Originally Posted by NJ219bands (Post 356371)

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.