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:
Great report Mack! Nothing beats fishing!
-Santosh
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)
Thanks Tim, I would enjoy fishing with you sometime....Mack
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