Went carping in 59 degree Carnegie Lake this evening in the cold rain. Air temp was only 53 degrees. I could see my breath when I exhaled. Threw out a can of whole kernel corn 🌽 for chum, then caught and released a pumpkinseed sunfish with corn bait on 4 lb test line. Landed and released a 13” gravid female brown bullhead next. Then a big fish swam into the candocks to my left, broke my 4 lb test line and stole my three hooks. I stopped using my 4 lb test outfit after that. When I lost my jig to a snag, I stopped fishing with my 2 lb test outfit. On my last cast of the day with my homemade corn meal bait on a #8 red treble hook on the end of my 12 lb test line, I landed a 12 lb common carp. I applied maximum pressure at all times and managed to pull it out of the candocks several times. If my line broke, I would have fallen over backwards. The fish 🎣 was only lightly hooked with one of the trebles. I was very fortunate that the hook didn’t pull out. Landed 4 carp in my Carnegie Lake flood spot this week. Found a Canada goose egg 🥚 on the bottom of the lake.
NJ219bands wrote:
Went carping in 59 degree Carnegie Lake this evening in the cold rain. Air temp was only 53 degrees. I could see my breath when I exhaled. Threw out a can of whole kernel corn 🌽 for chum, then caught and released a pumpkinseed sunfish with corn bait on 4 lb test line. Landed and released a 13” gravid female brown bullhead next. Then a big fish swam into the candocks to my left, broke my 4 lb test line and stole my three hooks. I stopped using my 4 lb test outfit after that. When I lost my jig to a snag, I stopped fishing with my 2 lb test outfit. On my last cast of the day with my homemade corn meal bait on a #8 red treble hook on the end of my 12 lb test line, I landed a 12 lb common carp. I applied maximum pressure at all times and managed to pull it out of the candocks several times. If my line broke, I would have fallen over backwards. The fish 🎣 was only lightly hooked with one of the trebles. I was very fortunate that the hook didn’t pull out. Landed 4 carp in my Carnegie Lake flood spot this week. Found a Canada goose egg 🥚 on the bottom of the lake.
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Those carp are bulldogs bands, must have been a blast.
flyguy
Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!
NJ219bands wrote:
Went carping in 59 degree Carnegie Lake this evening in the cold rain. Air temp was only 53 degrees. I could see my breath when I exhaled. Threw out a can of whole kernel corn 🌽 for chum, then caught and released a pumpkinseed sunfish with corn bait on 4 lb test line. Landed and released a 13” gravid female brown bullhead next. Then a big fish swam into the candocks to my left, broke my 4 lb test line and stole my three hooks. I stopped using my 4 lb test outfit after that. When I lost my jig to a snag, I stopped fishing with my 2 lb test outfit. On my last cast of the day with my homemade corn meal bait on a #8 red treble hook on the end of my 12 lb test line, I landed a 12 lb common carp. I applied maximum pressure at all times and managed to pull it out of the candocks several times. If my line broke, I would have fallen over backwards. The fish 🎣 was only lightly hooked with one of the trebles. I was very fortunate that the hook didn’t pull out. Landed 4 carp in my Carnegie Lake flood spot this week. Found a Canada goose egg 🥚 on the bottom of the lake.
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Good morning, bands, thanks for sharing.
NJ219bands wrote:
Went carping in 59 degree Carnegie Lake this evening in the cold rain. Air temp was only 53 degrees. I could see my breath when I exhaled. Threw out a can of whole kernel corn 🌽 for chum, then caught and released a pumpkinseed sunfish with corn bait on 4 lb test line. Landed and released a 13” gravid female brown bullhead next. Then a big fish swam into the candocks to my left, broke my 4 lb test line and stole my three hooks. I stopped using my 4 lb test outfit after that. When I lost my jig to a snag, I stopped fishing with my 2 lb test outfit. On my last cast of the day with my homemade corn meal bait on a #8 red treble hook on the end of my 12 lb test line, I landed a 12 lb common carp. I applied maximum pressure at all times and managed to pull it out of the candocks several times. If my line broke, I would have fallen over backwards. The fish 🎣 was only lightly hooked with one of the trebles. I was very fortunate that the hook didn’t pull out. Landed 4 carp in my Carnegie Lake flood spot this week. Found a Canada goose egg 🥚 on the bottom of the lake.
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Nice fish, good catching. Always good to see your pics and description of events. Thank you for sharing.
thats bigger than any carp i have caught
Nice catch. I'll bet that was a fun fight!
That must have been a dogged battle!
Classic reel by the way!
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