Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

[Cornacarpio]

What hooks are you using to catch the tiny ones?

Usually a size 12 flyhook (also responsible for catching my 60cm specimen the other day)

[DR.SPESH]

:cheers: 5kg/70cm

[DR.SPESH]

:fish22:

[Cornacarpio]

Was that from the creek of Gardner?

[DR.SPESH]

Na just thought I would share it with you. Yarra yesterday

[Lightningx]

:fish22:

Nice one mate! Well done :thumbsup:

[Cornacarpio]

Headed down to the creek today to one of my old haunts. Cast my float out - Bang! - went under straight away (didn't even have time to sit down) and peeled about 30-40m of line off before I could even think about reeling it in. I knew it would be a pretty decent size - it put up a terrific fight - but just how big it actually was surprised me - a tad over 70cm Naturally, all the commotion I caused in managing to land it attracted a few passers-by who were just as surprised as I was...I was really lucky I remembered to bring my butterfly net (which acts as a landing net) as I wouldn't have had a hope in hell of landing it without it, and my story of epic struggle might have been filed under 'the one that got away'. Once I caught it, I didn't know what to do with it - I didn't have any plastic bags, there was no bin in sight, and it was too heavy to take home, so I eviscerated it. When i cut it open, it was full of eggs - and I mean full. There must have been literally millions of them. I punctured its swim bladder and returned it to the water in a very dead state, where it sunk to the bottom.

On the way home I stopped my the poo-hole to catch the standard fare of micro-tiddlers, including the token mirror carp.

All in all, it was a great day - I had landed a 70cm beast within 15 minutes of setting up shop. I was so glad to get it, I almost forgot what it's like reeling in a decent sized fish! :banana:

+5

P.S. Apologies if the photos are a bit 'off'. I forgot my camera and only had my phone with me...

2015/16 Total: 67 (Cumulative Total: 1435)

Take a carp (alive if possible), scour him, and rub him clean with water and salt, but scale him not; then open him, and put him, with his blood, and his liver (which you must save when you open him) into a small pot or kettle, then take sweet marjoram, thyme, and parsley, of each half a handful, a sprig of rosemary, and another of savory, bind them into two or three small bundles, and put them to your carp, with four or five whole onions, twenty pickled oysters, and three anchovies.

From The Compleat Angler (1996 edn), p.201

[Lightningx]

Sounds like you had a top day! Well done

[DR.SPESH]

Well done, yeah looked fat. Great report. I got a 77cm today. What bait you using?

[Cornacarpio]

I use bread 90% of the time in urban waterways...