Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by Texas » Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:57 am

Well done CC
That's more like it
Cheers Gra

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Post by Paulanderson » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:15 pm

With a name like Cornacarpio it is very hard to imagine the corn being left behind. As for your fathers yabbies! Anyway looks like you had a lot of fun there.

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Post by Cornacarpio » Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:15 pm

Headed out to Taylor’s Lake again yesterday with the old man in tow with some ‘proper bait’ this time. The weather was very propitious, we literally couldn’t have asked for a better day. It was hot and the lake was like glass – there was no wind at all. I was expecting to back up from the day before and continue on with my multi-carp catching haul and thought a big bag was a given.

We tossed the rods in. Naturally, I opened a can of corn and put two rods in with corn – my Dad put two rods in with the yabbies we forgot yesterday. We waited. And waited. A couple of hours passed and we haven’t even had a bite. The bait was still on all our rods when we checked them. ‘How could today be so different from yesterday?’ I thought to myself. That’s the vagaries of fishing I suppose.

After about an hour or so, my Dad decreed that I had to strip my rods of corn – and put on worms – as at least that would bring other species into the mix, but still there was nothing, the bites were not forthcoming. An hour or so more passed (without a nibble) when we noticed small fish jumping, which we assumed were carp, but on closer inspection, they appeared to be redfin. Dying to catch a fish of any kind – even redfin – I did something I haven’t done for a very long time. I put on an ecogear lure (from when I was a trout enthusiast) and ran it through the schooling redfin. It didn’t take long before I had my first fish of the day – even if it was a redfin. I’ve never been a huge fan of them. The fight was lacklustre but I was happy just to catch something. A huge school must have swam through close to shore. I got 10-12 in a relatively short space of time. One was nearly edible and I had an even bigger one get off as it got tangled up in one of the lines from my bait rod.

Eventually I got a bite on my bait rod. It was a little Carp. There was a steady stream of bites after that, and I hooked a few more, but it was nothing like yesterday. My Dad had had just about enough by this stage (as had I) and dusk was rapidly approaching, so my Dad decreed that I had to throw back the yabbies that he had worked so hard to get – so I did. Not all of them survived the hot weather, so I decided to put two yabbie tails on a paternoster rig as we were slowly packing up to leave. About 10 minutes later, BANG!, the rod bent over and the reel started screaming. ‘That’s the rod with yabbie tails on it’ I said to my Dad as I rushed over to grab it. He kept asking ‘What’s is fighting like, what’s it fighting like?’. I didn’t have the heart to tell him…a carp. Even after a couple of minutes he was saying ‘a bloody carp’. I must admit, I did think it was a carp from the way it was fighting – it was a very dogged fight and gave me a real good run for my money, but it stayed low and I was yet to get a visual sighting, that is, until it was about 2m from the bank and I was the spikey dorsal fins, followed by DARK GREEN. I couldn’t believe it. It was Cod, and by the time I realised what it was I had already landed it. I couldn’t believe it (did I say that already?). We’d been there all day and hardly got a bite and within 10 minutes of whacking on some yabbie tails from some ‘cooked’ yabbies, I’d landed a PB (and legal) Murray Cod of around 58cm. My first one! Unlike the ‘little’ one I picked up on Christmas, this one was not going back (not really my choice).

Fishing can be a funny game. 35 carp one day, 4 the next – in exactly the same spot. A very average day soon turned into a very good one. Taylor’s Lake at its finest. A variety of fish using a variety of baits. My Dad now has 2 edible fish in the fridge for tomorrow. He will think all his Christmases have come at once!

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Taylors Lake

There are a number of theories on how carp populated the lake. One theory is based on carp entering the lake from the Wimmera River via the channel system, the other is based on the current large population originating from carp being used as Murray cod bait during the 1960’s. Although it has taken carp 30 years to take over the lake they have eventually succeeded. For ‘Coarse Anglers’ interested in catching carp, I recommend they take a trip to the lake as their catches will amaze them.

Fishing Wimmera Waters (1997), 3rd edition, Gary Knight, Sportfish Australia Publications Pty Ltd, Glenormiston Rd, Noorat Vic, 3265
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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by ChrisD » Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:45 am

Well done mate - nice catches and an unexpected surprise.
Always amazing how a locations results can vary from day to day.
Recently I tried a new spot along the Yarra and it went off, finished with three decent Redfin, a good sized Brown trout and a Blackfish - tried the same spot the following evening, same rods, same baits, same rod holders, conditions were theoretically better and not a bite or nibble to be had.
But I guess that is - in part - what draws us to fishing. If it wasn't a challenge and bit of a mystery - where would the fun be.

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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by Stumpjumper » Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:36 pm

Nice work CC, that is a lovely Cod too. :thumbsup: I chase carp from time too time too, they put up a good fight and are not too fussy on baits either. I've caught them on hard bodies, chicken, cheese, yabbies, worms, mudeyes, corn and bread which is probably the best bait for carp around here. Last weekend I was fishing early in the morning with my nephew. He was using worms and I was using chicken and cheese hoping for cod. I caught one monster carp on chicken and a bunch of turtles on cheese but the nephew slayed the carp on worms and couldn't keep two rods in the water. Ended up with 19 for a few hours fishing......

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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by Lightningx » Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:38 pm

Nice work mate. Great session :thumbsup:

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Post by Cornacarpio » Sun Jan 21, 2018 8:28 pm

Back in the urban jungle...it's all fun and games.
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Post by Cornacarpio » Sun Jan 21, 2018 8:35 pm

Back in the urban jungle...it's all fun and games.

Haven't had much luck down at the creek for the past week...until today. I got 5 small commons of about 30cm each on corn and one very fugly mirror taken on bread. Despite the fact that it was about to drop its guts, it gave a really good fight and did its best to try and snag me in the reeds. Fortunately for me it was unsuccessful in its attempt.

Great day for fishing - hot and humid - just how the fish like it - and lucky for me the thunderstorms that were predicted never came.

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Your Mental Attitude

The object of fishing primarily is to catch fish and most of our ardent anglers are people who have had their enthusiasm sparked by successfully landing a good fish. But we can never measure the benefits of fishing in terms of the fish caught. As appetising as most of our catches may be, nobody can deny the benefits of escaping from daily cares, daring the elements, sunshine and fresh air, good companionship and sound sleep!

Gregory’s Fishing Guide (1967), 5th edition, fully revised, printed by Kenmure Press Pty Ltd, Wetherill and Derby Sts, North Lidcombe, NSW, for Gregory’s Guides and Maps Pty Ltd, 14s Clarence St Sydney, p.4
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Post by Lightningx » Sun Jan 21, 2018 8:49 pm

Nice work once again mate :thumbsup:

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Re: Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

Post by Cornacarpio » Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:18 pm

Just the one from this Australia Day.

Also got a Redfin which was completely unexpected!

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How to Rethink Australia Day

Jan. 26 is the day in 1788 when the first fleet of ships from Britain entered Sydney Cove. Put simply, the holiday commemorates the British colonization of Australia — and with it the dispossession of the indigenous population, a centuries-long story of subjugation and countless atrocities, like the Gippsland massacres in the 1840s, in which up to 1,000 indigenous people were killed by white settlers over the course of a decade.

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