Phrustrating Philly Salmons

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Originally Posted by jmurr711

went back to the water i caught the nice largemouth catfish in Monday to try for some glamour species. Got there about 6:15 threw some chum & saw carps immediately. I could see em bubbling & swimming all over. I tried surface baits & no takes but could see them rooting in the chum but not taking hook baits. Killed some time with panfish, dink & SUPER DINK bass. finally got a great runoff & my rod is in the water! I got ankle deep to save it. Fought the carp for 7 minutes & hook pulls. as I am fighting him my other rod goes off but doesn't come tight.I get both back in the water 15 minutes i am hooked up & land a little guy after a nice fight with some great runs so much fun on light line. I had 3 more runoffs but the hooks pulled! Just one of those evenings going 1-5 in 2 hours but definitely alot of life swimming I must of saw 20 carp in the area so I am going to get them with m-80s if i got to!
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Hey Murr. What kind of line/leader you using for the small water salmon? I had a phrustrasting trip a couple weeks ago when the salmon were all up in my slick but wouldn't take my hook bait. Thought they may have been line shy to the braid I had on that I use for my river fishing. I'm gonna go back and maybe use mono or a long fluoro leader.