[Aussie Carp report]

Go away Moses from byron bay, here is an interesting fact it is against the law to record tv programs and music off the radio..but i am sure you do it. Far as i am concerned you can can't be forced to kill anything!

[Aussie Carp report]

That's a shame mate that people are doing that especially when you thought it was a nice and quiet place!

[is it a good idea]

I would support it definately, i miss it alot. Yeah you had to pay but the benefits were good i.e. security for your car, no rubbish covered banks, etc.

I would be keen to join if the oppurtunity came up!

[Maybe it was just that I planned a baiting campaign?]

The market for safe carp gear in Oz is non existent. That's why there is a large replacement net for a triangle set up right next to me at the moment. I thought that I'd be able to use the fiberglass spars from a tent to spread it and get the spreader bars made up. Unfortunately, the tent spars aren't long enough.

Looking at it though, the sides appear to be slightly smaller than the one we already have. The base is very fine mesh.

It might come down to getting a huge open mouth one from the local supermarket and stitching shade cloth into it.

 

At least I can make it to what I want. There won't be any fast netting movements and I'll probably pick sieve krill from the water...

 

Why don't you just buy one of the internet and get it shipped to oz, the way the dollar is its cheap as. Homemade never compares to the real deal.

[Its only taken me 9 months to catch this...]

Well done old chap, worth the wait and i hope you had a proper social that night aka jim shelley style

[Running rig and baitboats.. avoiding tangles]

I know it seemed like a silly question but the reason i asked was because normally when i cast these rigs i feather the cast so the hooklink kicks straight from the lead. I was just thinking with the boat, that it dumps the whole lot straight from the hopper with the reduced velocity as what a cast would hence my question about tangles. Ok it seems that most people here have used a running rig in a boat and had no problems. I have been stuck in old ways using the lead clip set up and now the fish are definately getting a bit riggy on my lake so i thought a running lead in conjunction with slack lines might increase my chances.

In relation to the actual running rig itself are you guys fishing shocker style with a stop bead or true running rig style?

[Running rig and baitboats.. avoiding tangles]

Just wondering if anyone here uses running rigs with baitboats? The reason ia sk is because i am thinking about switching to a running rig but however i am concerned about possible tangles with the lead is being released from the boat. Any personal experiences anyone with this scenario?

[Bread and cheese mush vs Boilies Mk1 and 2]

Nah i ask that, because i am not going to bother reading your posts or pass along tips too you because ultimately you are going to kill the fish & go against the ethos of everyone on this site!

[Bread and cheese mush vs Boilies Mk1 and 2]

Being not quite the full moon, but close enough to it, my standard carping companion and I hit the lake today to see what having something like a plan would do for our success rates.

 

Upon arrival we spooled up the feature finding rod with some yellow braid and then spent some time trying to figure out why the lake appeared significantly shallower than I knew it to be. Other than the realisation that it was the wrong fifty percent of the chances of rigging a float and sinker correctly, we then had to try and overcome the tendency of the jury rigged sinker of twisting the braid. Once that was overcome by letting it sit down onto the float swivel, things went a little more smoothly.

 

By absolute luck, my fishing buddy had bought the 10 foot general purpose rod from Kmart that I thought might work well as a cheap spodding rod. With some very thin 50lb braid on it and the marker float showing a break in the weeds, a few test casts saw the line clipped and we proceeded to pepper one particular area almost exactly two metres to the right of the marker float with tuna oil flavoured laying pellets.

 

Once the correct technique for stopping the spod gently was perfected, splashdown stayed within a reasonable area.

Despite my best efforts, even aiming off provided little difference to where the spod deposited carp snacks.

 

We figured that it was just a reference point and so managed to cast the Mk 1 and 2 boilie into the target areas with little problem

 

But for four hours.... nothing.

 

Then the kneaded cheese recipe was dusted off. 1/4 of a slice of processed individually wrapped cheese kneaded through 3 crustless white bread slices.

 

With some exercise which is sure to develop forearms like popeye, we soon had some boilie sized chunks in our cheesy smelling hands.

 

The first cast proved that a boilie stop wouldn't work so much as retard the little dough ball slightly on it's way to choke a seagull on the bank on the other side.

 

A quick look around proved that the common everyday garden variety small bit of stick worked superbly to keep the ball on the hair rig.

 

So we switched to this bait and within half an hour, had a specimen reaching not quite 5 kg in the net.

 

I managed to have two hook links let go on me, unravelling through the swivels on both rods. Much to my astonishment. One fish we almost had in sight before it turned and just accelerated away like a Monster truck towing Kylie Minogue through a six inch pool of rice pudding.

 

All on bread. Eventually I banked a little fellow that fought far over his weight limit of just over 2kg and then found a big silvery shimmer grazing contentedly in the torch light.... with no rod, of course.

 

It wasn't a bad day out. Might do it again tomorrow.

 

We did discover that taking a compass heading on the marker float can be quite a good idea.....

 

Just a question, are you still killing your fish?

[Aussie Carp Fishing - the way forward.]

Here here Chris! I have had the chance to fish with some of the Cag members and all i can say that they have done wonders for the past time in the states. From a handful of expats it has now grown to about 8000 members plus other off shot societies as well. Carp fishing is big business now, tackle, guided trips, etc. Australians just don't realise how much money they could make having carp tourists coming to their shores... hell parts of spain would be totally stuffed if they didn't have these tourists coming in!

[Some slight success in Lake B-G, Canberra]

I must admit i do have a problem with seeing dead carp on this forum, i moved to oz and to hell with their stupid rules. I'll continue to use my unhooking mat and treating my catch with care.

[how heavy should you fish]

NICE TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE SENSIBLE ANGLERS ABOUT ,THAT DONT FISH TOO LIGHTLEAVING HOOKS LINE ETC IN THE POOR OLD FISH.NOW I AM GOING TO GIVE MYSELF UP NORMALY I FISH 11LB STRAIGHT THRU .BUT SOMETIMES I USE 50LB SPIDERWIRE & GET BUSTED ON IT.TOLD YOU I WASNT MUCH OF A FISHERMAN .MATCHFISHING TATICS ARE GOOD FUN FOR SMALL CARP BUT?.TROUBLE IS THAT WE GOT TOO MANY BIG CARP HERE ISNT IT SAD .CHEERS MACBILLY

 

Caps lock off is my first bit of advice! I fish 30lb braid for all my carping, i fish at range most times though we are talking 120 yards plus! Not sad bros about having big carp in oz, i like the fact that the locals are not interested as gives me plenty of quiet waters to fish!

[Carping over Christmas]

What sort of temperatures are you guys likely to experience over the coming weeks, and does temperature affect the carp fishing much?

 

Ian

 

Ian it can really depend on what state you are in, i am down south in melbourne and we have had a couple of weeks of very hot weather which has really warmed the waters which have not been fishing too well. The best sessions i have had have been on nights of quite muggy weather and the fihs have been abit more active.