Mother's day Surprise.

[Almaink]

Sunday morning I hit the D&R Feeder Canal in the morning in a different spot. I caught a 9 1/2" brown and then started talking with a guy dog walking his dog about carp fishing. He told me thats the only kind of fishing he does but he was new to the area and didn't know of any good places and could I suggest a few? I told him the canal is a good place and the Delaware river is even better if he wants big ones. As we were talking my smallest trout rod bent in half. I picked it up to find a large carp on the other end. Guess he hear us talking about them LOL. Anyway a real good fight on that light trout combo and I was glad I had re spooled with 6 lb. test. I had to set the drag real loose at first and he made several runs. I finally got him close enough for the guy I was talking to to grab him out of the water as I had no net and thank God he was there otherwise I would have had to cut the line I think. The hook was pretty deep so I cut the line and after hefting him to try and guess his weight I let him go. We figured him to be about 10 lbs. I also caught a couple of pretty nice channel cats 5-6 lbs. in there over the weekend also on night crawlers. Total for the weekend was 2 channel cats, 1 carp, 1 smallmouth bass, and 4 brown trout.