Carp fishing in the US

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Good pic's dirtwinger

[craigos1234 17]

if the corns catching stick to it..

av a word with other local anglers.. get there opion..

wa i wuld personally do is ledger one rod with a hair rig and use fake corn.. ensuring that your feeding it loads.. obviously those big carp love to eat..

if your missing bites off big carp coz yr afraid they can feel the hook! make yr hair longer!.. as carp suck the hook up.. they'll catch them selfs then.. i use this method alot and it seems to work i dont think boilies are the answer.. maybe use maze? hemp as feed tiger nuts? look for sources of natural food aswell

and good old bread if there on topp

good fishingg x

 

Edited September 16, 2009 by craigos1234

[dirtwinger 235]

if the corns catching stick to it..

av a word with other local anglers.. get there opion..

wa i wuld personally do is ledger one rod with a hair rig and use fake corn.. ensuring that your feeding it loads.. obviously those big carp love to eat..

if your missing bites off big carp coz yr afraid they can feel the hook! make yr hair longer!.. as carp suck the hook up.. they'll catch them selfs then.. i use this method alot and it seems to work i dont think boilies are the answer.. maybe use maze? hemp as feed tiger nuts? look for sources of natural food aswell

and good old bread if there on topp

good fishingg x

 

I am still feeling my way into what works here in New Mexico on the Rio Grande, I am trying to find more good spots to fish. The river is largely very shallow in many places you can wade across and it will rarely go over your knees and some places not over your ankles. There are carp pretty much everywhere but finding the spots that hold the real big ones is tricky. Nobody fishes for carp in New Mexico, I am probably the only angler concentrating on carp in an area larger than the whole of England.

I may have to go to a hair rig as far improving bites goes, I still dont have any real carp gear I am muddling through with crap American tackle.

I went and tried a new spot last weekend with so so success. Main problem was Soft shell Turtles I caught seven of them, on corn, bread, worm and crawfish. The carp were there in small numbers I caught four the smallest about 6oz the largest about 3 or 4lb. I know there are big fish around perhaps upto 40lb but I need to find the spots that hold them. By next season I will hopefully have sussed it it and have better gear. Here are few pics from the weekend.

River here was mostly shallow with a fast deeper channel in center I fishing an eddy in front of an island

Soft shell Turtle

Biggest carp I caught on bread.

My girlfriend with a turtle she caught, you can see the eddy I was fishing maybe 3ft deep in the still water.

 

all the best Terence