carp

[anthrax2244]

Fished a pond in morristown from 7-8am. one carp about 22" and fat, on corn. had trouble with shiners eating corn off my hook. caught a 9/10" shiner as well. I'm going back tomorrow morning with a camera for pics. biggest i got there in the past weighed in @19lbs and almost 3ft long. They fight better than the lakers!

[AndyS]

Sounds like a great place to get bait as well.

[Eskimo]

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Nothing fights like a carp.
They don't jump like a smallmouth bass. They just pull and pull and don't tire very easily.

I caught my first carp in years this past weekend. I saw a mulberry tree dropping berries into a lake and a shoal of hungry carp breaching the surface to eat them. I couldn't help myself. I hooked a mulberry and cast it under the tree and caught one that measured 22 inches and probably weighed like 6 pounds.

[jmurr711]

Philly Salmon! try chuming with creamed corn sometimes this helps kep the lil fish away rom hook baits as they pick at the litle bits as it is easier for em

[surfrod]

any suggestions on finding and fishing carp waters in south jersey?

really never tried for them, but been reading and getting a bug.

I'm sort of getting the idea for new waters to try chumming an area first, then coming back to see if any show up.

Then trying a plan to fish them.

[anthrax2244]

Hopefully the one or both of the links work below. The fat carp is the one I caught a few days ago after I started this thread. It went 29" and must have been 15lbs, very very fat fish. I also caught a 32" but my wife deleted the pic from the camera.....Both carp were caught in the 1st hour, on back to back casts. both fish took about 15 mins to bring in on 6lb test with size 8 hook. Shiners came in again and kept bait stealing, I caught several, biggest was a solid 10", would be great musky/pike bait.

Pic 2 and 3 of the longer carp is from 2010, which was 34" and weighed just shy of 20lbs. I'm 5'11 and 175lbs for perspective.

Jmurr- im gonna try the creamed corn this weekend, that's a great idea.

I would suggest sight fishing, carp will hangout near the surface and dont seem to shy away from shallow water. Theyre big and can easily been seen. Look for bubbles and mud trails when they're on active feeding on the bottom. Chum some corn and u should get a feeding frenzy. I've found that after catching 1 or 2, they get spooked and disappear. Change locations at that point.

http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/anthrax2244/slideshow/

http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/anthrax2244/library/

[saxmatt]

Nice carp! Cool to see more people getting into carping. If you are releasing them try not to pick them up by the mouth or gills, the tissue is softer than most fish and can easily rip with carp that size. Like jmurr said chumming works well. Try mixing creamed corn with quick or old fashioned oats and mold the mix around your lead. It will break up and make a pile of food attracting them to your hookbait.

[surfrod]

what's your favorite chum? I've read about dog food, corn, bird seed. Guess almost anything can work?

[surfrod]

Not sure about the carp but I spooked some decent sized bass in a pond across the street this morning. Thought there were only stunted bass and sunnies in there. Boy was I wrong and now I'm going to have to find a way to catch em :)

[GetANet]

Sunnies are the ticket to those BIG BASS hook em' of the just in front of the dorsal fin and use a small float about 1 1/2 above it. It's okay if the bait takes it under ocassionally cause when you get a BIG one it will kinda just slowly move away steadly as it's sinking Don't be afraid to use some big sunnies I've used palm sized ones already mix it up and see which size works better!!! But I didn't tell you this! lol! LIVE BAIT !!!!!!!!!

[surfrod]

Well went back yesterday evening with some popping flies and got my personal best lmb, probably in the 2 - 2 1/2 lb range, but a monster is still in there... At least one. I was broken off by a biggie, got a good look when he smashed, rolled and then broke me off.

I do know about live bait, know a guy who used his cast net together some sunnies, liveliness and then got a 10lber not too far from here ( a relative of mine ) in a pond you'd swear had nothing in it.

[surfrod]

still haven't found carp, but this little pond is fun for bass. though last night I couldn't buy a hit on flies but plastic worms dragged slowly were another story

[Mike S.]

I decided I wanted to try carping so I've started prebaiting a local spot on the Passaic. I'll report back when I actually start fishing it. Hopefully the Mosquitos don't suck the life out of me by then