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i have been thinking about fishing for carp .could anyone help me out. what kind of bait and gear would i need to catch them on ?
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Depending on what type of carp.......For instance, a Japanese Grass Carp. I've found that a small cherry tomatoe attached to an ultra light rod and reel works just fine. Depends on the scenario though. This works for my ponds at work, but may not where you are.
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thank u for your help man i will give it a short. again thank you .
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Remember most carp eat vegetation but will take live and dead natural baits sometimes.

There are tons of recipes for dough bait on the internet that fishermen use for carp. Here is mine.

I take regular flour, add tomato juice until its not sticky anymore then I add pumpkin powder and strawberry kool-aid and mix until its not sticky.

Let it RISE for a few hours.

Then freeze it and take it with you when you go carp fishing it will thaw by the time you get to your spot.

I put it on a treble hook with a float about 1 to 2 foot under the float, sit back and wait.

I catch 5lb to 10lb carp in the local rivers and ponds on that bait everytime I go.
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hey man thanks for the reply and recerpie i will give it a try nex time i go .and keep a tight line
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I make my own doughball. I boil one cup of water then add one cup of yellow cornmeal with one tablespoon of sugar. As it thickens, I add strawberry jello for flavor and color and because its jello it will make the doughball gooey which keeps it on the hook better instead of falling off. Good luck.
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remember dogh balls do eventualy desolve in water, so you will need to check them every half hour to an hour.

it is best to cast them in a hole and leave it lie. the desolving dogh ball will atract the fish.

even a piece of fresh wonderbread can be turned in to a dogh ball. and if you experiment you will find many other mediums that will work with little or no effort.

I knew a guy who used to use raisen bran cerial, he would just slightly dip it in to water and mashed it till it became a hard dogh ball that was about like modeling clay. He caught as many carp as I did using my brand of dogh ball.
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I have not had much to do w/ carp since I was a teenager. As I recall, at that time, the carp ate a lot of pellets and ate bread. These items were fed to them and they went into frenzies eating them. I think either the pellets or bread would have been great bait. Lesson being, whatever they are eating by default should work as bait. Find that out and match it.
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carp primarily eat decaying material, this why most carp anglers use dogh ball.

whole cernal corn is used as well,

anything that lets out a sent that will flow with the water current works best. Or any thing that lays in a hole where carp normaly feed will work. this includes worms, dead minnow, shrimp, bubble gum... zebra mussles..

You will be suprized what you will find if you cut in to the belly of a carp....
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So, how does one prepare carp to eat? In this country, you do not go to a restaurant and see "Carp a diem" on the menu.

I recall from when I was a small kid being told people did not eat them. It always seemed such a waste, even as an 11 or 12 year old. IF a fish breeds like carp do, grow as big as carp do, are as easy to catch as carp are, why can't they be used to meet food needs?

This thread revives that 40+ year old memory and I would be glad to have some discussion on what to do w/ carp after you shoot them. I have never seen one hanging on the wall under the moose head next to the lunker walleye with the owner bragging to me that he got that one w/ his tripple action bow from 89 feet through an old apple tree on a 45 pitch hillside or an 8 pound dough ball that stunk to high heaven!
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Only in this country is carp concidered a garbage fish, and for the most part it is. It was introduced in north america around the turn of the 1900's to help clean sewage that was dumped directly in to rivers and lakes from factories and homes.

Those practices have been outlawed, but dosnt mean it still dosnt happen. so one must be carefull as to wich bodies of waters one is targeting carp.

Carp like salmon are bone fish, meaning they have an extra set of rib bones.

in addition to the extra rib bones there is a mud vein to contend with.

Younger and much smaler carp under14 inches can be gutted and smoked or fillet and smoked.

from about 14 inches and up you need to fillte and skin the carp. On the skin side of the fillet is where you will find the mud vein, the biger the carp the biger the vein and more flesh you will have to throw away.

If the fish is young or the water is clean the mud vein will be redish in color, the older and dirtier the water the browner the mud vein will become.

After the fillet is skinned, to cut out the mud vein you will cut from the fillet a "V" out of the side.

You can then debone the carp or can it like salmon or bake it grill it or even cut it in to strips and deap fry it in batter.

Fresh Clean carp is realy not all that bad, It is not nearly as strong taisting as salmon.

To each his own boys, but I like mine soaked in water for a while to flush out any blood, then battered and deap fried.
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Great information davetclown! Thanks.
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