carp fishing

[Cstew]

Does anyone do it? I have recently got interest in trying it out. I hear they can be a blast to catch. I've watched many euro method videos and some US, the rigs they use are wild. Another thing the distance you can get with some of those 12' rods from the bank is amazing. I was just curious if anyone on here fishes for the gold pigs...

[Halli]

As a young man (Teen) I lived next to the Old Hickory Bridge and fished once a week from the bank. I would catch massive carp with just yellow sweet corn (probably green giant) and it was a real blast to land monster carp
with cheap rod and reel.

Once a little older (20's) I ran a Heavy Truck Brake shop in Richmond Virginia and would catch carp on the James River using a small crappie hook with oatmeal when I was bored and the Laos that worked for me
would have rather catch the Carp than a Smallie haha. ;)

[XxthejuicexX]

I have tried it before with no success. I even tried to make my own boilies. I have heard fly fishing is where it's at. I have a friend who is going to give me a rod so I might just try it. I fish for gar and have a blast so I am sure carp would be awesome


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[Travis C.]

We have a couple of the best fly carp anglers around on here. Bd and saltwaterwalt. Bd wins the fly south carp tourney about every year but walt gives him a run for his money and has beaten him one year.

They would be where i started to understand fishing for them especially on the fly.

Anyone can chum them or shoot with a bow at night. Going one on one with a fly rod is hard to be beat anywhere for a freshwater challenge.

[Travis C.]

Sorry my response was catering towards fly.

Look for them working shallow mud flats early or late but be aware they are very spooky. Chum them with corn or small dog food pellets then just add a few to your hook. Bottom fish it and hold on. Some of the hardest fighting freshwater fish pound for pound.

[XxthejuicexX]

I might have to try that one night. I have a stretch of the river by my house where there are tons of carp, I'm thinking 6 or 8 pound spinning gear and a free ride in the kayak


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[Cstew]

What good swims around Nashville would be best to target carp? I'm guessing they are just about everywhere? I'm going to order me a euro setup soon to target the carp but for now I will just use my ugly stik catfish rod and okuma bait feeder. Once I get better with the fly I will try to use that to to catch them...like in the comments that should be the test.

[Travis C.]

http://flysouth.net/2014-carp-masters-tournament/

[FloatNFish]

http://flysouth.net/2014-carp-masters-tournament/

Holy cow...BD got first, second, and third place! Hahaha. I can't imagine fighting a 20lb carp on a fly rod.

Alex

[MNfisher]

277 pounds and 40 fish?? Nice job BD!!


Mike

[Adrian]

Sweet Corn and a Hair Rig is how I do it. Works like a charm!

[Travis C.]

Holy cow...BD got first, second, and third place! Hahaha. I can't imagine fighting a 20lb carp on a fly rod.

Alex

Those are big fish. There is a winner for biggest, smallest, ugliest and the person with the higest total weight for the month gets the carp masters jacket (like the masters but far uglier).

Looks like he may win but you never know until the last day. It's a month long tourney.

This was one of the best years I remember: http://flysouth.net/2012/08/01/2012-carp-masters-tournament-final-results/

[yak10asee]

When I was a kid, we fished at Tims Ford at my grandparents lakehouse. Pawpaw had carp fishing down to a science. He would put dry dog food in a potato sack, throw it in and tie it off to the dock. this would chum the fish up. We would put the same dry dog food on a hook and throw it out. I will never forget those days. It was nothing to see 20-30 carp at once. We also would Carolina rig dog food off of the bottom if we didn't chum.

[thehick176]

We would fish for them as a kid during the dog days of summer. We used Bran Flakes cereal, stuffed an old sock with the cereal and soaked it in the lake. Once its saturated squeeze all the water out and make a ball big enough to cover your hook. Lob it out there and watch your pole...I cant tell you how many poles I lost as a kid Lol.
I tried many different brands of cereal but the actual Bran Flakes worked the best.
One hint I can give you is to try and fish around places where people feed ducks and geese a lot. Usually don't take long to get your road ripped out into the lake.

[Saltwaterwalt]

Sorry for the late response, but I've been out trying to catch Dunigan on this July's carp tournament, he's TKO'd all of us this year...LOL.

Yeah, fly is a great way to catch them, but if you don't flyfish, I've had good success with a half a nightcrawler on a hook and small slip sinker. The sinker is to be able to cast it out, if you have a light rod and can get it out without a sinker, better yet. Target mudflats in the morning when they're feeding. They spook really easy, but sightfishing for them is my favorite way. The plan is to spot them coming and then cast in front and wait for them to intersect your bait. Let 'em inhale it and then sock it to 'em! They are a ball to catch.

[Cstew]

What type of flies work best for carp? I just learned how to tie a hair rig for my spinning setup. I have been using corn with no luck yet. I ordered some boilies, hopefully boilies or corn will land something. The setup I'm using now is a 7' ugly stik catfish rod, okuma abf 50 with 20# bg mono tied to a braid or mono hair rig. Once I get better with the fly I have a 4 and 6wt setup.

[Travis C.]

What type of flies work best for carp? I just learned how to tie a hair rig for my spinning setup. I have been using corn with no luck yet. I ordered some boilies, hopefully boilies or corn will land something. The setup I'm using now is a 7' ugly stik catfish rod, okuma abf 50 with 20# bg mono tied to a braid or mono hair rig. Once I get better with the fly I have a 4 and 6wt setup.

I would use your 6 for sure. You can catch them on big nymphs, crayfish patterns, crab patterns and woolly boogers. I would stick to a pattern that rides hook up. If you tie or start tying leave out the flash.

[hogdawg]

When I was a teenager, we would always go below OLD Hickory dam when the bass went on bed and would always catch lots of BIG carp on 6 pound test and light action rod. We would always use a commercially prepared carp bait you could buy in the local bait shops and it worked like a charm. There would always be Asians down there and they would run up the banks for a hundred yards with their huge dip nets to get the fish and they would even take them off the hook for you. Many days they couldn't even carry all the fish up the bank. Those were the days (when the bass were on bed:)).

[Saltwaterwalt]

Here's a carp I caught today on O.H., using a green woolie booger. Took about ten minutes to land him. Went a little over 11 pounds.

[Cstew]

Here's a carp I caught today on O.H., using a green woolie booger. Took about ten minutes to land him. Went a little over 11 pounds.

Nice one, I bet that was a fun fight.

[ditz1]

I generally flyfish the small creeks around Columbia and Spring Hill. I have yet to see any carp though I have see a few (very few) drum but have not caught one on the fly. I have noticed that most of you carpers seem to be up north. Does anyone know of any carp areas down here. I am not interested in any contest. I just want to get into some carp to throw a fly at. I haven't caught a carp in 50 years and would like to get re-interduced.

Feel free to pm me if you don't want to expose and area. I am a C&R kinda guy. The only fish that I have killed knowingly in the last 25 years is a saltwater species just cause I wanted to see how it tasted. It was quite good by the way. It was just as good as walleye.