that try corn, then try bread, if that fails you can make a dough bait…
I make a dough out of troutchow and artifical flavoring such as strawberry , butternut,mellofruit ,etc, or even make ball out of cooked rice and karo syurp. you make a loose doughball formed around a sugar pop(cereal).You put the sugar pop on your hook and formed a loose large ball around it. The dough would crumble underwater leaving a pile of your dough with the sugar pop exposed. The carp would eat the dough suck up the sugar pop and run with it.
Sounds complicated but it works good
P.S. make sure they are Common Carp and not Grass carp grass carp are totally different feeders than the common carp
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01.September, 2009 um 7:06 pm
a nice catfish rod will do nicely, or a short stout rod. the shorter the better you need to set the hook quick and a shorter pole that is heavy puts more strain on the carp.
as for bait they will hit anything from insect larvae to half cooked veggies ( yes i used potato’s,corn and lima beans)
not knowing the size i would use at least 20 lbs test and a nice spincast reel.
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01.September, 2009 um 7:50 pm
When you catch it il tell you how to cook it! Put it on a cutting bored and put it in the over at 500 deg. for 3 hours, take it out and eat the cutting board….(they are not good fish to eat)
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