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Originally Posted by acabtp

Guy, that doesn't make any sense at all. If the other fishermen are practicing catch and release, no part of being successful with that involves the fish getting into a snag, so how could they learn it?

Hey, they are your fish to do with what you want, but at least give it a little more thought because your logic is missing a step or few. CPR does not teach fish to run into snags any more than any other angling.

When I first started fishing Carnegie Lake, I only did ultralight jigging. After a few years, I saw carp and no carp fishermen so I tried carping there and was very successful. Over the years, when other people saw me catch carp, they would come over to my spot and ask me about carp fishing. I told everybody everything that I learned about carp fishing, then every year intruders arrived at my spot and caught and released big carp. Until that time, I never had an issue with carp swimming into snags. I think that people who catch and release carp in heavily fished public fishing areas loaded with snags use line that is more than 12 lb test. When I hook a big carp with 12 lb test line, I can't stop it. When you apply maximum pressure with 30 lb braid, you can stop most carp. I give them a sporting chance but each year lately, a few immediately swim into a snag a few second after I hook it. This only happens in my one spot where other fishermen took over and ruined my carping.