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[frozenfire]

very good info. i had no idea that carp fishing had all these cool and interesting gadgets related to it.
personally, i've never encountered anyone using this setup around here, but i'm not around carp fishermen often.
very cool.

[openfire]

Very nice pictures there ontariocarper! Thank you for sharing.

I used to fish along-side of a few fishermen who fished this style at Lakeview in Mississauga. We were all fishing for carp, but they had the benefit of not having to look at their rods, since an alarm would sound when they had a fish on. Very, very effective. Myself, well I had my eyes glued on my rod tip at all times... not quite as efficient, but effective nonetheless.

Another fun way to fish for carp in clearer water is this: When water clarity allows, I'll chum an area with hand-fulls of frozen corn and watch through polarized glasses as a carp moves in and strarts eating the corn. Then, when I see the carp pick up the corn that's threaded onto my hook, I instantly set the hook. It's a rush to see them grab your bait and then set the hook.

[MikeyMikey]

Another method for clear water or sight fishing, is called free lining. Use a tiny hook, with a peice of bread and basically let it float over the carp, and they take it from the surface. I never tried it, but have seen it done.

Daniel
OCH

How would you cast the line out with this method ?

[youngs point]

euro carping is a lot different to what you lads in canada do, i should know as ive fished in canada and europe.. over here the bigger fish are a bit more clever,and taking into account how pressured/busy our lakes are, its inevitable i guess? your rivers are full of carp,whereas ours (uk) were but our polish immigrants have more or less taken them all for eating!! plus we now have the signal crayfish which has eaten the eggs/spawn, and the dreaded cormarants,.have eaten the fry! plus the pollution..this is why our lakes are now busy,and the sucsessfull carper has had to adapt to catch these wily ol monsters.. i was lucky enough to fish the river trent at ontonabee i think it was called back in 1999, we had loads of carp! biggest was 29.14lbs i still have the fotos, i loved the place, i imagine its a busy area now as the carp were plentifull here and quite easy to catch back then.ive not been back but my friends did but they went on the st lawrence,anyways would like to chat again soon.