In the Midst of it all

[MoCarp]

After reading the B.A.S.S. Rule Change thread it struck me as why I shifted my focus on the outdoors and as people do what we do, In tourneys of all kinds, I was always competitive, but practicing for that bass tourney was work, forcing the issue trying to sneak in a bass or 3 while the walleyes were tearing it up, or fishing a company crappie contest, and the bass were going nuts..... I fished for FUN and to relax....the solitude of wading a Qzark Creek, catching Smallmouth on a tiny ultralight, watching a King Fisher plunge head first into the water then fly up and land on a branch 2 feet from your face, beating his dinner in the head so it quits flopping, or marvel at Mr Mink as he quickly patrols the nooks and crannies of a spring fed stream....

Trout fishing, fly rod in hand never became the national tourney crazy like bass or redfishing on the coast. Perhaps because it's is best when its you wading on a foggy morning with fish dimpling the surface, much simpler and satisfying, but here our trout fishing is a more crowded affair, shoulder to shoulder at a Missouri Trout park, the blare of the opening horn allowing you to fish like some flintstones quarry horn.... to drudge away the day, mindless.... till we can leave work to do what makes us happy......or trying to fish and a Branson jet boat roars by... or the the glow of the landings lights off in the distance, the unmistakeable din of humanity  ruins the magic that was Taney in the past.......

Perhaps thats why I started carp angling..easy to find a place to fish in solitude, a billion little things to never let fishing for them to be mechanical and mindless....Carp angling is an act of defiance, to resist the ills of what much of angling has become, reconnecting to the soul of fishing..perhaps thats why I share, to let others reconnect to why we all started fishing...

[Blll]

Mo, We used to live on a small river just outside of Chicago. Learned to carp fish with my home made doughballs and hair rigs. What a fish to hook in 3-4 fow . Not quite a striper run but surely more fight than most anything else swimming. 25# my best. Live on Beaver now and see monsters every day. I've not tuned in to any Ozark carp fisherman and I'm at a loss as how to target them on this great body of water. Any carp clubs around?

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10 minutes ago, Blll said:

I'm at a loss as how to target them on this great body of wate

Chum them up.

[MoCarp]

37 minutes ago, Blll said:

Mo, We used to live on a small river just outside of Chicago. Learned to carp fish with my home made doughballs and hair rigs. What a fish to hook in 3-4 fow . Not quite a striper run but surely more fight than most anything else swimming. 25# my best. Live on Beaver now and see monsters every day. I've not tuned in to any Ozark carp fisherman and I'm at a loss as how to target them on this great body of water. Any carp clubs around?

Beaver is pretty much untapped but like anywhere new.... binoculars and watch for crashing fish in an area you can set up on the bank....chumming with boiled feed corn with a spoon full of crushed red pepper...scatterd where you will be set up 2-3 days before you fish.... dough-balls still work but hair rigged corn lands more fish..usually a good place to start....as far as clubs yeah...CAG has a few of us around....most are pretty tight lipped as if we go blabber mouth... we can count on a Bow fishing rig to show up (or divers) and spoil our plans...but we have a couple guys that hit beaver...but any area with a comfortable bank where you see the fish is fair game....I read somewhere AF&G stocked Israeli carp in Beaver the late 60's to eat filamentous algae, so Beaver may have more mirror carp than we normally see...below is a vid from dale hollow...a fishery that is much like beaver......you used to catch fish like that in TR... not anymore....the big Bfing events held around here pretty much killed it...same thing is happening to the Fly fishing for carp guides on beaver island lake MI....