Carp fishing

[BottomBouncer13]

I know there are a few sharpies on this board. I'm struggling to learn the carping game. Is there any sites or books I can find for more info.

[briansnat]

here

[Eskimo]

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I learned carp fishing mostly by reading In-Fisherman magazine back in the 80's and 90's.

They still occasionally have decent articles about carp fishing:
http://www.in-fisherman.com/carp/

I grew up near the Passaic River in Union County back when carp and yellow bullheads were the only thing that could survive in its foul, noxious, polluted waters. There were plenty of carp, but they spooked easily in the shallow water. You learned to sneak around the river bank like you were hunting deer.

If you were really stealthy, you could throw a bait right in front of a grazing carp. But most of the time, you followed these steps:

1) Prop your rod up in a forked stick.
2) Throw a handful of sweet corn out as chum.
3) Bait your hook with a few kernals and cast into into the area you chummed.
4) Sit down, open a beer, and watch your line for movement.

Over the years I made a lot of refinements to that strategy, but basically that's it.

I'm not as patient as I used to be. Now I don't fish for carp unless I actually see a shoal of carp drawn to a particular area.



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[jmurr711]

find a spot where ya know hey feed alot of times when our bass fishing you'll see em rooting around. throw some corn a that spot for a few days but do not fish it, then go with the smallest egg sinker atached to a snelled 6hook with a few kernels of corn & i use a marshmallow if the lakes weedy to pop the bait up a bit out of the bottom weeds. set the dag looooooossssseeeeee wait for your rod to go in the water lol

[Almaink]

They like night crawlers too. The biggest ones I've caught this year were all on big night crawlers. No chumming necessary.