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Originally Posted by dakota560
I've caught many carp albeit years ago at the Water Gap. many in the 20 to 30 lb range with the biggest going close to 45 lbs and pound for pound on the right tackle they are an absolute blast to catch and will testy your skills.
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Me too. This is going back like 20 years, but I used to routinely catch carp in the twenty pound range fishing in that area - one after the other.
I don't fish for carp on the Delaware anymore, but when I'm kayaking, I can see a decent number of carp swimming around. Especially right now when the water is crystal-clear.
I might be totally wrong about this, but from my own observations it appears the carp on the Upper Delaware aren't drawn to soft mud like carp I see other places. Other areas you'll see carp on the mud flats rooting around in the mud, but I don't see that up there.
Many of the carp I see in the Upper Delaware are hanging around areas where trees are in deep holes in the river. They hang out either in, on or just behind the tangle of wood.
They seem to move around a lot and will inexplicably school at random spots along the river. Maybe for no other reason than one is already hanging out there, so a few others join him which attracts more until a school forms.
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