psychodiagnostik Posted October 8, 2019 Report Share Posted October 8, 2019 Hi, I've been fishing for wild carp most of the past year, getting more and more into it after a lifetime of fishing here in USA. I've caught everything from bass, to trout on the fly, to sharks to seven feet in the surf, but carp has become quite the obsession & I've cared little for any other fishing during the last few months. I've been experimenting with different techniques, mostly method feeders in local creeks, lakes & rivers, using my bass & catfish gear with end tackle and bait from bigcarptackle.com . My PB is currently 14lb common. I've only caught one mirror compared to 15 commons, a small scaled one. Interestingly, we have a carp "scene" here in my state of NC, the "paylakes". They're small heavily stocked ponds that involve mini-tournaments. So carp fishing isn't totally unheard of in my area, but fishing for wild carp is extremely rare. I've not yet met another carp angler on my local rivers or lakes. I love learning about all the legendary UK venues via YouTube, podcasts & forums. I was fascinated by UK carp fishing as a kid when I found a book about it at our local library as an 8 year old, years ago, but then I forgot about carp until recently and rediscovered it with the help of the Internet. I loved the bank fishing taken to high art, unlike the local bass fishing scene, it was similar to the fishing that I did from the bank of my grandmothers farm pond for bullhead catfish and bluegill. I'm hoping one day to make it to the UK to wet a line. Anyways, I hope you all don't mind me lurking and posting occasionally in the Europe forums! elmoputney, Carpbell_ll, finchey and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmanstevo Posted October 8, 2019 Report Share Posted October 8, 2019 Welcome aboard 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finchey Posted October 8, 2019 Report Share Posted October 8, 2019 Hi and welcome along to the forum. It's nice to hear stories of other people's fishing and hopefully we will see some photos as well. 😁👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpyian Posted October 8, 2019 Report Share Posted October 8, 2019 welcome pal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychodiagnostik Posted October 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 3 hours ago, finchey said: Hi and welcome along to the forum. It's nice to hear stories of other people's fishing and hopefully we will see some photos as well. 😁👍 Thanks for the welcome! Here's some pics from this year. Cats are a fact of life fishing on the bottom here, especially in summer. I've not found a bait they don't like, even fake corn. finchey, elmoputney, snowmanstevo and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmoputney Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 Hi Welcome to the forum There are some great Carl and Alex Videos where they fish in America all really enjoyable and worth a watch if you haven't seen them, I loved watching these ones though the fishing seems really wild in comparison to here finchey and Its-grim-up-north 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobcross Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 Hi and a welcome to the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salokcinnodrog Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 Welcome to Carp.com. A whole section devoted to fishing in North America, and your US moderator Buzzbomb is pretty knowledgeable on fishing over there. https://forum.carp.com/forum/7-north-american-carp-forum/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpbell_ll Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 Hi love hearing about carp angling in the US ever since i read a report from the lads on Macarthur park in LA they call themselves the California Ghetto Carping club they had a unknown 50lb common out of a small park lake in the middle of LA, so you definitely have some very good unkon big carp out there. Looking into to it further it turns out carp are used in irrigation canals to help keep them clear of silt and weed, anglers are allowed to fish for them but have to put them back to do their job. seems there is a lot of carp in the canals of Imperial County. ☺️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpbell_ll Posted October 9, 2019 Report Share Posted October 9, 2019 This is the area i was on about, i know it's not near you but there are going to be some biggies around there the guy in this video mentions he can only see some big carp when out lure fishing,. Check those far bank margins, bit of desert carp angling would be a dream hot all year round. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5N8o91L_LA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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