Caught a bigger one

[NJ219bands]

Went carping in flooded, muddy 56 degrees Carnegie Lake this evening in the cold rain during a small craft advisory sou’easter and flood warning. Looked like little China when I arrived. Nobody was there when I left. Didn’t bring my 2 lb test ultralight jigging outfit because of the muddy flood. Threw out a can of ShopRite extra crispy whole kernel corn, then had a good bite on my 4 lb test outfit. After I yanked and reeled in my line, two hooks were missing. I stopped fishing with two rods. On my last cast of the day with my 12 lb test outfit, I hooked something that acted like a snapping turtle. It made bubbles and didn’t fight. I reeled in halfway to shore between two candock fields before it started acting like a fish and made a run to my right. It swam into the candocks where two fish broke my 4 lb test line last week. I got lucky and by giving slack then applying maximum pressure was able to pull the fish out of the snags. Finally landed my biggest fish for this year, a 17.5 lb gravid female common carp. Gave her to Wendy’s again.

[AndyS]

Wow !