1st Carp Trip of the Year - NJFishing.com Your Best Online Source for Fishing Information in New Jersey

saxmatt · #1 03-01-2013, 07:19 PM

With the warm weather this week I decided it would be a good idea to stay off the ice and dust off the carp gear. I fished for 4 hours this afternoon and had a good start to the season. I ended up with 5 carp and 2 channel cats with no prebaiting. My first of the year was 18lbs and the others were 24,19,15, and 10. I was using a bread pack on the lead and 3 came on pizza dough for hook bait, 2 on sweet corn.

AndyS · #2 03-01-2013, 07:30 PM

Beautiful fish !! They spawn late in the season, correct ??

saxmatt · #3 03-01-2013, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by AndyS

Beautiful fish !! They spawn late in the season, correct ??

They spawn once the water reaches the mid 60s, which is usually mid to late May in NJ.

zhitoman · #4 03-01-2013, 07:58 PM

what part of jersey?

GetANet · #5 03-01-2013, 08:19 PM

Those are some monsters, didn't realize they started biting so early, I thought the water was still pretty cold but I guess when your HOT YOUR HOT! Nice Job!!!!!

saxmatt · #6 03-01-2013, 08:24 PM

They'll bite all year if you know what to feed them

Buschwacker · #7 03-01-2013, 09:42 PM

Great catch ... congrats!

FASTEDDIE29 · #8 03-02-2013, 04:59 AM

Wow!!! Nice fish buddy.

MaCe1 · #9 03-02-2013, 02:22 PM

Nice, those are some huge carp. Just curious - do you use pizza dough because it stays on the hook better, or because big carp like those like it?

saxmatt · #10 03-02-2013, 07:11 PM

I try a bunch of different baits, they just seem to want pizza dough right now. Tomorrow it might be corn, boilies, who knows.