05-07-2005, 09:44 AM
Welp... about time I got something!! Decided to go with some sweetcorn this time. Havn't used it in a year, never thought twice about using it again til now.
I hooked into a pair of 3-5lb carp about 2 hours apart. I was fishing along the margins roughly 10ft off shore. I'm not sure if this fish was the same one I caught before or not. I doubt it, but, ya never know.
The wind started picking up really bad around 4:30 as well. Most of the guys on jetski's came in and the couple pickincking on the next point took off. I got my one rod stuck, so I was trying to unstuck it, when my alarm went off wildly and the line was ripping from my reel. I happened to hook into a 10lb carp on this rod. Felt like a rock on the end of my line and fought rather well. It only made one run and when I got it by shore it gave up. In fact, once all the fish got to shore, they gave up. Is that a west coast thing or something [
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The wind got really nasty after that fish, and it was time to go.
Funny story. I chum with Maize/Sweetcorn and oatmeal. I read where you can wrap your sinker with this, and it clouds up close to your hookbait, and leaves particles ( corn ) nearby your hookbait. Well, one carp I thought I had hooked apparently had the sinker in his mouth instead of the hookbait. I got him 20ft out, he stuck his head out of the water as I pulled him up, and then spit out the sinker! So, I got a rod flinging a 1 oz sinker towards me, missing about 6 inches from my forhead. I heard the BFFFFFFZZZZ as it went past me. I'd probably still be laying there in a daze..
All in all, It was a good day. The wind was a pain as usual, but I'm getting used to that. Hopefully next time with the weather cooler for Wednesday or Thursday, I can get more than 5 hours in without turning well done from the heat..
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I hooked into a pair of 3-5lb carp about 2 hours apart. I was fishing along the margins roughly 10ft off shore. I'm not sure if this fish was the same one I caught before or not. I doubt it, but, ya never know.
The wind started picking up really bad around 4:30 as well. Most of the guys on jetski's came in and the couple pickincking on the next point took off. I got my one rod stuck, so I was trying to unstuck it, when my alarm went off wildly and the line was ripping from my reel. I happened to hook into a 10lb carp on this rod. Felt like a rock on the end of my line and fought rather well. It only made one run and when I got it by shore it gave up. In fact, once all the fish got to shore, they gave up. Is that a west coast thing or something [
]The wind got really nasty after that fish, and it was time to go.
Funny story. I chum with Maize/Sweetcorn and oatmeal. I read where you can wrap your sinker with this, and it clouds up close to your hookbait, and leaves particles ( corn ) nearby your hookbait. Well, one carp I thought I had hooked apparently had the sinker in his mouth instead of the hookbait. I got him 20ft out, he stuck his head out of the water as I pulled him up, and then spit out the sinker! So, I got a rod flinging a 1 oz sinker towards me, missing about 6 inches from my forhead. I heard the BFFFFFFZZZZ as it went past me. I'd probably still be laying there in a daze..
All in all, It was a good day. The wind was a pain as usual, but I'm getting used to that. Hopefully next time with the weather cooler for Wednesday or Thursday, I can get more than 5 hours in without turning well done from the heat..
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