Saturday, October 8, 2011

A Grand Day Carp Fishing

Location- Piedmont Lake, 3' low
Conditions- Sunny , Air Temp 70's
Date October 4th, 2011
Time 3PM-6PM


I had a few hours to kill before my lodge meeting so I decided to do what I do about  every other year or so.

Carp Fishing.  I grew up carp fishing on the Haw and the famous Snoffers Lake on the Burlington Graham City Limit Line.  Today  a few hours would be spent relaxing  under the shade of a tree hoping to catch a carp or 2.

My bait today would be an old standby-



My outfits today would be a Shimano 3500 Baitrunner loaded with 15 lb line on an 8' rod and a Daiwa 2600 Tournament loaded with 20lb braid with a mono leader also on an 8' rod

I left the horizontal holders at home because the vertical ones are lighter and I had a long walk from the truck. Both reels will catch any carp that swims and here is what the Shimano caught today.


I was rewarded with this monster common carp which put up 1 heck of a fight!.

Don't laugh Aki and Santosh, at least I wasn't skunked!.

I'll  bet a few of you are thinking how can this be a Grand Day with only one little carp caught ?  Easy, Remember that shade tree I was sitting under???   I planted that tree approx 20 years ago. That little seedling started off as a 3 ft Bald Cypress and now that little seedling is 30' tall and doing well.  Mack


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great report Mack! Nothing beats fishing!

-Santosh

Anonymous said...

Enjoyed that, Mack. If you ever have time, we'd love to have you join us in our attempts to catch that NC 40 Lb carp.
Tim (carpio)

Mack said...

Thanks Tim, I would enjoy fishing with you sometime....Mack