Quillback

Yep, they make the Biffle Bug which I like for wobble heads. Never have used the Hoodaddy.

I think it is.

I like peas, even when I was a kid I liked peas. They grow above ground like an honest vegetable, not underground like those nasty root things. (except for potatoes which are perfectly acceptable).

Parsnips, turnips, rutabaga, beets - UGH!

Better than I did today, I caught 9 total, mostly spots. Got a couple early walking the dog, the rest on the Ned. Quite a few bass fishers out there today.

I must be holding my mouth wrong.

Are you swimming the Ned? I hardly ever catch a crappie on it, but I tend to fish it on the bottom, which may be the reason. But on the flip side, I do catch a walleye every once in a while, in addition to the bass.

Good stuff!

Bird dogs are real good at finding hidden critters. I've had several instances where a dog will get 'Birdy' on a patch of tall grass, a few feet away, and out pops a deer that without the dog finding it I would've walked right by and never knew that deer was there. Pheasants, especially hens, are real good at hiding in plain sight. I never saw skunks either or porcupines until I started bird hunting with dogs. These are two species of critter I would be happy to see disappear from the face of the earth.

What Champ said..

OK, I am fine with that. My only suggestion would be to keep it in the carp forum.

I'm an experienced fisherman and have caught many species of all sizes. Carp fishing does not interest me, it never will. Quite frankly, you're just adding additional spam to the spam MoCarp has generated on this. I hope you're better than that.

When I lived in Washington state I would sometimes explore small streams that were in the mountains, any stream there that had water year round, probably had trout. Only limiting factor was slope steepness, really steep streams with high velocity flow won't support fish, at least the sections on the steep terrain won't. It was fun to bushwhack your way to those small streams, small meaning you could step over them in some places, and catch trout. They weren't big at all, an 8" cutthtroat was a trophy. I'd have a short fly rod, have about 3 feet of line out and just dab a fly in likely looking spots, no casting, it was all about stealth, move up stream, keep a low profile, as long as you don't spook them they would always go for the fly. Most of those little streams were hardly ever fished if at all. It was fun to do every once in a while. And if I needed a big fish fix, I could go salmon or steelhead fishing. Best of both worlds.

That picture is awesome,

Ugh, hip injuries are a bear, good to hear you recovered and are losing weight. Ditch the Euro Carp gear and take up some type of fishing that will keep you moving around.

Where's all the other carp guys you claim are out there that I don't see? Showing old pictures of yourself holding carp, doesn't help the case you are trying to make that there's people out there, besides yourself, Euro style carp fishing. Locally.

Additional BS: then why the hate on carp or better carp fishing for those of us that do?

Yep no doubt a government secret operation. They're going to send two crate of guns and a crate of BassPro t-shirts to North Korea. In exchange the NK's will give up their nuclear program. That's my conspiracy theory and no one can disprove it. And if you did disprove it, I wouldn't believe you.

Hope you get into them! Being one that always checks the wind forecast before venturing out, I have learned that they seem to consistently under forecast wind speed. It almost always blows harder than the forecast.

I didn't say I hated them, I really don't care if they are in a lake or not. I just don't care. And I'll just say this, and others have said this also, you're not helping your carp cause by antagonizing people and making up BS. The best thing you could do is get out and fish for them, show us what you caught, how you caught them etc., ( and catching them locally, not in some Brit carp pond). I bet if you posted some reports, or had some of the other legions of LOCAL carp fishermen that you say are out there post reports on LOCAL lakes you might generate some interest. There's a Carp forum on OA, get your buddies that you claim are out there fishing these lakes to post some reports, tell us how it is done, show us those 30 lb. carp.

I've caught a few carp in my lifetime, and feel absolutely no desire to fish for them. Just not into bait fishing, and when I do fish bait, I'd rather chase bluegills, crappie, or cats.

I'm not a deer hunter myself, but good luck and looking forward to seeing the results.

I have not seen one single person on Beaver, Table Rock or numerous other lakes around here fishing with all the European carp gear. Let alone seeing Brits fishing for anything, though I am sure there are a few fishing the White. Could be a person or two that has a forked stick propping up a rod on the bank may be targeting carp, but I have yet to see one single person fishing with the Euro gear. And why would you? Who needs an alarm to tell you you've got a bite? Unless you passed out from boredom waiting 3 days for a bite, because apparently they spend hours preparing "ballies" (whatever they call them) to use as bait, but yet they can't get a carp to bite on them unless they fish for a week, heck, I ball up some wet Wheaties on a treble hook and maybe wait 15 minutes and ol' bugle mouth will be all over it.

Nice one! Me and a buddy were out there today, we caught 15 but only one was a keeper largemouth. My buddy lost a pretty good sized tiger striped smallmouth right at the boat. We were doing the Ned and jig thing. Didn't see one other bass boat on the water today, saw a rig at the launch but didn't see them out on the lake.