MoCarp

I have bought from all 3 below, the link on bottom is out of Oklahoma and I buy more from them because the keep earning my repeat business, the gear is now more available than ever, and at better prices, if I would have to say the most bang I got outa a purchase was bite alarms, you do not need to stand over your rods that way, maakes fishing MUCH more relaxed, at least until that 1st run on a beeper! http://www.royalcarp.com/Scripts/default.asp http://www.wackerbaits.com/ https://www.americancarpsociety.com/store/home.php

I grew up fishing shoal around the grand falls area, big maraboo muddlers and woolly buggers do well smallies in the riffles some BIG lots of spotted bass, a few largemouths, the pollution is over hyped in this area IMHO and the fishing by wading can be dangerous as the bottom can be greasy and the rocks sharp "chert" one of the few places you can catch cats on a fly regularly nice crappie and rockbass to be had--also a small population of trout not many but huge 'bows below the falls not much fishing done in that area considering the population so close--I have caught 50 bass in a day to 5 pounds in july buzz baiting from a float tube--use a 1/8 size with an oversize 3 wing clear prop blade white body, chunk it on a small 'caster with 10 pound line, and you can crawl that bait through a riffle--they will blast it, if your ar after smallies change the color brown/orange/black and the blade to black, I used that color in the rapids to catch big smalljaws, but thats another story...

below is a link to carp angling resourses--rigs baits LOTS of info by the best carp anglers in North America the hair rig/bolt rig will out catch the standard doughball/treble rig 25-1 and will get the bigger fish--go to the link below and look up hair rig and bold rig then try it sometime, those taps turn into fish with a hair rig look out though, that 1st run from a twenty and you will be hooked ito this whole euro carp thing like me zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz gads man I can't get enough of those smokin runs!!!!! CARP Angling Tutorials and Articles http://www.carpanglersgroup.com/carpingtips.html

yes, infact the carp club I belong to has a contest every new years, with prizes for carp caught during the coldest waters, its called the F.F.F http://www.carpanglersgroup.com/cagevents.html I have fished it the last couple of years and we have had mild weather, if its mild this year I thought I would try it again if anyone is interested "or foolhardy" to join some of us shoot a PM Mo

soak them in a 5 gal bucket of water, fill 1/2 with whole oats from the feed store, 1 packet of yeast, 1 cup sugar, fill with WELL WATER some of the oats will float, I just ad a coffie can of whole feed corn to the top to weight the whole lot down.--soak at least 3 days put a lid on loose and set in a cool dark place "garage" a 50 pound sack makes about 4 buckets, just about right for an avg lake point in the ozarks, use a boat a pour 2 of the buckets on a secondary point 1 bucket on the 1st break, the second on the next deeper one, also at the point I also pour 1/2 bag of 20% range cubes 2 days later chum the other 2 buckets and the other 1/2 bag of cubes on the 1st brake only fish 24 hours later, fish with crawlers for cats, corn hair rigged for carp

anything that looks like cottonseed duff when they are dropping also a purple wooly bugger under mulberry trees site fishing over a chum bed with a "corn" fly will get your arm ripped out, if you used sweet corn I can put you on some fish near Forsyth YOU MAY CATCH A STRAY TROUT OR TWO lol

cats are attracted to chumming as well, try whole oats soaked a day or 2

welcome!, work? whats that?

stockton can be great in winter, Jigging spoons off main lake points and deep humps produce great walleyes and smallmouths, how deep? anywhere from 40--75 feet, lake usally needs to turn over, but I am unsure if it stratifies much since they started pumping water to springfield's fellows lake--infact the fish seemed to sift much deeper since the pumping began... anyway any warm wet stretch in winter is great for the walleyes, crappie is good anytime, but last several years the crappie fishing is not what it used to be, with lake levels so low anyone can see why NO BRUSH, that lake needs a huge brush pyle project asap!!!

thats a LOT of gigging!--do you guide?--how many suckers can you take in a night?

lots of flys work, just depends what time of year best time is when they are feeding on cotton seed fluff on top, match that and a hook-up will be one you won't soon forget cheers Mo

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Well Saturday was an interesting day, only had 3 fishing, but had LOTS of visitors. I ran off with out my digital camera, and knew some one would land a bigone! sure enough, so I ran to the store and got a diposable one to take pics, but as Don landed this 20 pound class fish, his friend Leroy showed up with his digital camera, I will post some big fish pics and will have others once I get them developed cheers Mo

you must gig a lot to pony up the cost of a generator just for gigging how often do you go?

BUMP just a reminder for those to stop by looks like the weather will be kind Cheers Mo

as someone who visits other boards--THIS board is a great board & informative as well as entertaining, one reason it is growing keep good posters coming back, the rest will take care of its self if it was a straight fishing report only, what would be the fun in that? JMHO Mo

no not this time, but when we do a big one next summer, it will be part of it! they have a buffet thats reasonable $ Cheers Mo

Bump --looks like the weather will be good but its still early

6:30am Saturday November 4th Breakfast with fish-in starting at 8am Holiday Park Motel, Restaurant located at 3030 south Santa Fe Chanute KS the City Park and Lake are across the street

Flem, any forged hook should hold up, but there are a bazillions of patterns each with a purpose usually a specialized rig, below are some USA based carp Tackle vendors Wacker baits http://www.wackerbaits.com/ BigCarp Tackle "ACS" http://www.americancarpsociety.com:8080/ACS/home.jsp Resistance tackle https://www.resistancetackle.com/tackle/3/c...fishing-tackle/ Royal Carp http://www.royalcarp.com/ Scorpion Tackle http://www.scorpiontackle.com/ Missouri Bait Works http://www.missouribaitworks.com/ and for you Fly Guys that Carp http://www.madriveroutfitters.com/lpcarp.htm Flem you ought to come over to Chanute fish in, unsure where your located it could be a bit of a drive though. Till next time Mo

Sorry for the delay guys , I was at Hominy Oklahoma visiting carpers at the Big ACS tourney. a mom /son team from North Carolina were the winners took home just under $4k Big fish was I think 28 # and change. fishing was tough due to the heavy fishing pressure, and less than favorable weather. several teams landed no fish in 3 days, some no fish over 10 pounds which is the minimum to count I will get the name of the motel restaurant, its is right across the street from the park and the National Guard armory--we were meeting early there I will get the name from Don and post it today as a note Don chummed yesterday with 50 pounds of range cube, fish have been biting up to around 17 pounds, but bigger fish I am sure are there along with some Koi I home the weather will hold for us--also as a note a daily Kansas fishing permit is around 5 bucks Cheers Mo

man I didn't know the rock had shell crakers--cool!

Bump--looks like the fishing has been good --CAG member Don sheffer has caught some fish up tp 17# all on dough balls

Carthage--better suckers in shoal creek than spring river, plus eating them won't make you glow as bright in the dark! (that whole verona dioxin thing)

hey riverman where are you located?