MoCarp

will be meeting some early for b-fast if you are up for it about 630 or so

some times, the newly american drag nets and that scares what few bass are left out of a hole, bad this time of year with low water on holes with fish, sometimes l o n g casts are in order

this time of year, 1 inch white swiming minnows I use 2 lb and 16 oz black jighead with a bronze hook, for big fish, live craws or a g finish red head zara puppy--jigs in the ledge rock, pup in the riffles--I usally catch the biggest fish of the year now

gammy live bait number 4s & 2s, temco 2457's size 6 a hair rig works best, and you will put most of the fish you hook on the bank also going toe to toe with even an averager size carp is a tackle busting affair on most gear. any a non-forged hook is normally is history once hooked let them run out line.. as that 1st run is a sizzler, most of the reels I use have 200 yards or more line, we need it as a long run at the end of a long cast would be unforunate with a small line reserve! the rods we use are normally 12 foot and can cast 3-6 oz over 100 yards if you have a flipping stick and a 6500 abu it will work fine just keep your lead size smaller than 1.5 oz look at hooks and rigs,at the site below that will be a start www.carpanglersgroup.com hope that helps Mo

yes I will be there, look forward to meeting you Cheers Mo

Heres you chance to see all that wierd Euro Gear, Don't be shy, many use the old time dough ball and still do well!!! a few are going to fish, Saturday Nov 4th,8am till when ever, its all chummed up and the fish are biting!!! If you have any questions shoot a PM Cheers Mo See venue here

yep That is a wels, that euro fishing can be the bomb! imagin bankfishing and having that beast on th end of the line!

No, I am not fishing in this one and its all full "25 teams" 50 fisherman--but I am going down to visit friday night a peg is a pre-selected fishing spot--and you must stay in that peg area ( usally known good fishing spots are set up) the entry was $250 a head the guy that won $250k is fishing this year

American Carp Society Tournament of Champions (catch & released) October 25th -28th The competition will begin at 1 p.m. on the 25th, ending at 1 p.m. on the 28th. a 72 hour event. Hominy, Oklahoma Hominy, a 45 minute drive from Tulsa, has been prolific big fish water for several years now. Countless low thirties and even more 20’s have been landed. contestant teams of 2 anglers each & all their gear are boated to pegs around the lake. where they stay for a grueling 72 hours! Each team is allowed to have 1 pre-designated “Runner” The runner is not allowed to assist with playing the fish but is allowed to assist in the netting. and is used for food runs, or anything else needed. A fish must weigh over 10 lb. at the time the stewards weigh it to count on the total score. total weight of team is used to determine winners 1st place $4,000 2nd Place $3,000 3rd Place $2,000 Big Fish $1000 leader board link http://www.americancarpsociety.com:8080/ACS/acs_toc_2006.jsp

welcome!

I have fish a bit on the TN/TOM, had lots of great fishing, just keep an eye peeled for those barges!

we caught huge crappie "white perch" under lights in October one of my fondest memories is fishing that lake, it had some huge Bullheads in it. ever fish Paul B Johnson state park?

cool!

I grew up fishing flint creek, it still worth wetting a line? also did that guy who is the Mississippi state chair of the BAA, a national bow fishing organization, they held a tourney on lake Mary then he was busted when he illegally dumped a dumpster full of fish under the HWY 61 bridge even after he charged the tourney participants money for fish disposal did he ever get fined?

Wow where to begin, I feel the same way now-----since I was old enough to remember I have been an avid angler I am 46 years old now, and my attitudes about fishing has matured I grew up in Mobile Alabama practically on the dog river that flows into Mobile Bay I caught just about everything that swims in that bay some huge fish as well largemouth bass, redfish, sheepshead, speckled & white trout, mullet, croaker, black drum, flounder. My family camped on weekends so we spent many a trip into lakes in south east Mississippi for bull bream aka Bluegills, and white perch aka crappie--trips to the panhandle of Florida for giant shell crackers "read ears" and huge Florida bass that would make any guide on tablerock swallow his chew. when I was 16 we moved to Joplin Missouri because of my fathers job, and in looking for a house he new our families love of fishing and we got a house right on one of the biggest riffles on shoal creek--I was exited because I was going to fish for fish unavailable to me in the deep south rock bass, smallmouth bass, Spotted Kentucky bass --even walleyes and trout! where with in driving distance I learned new ways to fish and waded/floated untold miles of rivers--as a young man trips to canada rounded out my fishing experances--and now I am into the Euro. I have learned this in all my years of fishing--big fish of any kind are special. and even a vast seemingly endless fishery can be fished out of existence. The lowly croaker from 1-6 pounds was a common catch in the gulf when I was young, boney, most folks opted to keep other fish, when the folks discoved a way to flake the meat off the bones and make a delious crab cake like meal.. the fish where doomed--fishing for them has never been the same since--if that can happen in a body of water with billions of surface acres--makes you think

not to be a stinker but how many big smallies get giged? I am not a big fan of it due to the poaching factor in some areas-at a time of low water a stretch of river can be eliminated of its small mouths some bad apples will ruin a Ozark Tradition

They will, have for a long time ONE spring creek flows only on a banker's land I know not many folks get fishing this area--mostly private.. heard rumors of the MDC getting a stretch, hope its true--other than that, only way is to float-not easy CAUSE OF BRUSH

a small breeding population of bows are in the upper reaches of spring and its feeder creeks--those of us in the know usally keep mum about it ; ) bigges I have ever caught was 7 pounds and was released a very long McCloud Looking strain--I think some where introduced in the late 1880's

man, it just keeps getting worse I don't know why this keeps happening, when is enought enough? I saw once on TV a bunch of Japanese all fishing around a big tank on the second floor of a high rise,jigging tiny jigs with a small ice fishing rod every once in a while they would catch a tiger prawn or a tilapia and the attended would cook it up on the spot, I guess its comming here if we keep going this way, shame too as kids will never get to see how it was

Ditto!

I agree, I fish for everything, but many who bass fish have not made it here, ether that or they are out fishing and not online :ph34r:

if a 11 1/2 inch rainbow trout is released, how big will it be in say 6 months?

you have a Pm I stand corrected, Brits prefer Carp over their native Brown Trout as a preferd Quarry!

FWIW England is the United Kindom aka= U.K. not the E.U. or the European Union which Germany shares Boarders, remember WWII dunker, yadda yadda England is a Island and shares a boarder with no one besides the sea

England is and Island and "German Browns" come from...? Just like here non-native--in fact No trout are Native to any waters in Missouri, just think if the go-native pundents have their way we would tear out the dams, and stock the Snail Darter!!! the horse is out of the barn since we forever altered the waters of this land so "native" really has no other reason than to justify persecution considering what changes have been done since settlers 1st came here.