Esox just a great report. Love reading posts like this. Kudos to you and tunanut. Awesome carp for the young man! Congrats!

Everyone should make it a point to take a kid fishing at least once a year. There's no better feeling, teaches kids so many important values and will be a life altering experience for many of them.

Just fyi, never tried the mulberries but next year is the next 17-yr cicada brood. Remember in 2004 when they were all over the South Mountain reservation, every fish in a reservoir, lake or the Passaic were gorging on them. Carp, bass, catfish, pan fish everything were keyed on them when they fell from the trees. Just grab one like muskynut mentioned, no weight, small hook through the thorax or abdomen, and just drop it next to the bank near a tree and hold on. Like dry fly fishing with a huge bug. 20 / 25 lb. carp would come up and just slurp them down. One of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Again Esox .........great post! You're a good man! I'm sure behind that bruiser of a carp was a mile wide smile......awesome!