Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by willow17 » Tue Oct 17, 2017 9:04 pm

Skeets Im from the area and saw a bit of activity tonight on the creek walking the dog. Still worth a go as it starts to dry up and get warmer.

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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by Cornacarpio » Sun Oct 29, 2017 7:42 pm

Headed out today in propitious, pleasant and picture-perfect conditions (barring the wind) primed for a piscatorial pursuit in a polluted pond known as Gardiners Creek. Now I have been heading out occasionally over the past week or so on the slightly warmer nights after work to wet a line, but haven’t had much luck – I fouled hook one the other night, but it got off and I hooked up last week and the bugger got me snagged. I eventually managed to unsnag it, only for it to get off just as I was about to net it… :(

Anyway, determined to put my back luck and string of doughnuts behind me, I was mildly confident today was the day I successfully break my duck. As I got down to the creek it was very windy. This made fishing with a float almost impossible, so I did was I seldom do down at the creek – and that is to put a (running) sinker on and do some ‘sit-down’ fishing. While not as fun or visually appealing as float fishing, it proved to be just as effective – within 20 minutes my rod was buckled over and heading straight for the water! Luckily, I grabbed it just in time and the Carp was well and truly hooked, trying his utmost to destroy my plan of bringing him to shore. With a sinker on and a rocky bottom, I had to be extra careful to keep the rod up and the sinker/line away from any possible snags. This Carp certainly packed a punch and it was a good while before I was able to bring him in (my arm was actually getting sore). I kept expecting the worse after my past couple of trips,and I was waiting for something to go wrong, but he eventually tired and I got my butterfly net around his head. I was pleasantly surprised when I fully inspected my catch. He was a great deal bigger than I expected and he weighed a ton. I don’t know what I’ve done with my brag-mat, but he would go close to the ‘magical’ 70cm mark I reckon!

While I haven’t caught any great numbers of Carp so far this season, I have been quite happy with the size and quality of my catches so far. If there’s a better way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon than slaying Carp, I’d certainly like to know about it!

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2017/18: 2 (Cumulative total: 1,501)

John Gardiner arrived in Australia from Ireland with his wife, parents-in-law and son in 1822. They took up land throughout Van Dieman’s land before drought and depression led them to the mainland. In 1836, Gardiner, together with John Hepburn and Joseph Hawdon, drove 400 head of cattle from a station on the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales to Port Phillip. This journey was the first undertaken into Port Phillip with stock and earned Gardiner and his companion the name “overlander” – a name given to settlers who drove stock long distances to new pastures. Within a year of their journey the number of settlers in the area had reached 1000. Four years later the number had risen to 20,000.

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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by Danny2001 » Tue Oct 31, 2017 11:23 am

Fuarrrrr what a carp mate!

What bait were you using?

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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by Lightningx » Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:46 pm

Big one CC.
Nice work! :thumbsup:

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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by Cornacarpio » Tue Oct 31, 2017 6:59 pm

Danny2001 wrote:What bait were you using?
Bread. White bread.

In other news, I walked into Aldi today and couldn't help but purchase another Shimano telescopic rod/reel combo for $40 ;-)

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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by Cornacarpio » Sun Nov 05, 2017 7:54 pm

Headed out today in unseasonably cool conditions to the creek - I was a little hesitant to go, given the coolish weather, but thought 'stuff it - I might not get another chance for a while'. I didn't regret my decision for long - almost instantaneously my rod buckled over and on the end of it was a nice little Carp in the 50-60cm range. While it didn't give quite the same tussle as the Carp I got the other day, it was a decent enough fight. Shortly after, I got a bite and then a hook-up - but no cigar(s). The bites - and hook-ups - kept coming - including one that snapped my leader, but I was unable to land anything!

Even though I only got one, it was an enjoyable session - and still one more than I would have got if I had just stayed at home. I was so confident of not catching one that I still left my running sinker rig on from last time, and I didn't bother to take my new Aldi special down to the creek! You always get one when you least expect it! Hopefully my first multi-Carp haul is not too far away!

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2017/18: 3 (Cumulative total: 1502)

John Gardiner made his presence felt in Port Phillip society. He was the first President of the Temperance Society, Chairman of the Port Phillip Bank and Director of the Melbourne Fire and Marine Insurance Company. He retired to Mooroolbark in the 1840s when the bank collapsed, but sold his assets in 1853 and moved to England. His wife and daughter remained behind.

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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by ChrisD » Sun Nov 05, 2017 7:59 pm

another nice catch there.
Have you been back to TNA since they drained it?

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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by Cornacarpio » Sun Nov 05, 2017 8:32 pm

I went a few weeks ago. The top pond looks completely different and is now some recycled water harvesting system (and more or less unfishable). The bottom pond might still have Carp in it, but I didn't catch one. When I went there it was half-empty as the drained it to plant vegetation around the sides.
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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by ChrisD » Sun Nov 05, 2017 9:25 pm

bugger, was good while it lasted, but I guess the aim is to get rid of carp so the council did the right thing.

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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by Cornacarpio » Sun Nov 12, 2017 8:51 pm

Headed out yesterday to the Glen Iris section of the creek in picture-perfect conditions - literally 'picture-perfect'; hardly a breath of wind, clear skies, clear creek and a very comfortable 27 or 28 degrees. In other words, conditions ideal for Carping - or so I thought. As is normally the case this time of the year, there was Carp everywhere. Trouble was, they were not interested in my bait - at all. They were all schooled up in large numbers and impervious to my meticulously presented bait. I came to the conclusion that they must be spawning, which led me to another conclusion - that Carp aren't hungry when they spawn. In my attempts to find a new-hole, somewhere where the Carp would potentially be more receptive to my bait, I came across a large swarm of bees and a beehive thingy. I've said it before, and I'll probably say it again: it's amazing what you see in an (sub)urban environment if you just open your eyes, whether it be fish in a creek, a water dragon sunning itself, snake/s, or a swarm of bees!

Anyway, I woke up Sunday feeling very tired after a very extensive nightshift, but it was too good of a day not to go fishing. After not having much luck in Glen Iris yesterday, I opted for the much closer Burwood section of the creek. Now I wasn't feeling confident at all - the water looked very dirty and I haven't had much luck there in recent trips - I'm about 0/5 so far this 'season' and wondered if I had lost my 'mojo'. But today was different - I tried a slightly different section to my usual haunts after spotting a bit of surface activity. The Carp seemed to be swimming by themselves or in small schools, which was good I thought, as they didn't seem to be spawning in this particular section of the creek. I had a couple of very tentative nibbles early on, and just as I was about to pack-up and go home fishless, there was a little bobble in my float - not even enough to pull it under, but enough to suggest that a fish was in the vicinity. Luckily, I struck at the right time and managed to land my first Burwood Carp of the season, and in so doing, managed to break my recent run of 'ducks' in the area. Not a massive one by any stretch of the imagination, but a very rewarding one.

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2017/18: 4 (Cumulative total: 1503)

Gardiner’s creek became a playground to many families who lived on the land once owned by Gardiner and other settlers like him. Gardiner walked to school along the creek bed or played in the drains, while further along the creek in Malvern they swam or tried to catch fish.

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