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so i went after some browns today was scouting out a new spot and threw a mepps agila and out of the bottom bam carp on the thing came up after it, here is a video for you to see it blew me away never have a caught a carp on a spinner let alone have one chase one.. and i have never caught one this late in the year.

http://youtu.be/4eCJuHwOwSI
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Those carp are pretty unpredictable. I've caught a few on spinners, several on jigs, lots on flies. The first time it happened I was fishing a small creek quite a ways up from where carp would enter. I cast up under a bridge and the thing just hammered it. I was fighting it for about ten minutes, convinced it was a monster brown, and then it finally emerged from the cover of the bridge. I'll admit I was a little disappointed.
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I am still hooking/landing them with a fly. Nice Mirror Jeremy.
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Is it a mirror? I figured it was a common that had lost most of its scales.. It also had a weird growth on its bottom lip it was about the size of a quarter around and about a 1/4 inch high with little pimple looking bumps all over it..
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Looks like a Mirror to me. Common have smaller more uniformed scales and they don't loose them like that, or at least that I know of.
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Well thats good to know.. Guess all these years ive had them mixed up thank ya
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That is a nice one though...jealous[]
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