FAMOUS LAST WORDS (Trophy Carp Regs)

[MoCarp]

6 minutes ago, Gavin said:

Finally figured out the ignore user settings. Life is better in a Carp Free Zone.

 

[Al Agnew]

I admire a guy with passion for his sport.  And I know carp are very strong fighters (though they almost never jump).  And I know they can be challenging.  But they are just plain ugly.  And not native.  And I know trout aren't native to most of the places where they are caught, too, but at least they're pretty and they live in mostly beautiful places.

So while I think we should cut MoCarp some slack, don't expect me to be a champion of carp. 

[Smalliebigs]

15 hours ago, Gavin said:

Finally figured out the ignore user settings. Life is better in a Carp Free Zone.

Hahahaha I feel the same way about trout for the most part, other than trout big enough to chase a jerkbait

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9 hours ago, Smalliebigs said:

Hahahaha I feel the same way about trout for the most part, other than trout big enough to chase a jerkbair

Hater

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Mocarp is like sgt burns on Mash. You gotta have a bad guy to complete the show

[Gavin]

He is not Abbott, he is Costello

 

[SpoonDog]

15 hours ago, MoCarp said:

Can you say any Brit you ever met that came to the states and went nuts fishing for bass?....once you go carp you never go back!

I have.  And you can't swing a sack of dead kittens out west without hitting a Brit, a German, a Dane, a Frenchman, or someone else from The Continent fishing for wild trout- doing something they can't do at home.  There's carp in Colorado, in Wyoming, in Montana- and European tourists aren't knocking down doors to get at them.  Perhaps that tells us something.

But maybe you're right.  Maybe tomorrow or next week or next year every single Texas resident will not only take up fishing, but will buy the rods,the reels, the hooks, the High Nutrient Boilies, the little slingshot deal, the rod holders, the bite alarms, the net, the sling, and the mini trampoline job to go fish for carp, thereby swamping expenditures for all other sportfish species.  It sounds like magical thinking to me, but maybe you're right.

 

Best of luck.

[fishinwrench]

14 hours ago, Al Agnew said:

I admire a guy with passion for his sport.  And I know carp are very strong fighters (though they almost never jump).  And I know they can be challenging.  But they are just plain ugly.  And not native.  And I know trout aren't native to most of the places where they are caught, too, but at least they're pretty and they live in mostly beautiful places.

So while I think we should cut MoCarp some slack, don't expect me to be a champion of carp. 

Yeah that's my position as well.   I wanna like the guy but he keeps answering questions that nobody is asking, and turning every possible conversation into something about carp. And now here he is trying to make the case that other fish are no better than carp.    I've never hit the ignore button on anybody, and I really don't wanna do it on him because I value some of his input.   But dang!   

MoCarp, your crusade is having a backward effect, it is making many of us despise carp even more than we did before.  Please don't make me start fishing for them just so I can stomp them into the mud and laugh like a maniac while doing it.

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1 minute ago, SpoonDog said:

I have.  And you can't swing a sack of dead kittens out west without hitting a Brit, a German, a Dane, a Frenchman, or someone else from The Continent fishing

Same thing happened to me in Arkansas on the white.  A couple from Great Britain asking a bunch of questions. 

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3 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Please don't make me start fishing for them just so I can stomp them into the mud and laugh like a maniac while doing it.

I'm thinking about putting together a bow fishing tourney.