I need therapy!!!!!!!
 

I need to hear some drag ripping! I need to feel the weight of a fish on the end of my rod! Man, it's been a long winter and it's really not over yet. I can't even go to my UC Crappie and Perch spot because it's still frozen. WOW, does anyone know a good Therapist or Psychiatrist??? I need some of this in my life, LIKE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!! HELP, HELLO, HELLO HELP!!!!!!! Does anyone out there know what I'm talking about! I need that feeling!!!
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Nice smallie, yeah the ice is fun but I wanna cast.

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Ahhhh...I can smell the marsh and bogs now! Soon enough... Soon enough. The linesiders will be with us shortly!

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I know the feeling..LOL Sweet fish! Big river smallies moving around verrrry sooon!!!!

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Lol just left that first spot! Dead and dirty going for the honey hole now!

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Yeaaa man hopefully wel get into some action soon dying for some striper nuggets 😛 let the games begin boyz!

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Sweet pics. I'm starting to look forward to the spring carp bite. You should join me on a few trips this spring so you can post a pic of a giant carp this time next year.

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Nice looking fish man!

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Ha....soon man soon...the glacier in my backyard is down to 4 acres in size so it should take until June to melt! I might just go cast a crank bait into my chain link fence just feel something pull back!!!

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no worries eddie,we will be casting in now time.:D

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Next weekend eddie, big D will be fishable its already opened up, and RV in 10 days or so, get that new line on ur reels buddy, my boats are getting summerized this saturday

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Plan on hitting that myself on Saturday, just need to wet a line and if i actually catch something, thats just gravy....Everyone be safe out there, water levels will be hi, and rivers will be raging.

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soon enough, but I wouldn't mind one last weekend on the ice.

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RJDUBS, you catch that monster Pike yet? I'll be getting salty with some bay Stripers starting this weekend. Hopefully they'll be hungry!

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Gonna give it one last effort this weekend before the ice is gone... Hopefully I'll have a picture to prove it

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I talked to Fred's and he said the bay is 40 degrees and guys have been catching a few fish. I'm gonna shoot for one last hurrah on the ice on Tuesday and try the bay with my buddy on the 23rd. After that I hope the ice is gone and I'll forget that everything else exists except for muskies until the ice comes back. April is a tough month for muskies, but it'll still be good to be on the deck of my boat casting lures. And btw way buddy, I told you where to find you're therapy, right in your backyard. Got my first open water fish of the year this week. Game on!
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Good luck man. I hope you get a monster!

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This isn't very manly to say, but that Carp is very pretty! Was down scouting some areas today. Talked with Fred this morning when I was down there looking for a new bait runner. Fish are there, just need the full moon to pass. Water temp was at 44 yesterday but went down to 36 last night. Its go time very, very soon. YEA BUDDY!!!!

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That's okay, you can say it. Thanks man. It felt fantastic to have a rod bent and some drag ripping. Just took a drive and some of the other stuff in that area is starting to open up. Lots of options.

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Beautiful carp! That's a species on my hit list for this summer.

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Thanks man. I started messing around with them a few years ago, and once I realized I could drive 5 minutes from my house and catch 10-20 pound fish that sometimes peel 70 yards of line off, I got hooked. I have no idea why more people don't fish for them. They are a total blast.

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I couldn't agree more, well said Mark.

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Got to love those Carp and they can thrive practically anywhere. We had a pond in our area growing up... We called it a pond but it was more like a drainage ditch and it was practically polluted with them. A lot of fun to catch and like Mark said even better they were so close by... Come home from school, mix up some flour, water and honey, cast out your pole, reel in the slack. lean it on a stick and wait for the twitch.

One year up in the 1000 Islands in the early spring we were fishing one of our favorite Pike bays and happened upon their spauning grounds. We were casting around for the Pike in the reeds and all of a sudden we see the tops of the reeds near the shoreline moving. At first we thought maybe a Muskrat or something.
We go in closer to check it out and see all these HUGE 20 lb plus carp doing their business. Saw this once up on Spruce Run too.

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Carp are a blast...Spruce is loaded with them...but I'm usually so friggin' amped up and focused on casting for "anything" that I never take the time to target them. Gotta hit that lake sometime with nothing but Carp Bait and a couple rods to force myself to do it...there's some submarines in there for sure.

First Carp experience was when my son was about 7...we were fishing the canal at Duke Island Park for sunnies...real tiny ones with corn...catching about 1 a minute. Then I think he is snagged because the little rod bends in half when he sets the hook.....few minutes later about a 3 lb carp comes to the surface. Not big for a carp but when you're 7 and have been catching 2 oz sunnies and that thing comes out of the water...it was like he caught a Blue Marlin.....Man there aint nothing better. He was talking about that fish for a month.

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Cheers to you first open water catch of 2014!

Nice fish my friend! Looks healthy, Old Man Winter was kind to that Carp!

I myself, took a few casts into the mighty PR...didn't get a thing, but boy is it nice to fire some jigs and jerkbaits out there!

Eddie we all need therapy, don't feel bad...My head feels like an unsafe neighborhood, and I don't want to go in there alone;):D

Go...NJFishing