Going Ike! Fishing for MONSTER Carp!

[MoCarp]

Not everyone thinks it cool to shoot them! some cool things coming to our area soon😎..... if Ike can so can you

 

 

[oneshot]

They was brought here for their meat too Bad people no longer have the taste for them.

We use to set Lines for them right along Catfish using Cottonseed Cake. Just don't see it anymore.

Bass are Good eating this time of year and pretty easy to catch.

oneshot

[MoCarp]

Bass are pretty easy to shoot too it seems

 

[oneshot]

11 hours ago, MoCarp said:

Bass are pretty easy to shoot too it seems

 

They won't let you shoot them here. There was a Guy Shot a Record Mirror Carp down at Bull Shoals.

oneshot

[MoCarp]

37 minutes ago, oneshot said:

They won't let you shoot them here. There was a Guy Shot a Record Mirror Carp down at Bull Shoals.

oneshot

that bass was shot illegally in AR, that guy has video on his FB even...I have pics of shot trout, walleyes and muskies, kinda like gigging "game fish" get hit all the time.

 Saw the bit about the big mirror shot, needless to say a few of my buddies are a bit miffed, one the fish isn't a record, just a BAA club record a group with less paid members than than the CAG group I have been in for 25 years and two that fish has been caught twice once when it was 14# and 24#  it is an easy fish to recognize being a linear...now no -one will ever catch it again tossed it the woods for the flies, I know the article was share on several carp pages including a few over seas, I'd bet a few choice e-mails and comments are getting made..one of the reasons I do not share spots or captures that can be tracked.

 

[oneshot]

6 hours ago, MoCarp said:

that bass was shot illegally in AR, that guy has video on his FB even...I have pics of shot trout, walleyes and muskies, kinda like gigging "game fish" get hit all the time.

 Saw the bit about the big mirror shot, needless to say a few of my buddies are a bit miffed, one the fish isn't a record, just a BAA club record a group with less paid members than than the CAG group I have been in for 25 years and two that fish has been caught twice once when it was 14# and 24#  it is an easy fish to recognize being a linear...now no -one will ever catch it again tossed it the woods for the flies, I know the article was share on several carp pages including a few over seas, I'd bet a few choice e-mails and comments are getting made..one of the reasons I do not share spots or captures that can be tracked.

 

Well MDC says it is a Record Alternative Carp for the State and it was Legally Taken.

If I had caught it on Rod and Reel it would still be dead because I would have cooked it.

oneshot

[MOPanfisher]

We used to eat a lot of carp.  Wish I had a nice medium sized one to bake right now.

[MoCarp]

38 minutes ago, oneshot said:

Well MDC says it is a Record Alternative Carp for the State and it was Legally Taken.

If I had caught it on Rod and Reel it would still be dead because I would have cooked it.

oneshot

the article says the fish was a shade under 33 pounds the state alt record is well over 50#, the BAA is not the state, its a bow fishing org that has few paid members but under 4k free ones (we have spies there to keep track of them) and they do the records thing so people will step up and pay, 

I have no issue with eating smaller carp but larger ones is like putting a knife to a 10# bass...that fish was well over 12 years old, bigger fish that avoid the Bfers only get stupid when spawning and are shallow and vulnerable.

bigger carp get pretty savvy, and rarely take a casual attempt at catching them, fish under 17 or 18# can be caught pretty easy, but even then will shell out lesser reels or spool you...if not they will get to brush and they are done,here is a dandy upper 30 by a friend of mine caught last week, he released it to be caught again a little bigger 

[oneshot]

Why have Spies ? Going a bit far.

Me I don't worry about records even on Deer, I went to have a Rack Measured and Guy doing the Measuring POed me, I grab my Rack out of his hands and never looked back.

Now if they are Big there is more Meat and that is all that matters to me.

oneshot

 

 

[MoCarp]

1 hour ago, oneshot said:

Why have Spies ? Going a bit far.

not really, it keeps us up on conflicts of interest, tabs on infiltrators who seek to find places to shoot bigger carp, since many Bfer tourneys allow trailering can earn them a nice big fish check even if it comes out of the freezer for weigh in,😮

also this quote kinda says it all

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

1 hour ago, oneshot said:

Now if they are Big there is more Meat and that is all that matters to me.

I understand that your goal (and many others) of fishing is #1 meat on the table and #2 fun, I would bet not many will show you their fav fishing spots, save a 5# smallmouth or in my case a 30# carp falls to your knife, just an observation