I have always used hot dogs, bread *****, or corn. Nothing else seemed to work. I catch them right across the street from my house in the creek, its murky as hell, but the scent must bring them in. I even snag them on occasion, not on purpose of course, but if I'm jigging for other stuff they have a tendency to snag their tails on our hooks. Catfish do the same thing.

 

yeah me and my friend go to his grandpa and grandmas house because the have a really cool creek to fish out of its really deep and a lake. but every july the carp swim up from the mississippi river and spawn. they sit a foot off shore. the rule is if they see you they wont bite but they dont spook. so we shoot them with our BB guns. they float to the surface. then we feed them to the coyotes. fun times. we tried to snag them but it did not work. i also have 3 40 inch Koi in the neighborhood pond. koi is the fish you put into ponds in yards. i guess they grow to how big there surroundings are. we have carp in that pond too but there not that many so every time they see you they wont bite

 

Yeah, when they spawn we always go bowfishing, more for the fun of it than the sport, . Its almost as close to shooting fish in a barrel. Upstream from my house is the rapids, and some real shallow water. One year I grabbed the canoe, had my buddy stand in the rapids, and I lit firecrackers off out of the canoe to scare all the fish up to the rapids, I thought he was gonna have a bow, I rounded the bend and he was standing there with a 12ga... Retard shot at the water, it killed the fish, but he's lucky it didn't kill me, I ended up with 3 holes the exact size of 00 buckshot in my canoe, and 1 shot hit the fuel line to the ourboard. I had to float it home with no motor and no paddles... I wish I could say we haven't done it again, but that would just be a lie, haha.

 

the place his granparents live it is illegal to hunt deer. but the place is crawlin with them. i saw a 14 point the last time i was there just standing in the street. you could literally hunt from the front porch. but if the neighbors hear a gun shot you are screwed. i have to stick to BB guns but i wish i had a jon boat so i could go down the creek were you cant go on the shore. next time i go there me and my buddy are gonna go get waterproof m-80s and put them down the carp and as they swim away watch them blow up

 

Carp, otherwise known as Sewer Bass are a blast to catch on rod and reel, some of the fightnest fish around and heavy enough to put up a good fight. You can use anything for bait, they act just like the suckers in the aquariums, they mouth and try out everything they come across. We used Cottonseed cake in the old days and catch em by the hundreds. Used to get a lot of em in my stupid ole days of loggin to.

Carp can be pretty good to eat if you catch em in clean water or if you have a tub or trough throw em in it for a few days and hange the water out and it will flush the muddy taste out of em. Pretty similar to Buffullo once they flush out. I had a 400 gallon water trough that we would throw up to 50 or 60 in at a time and change the water a couple times a day and clean em on that second day.

If you want a real easy catch that actually taste pretty good just go run around in a boat and snag up the Asian Carp. No limits on numbers or size and no permit even needed. Believe it or not they are actually pretty good eatin since they were originally created as a hybrid species for commersial fish farms.

 

thanks for the history. i thought they would taste like **** but i guess i was wrong

 

Most people use a dough bait, see some recipes Here One good thing, no stink like catfish bait.

 

thanks for that. i will be catching carp in no time