Cornacarpio's Cumulative Carp Culling Caper

[Cornacarpio]

Got home from work and was absolutely buggered...but it was too good of a night not to go fishing. I headed down the creek and holed up in my usual spot with usual results - lots of bites, but only managing to land two micro carp. After an hour or so I decided to call it quits and head home. As I was pedaling away on my bike I noticed a school of 5-6 reasonable sized carp. I was considering continuing on home, but my curiosity got the better of me, so I rigged up again and cast my line out. Got a bite straight away. Good signs. Baited up again and was pretty much on straight away. The result was a nice 60cm model that put up a great fight - the kind of model I have managed to avoid for the past week or so! As usual, there was a gaggle of incredulous onlookers, some who have seen me 'drowning bread' for the past couple of nights and asking me 'Is there actually fish in there?'

+3

2015/16 Total: 57 (Cumulative Total: 1425)

And if you fish for a carp with gentles, then put upon your hook a little piece of scarlet about this bigness [ ], it being soaked in or anointed with the oil of peter, called by some oil of the rock, and if your gentles be put two or three days before into a box or horn anointed with honey, and so put upon your hook as you preserve them to be living, you are as like to kill this crafty fish this way as any other; but still, as you are fishing, chew a little white or brown bread in your mouth, and cast it into the pond about the place where your float swims.

From The Compleat Angler (1996 edn), p.200

[Lightningx]

the one at the top is a beauty :a_goodjob:

[4liters]

great tucker

[Lightningx]

LOL :rofl:

[poodoo]

Got home from work and was absolutely buggered...but it was too good of a night not to go fishing. I headed down the creek and holed up in my usual spot with usual results - lots of bites, but only managing to land two micro carp. After an hour or so I decided to call it quits and head home. As I was pedaling away on my bike I noticed a school of 5-6 reasonable sized carp. I was considering continuing on home, but my curiosity got the better of me, so I rigged up again and cast my line out. Got a bite straight away. Good signs. Baited up again and was pretty much on straight away. The result was a nice 60cm model that put up a great fight - the kind of model I have managed to avoid for the past week or so! As usual, there was a gaggle of incredulous onlookers, some who have seen me 'drowning bread' for the past couple of nights and asking me 'Is there actually fish in there?'

+3

2015/16 Total: 57 (Cumulative Total: 1425)

And if you fish for a carp with gentles, then put upon your hook a little piece of scarlet about this bigness [ ], it being soaked in or anointed with the oil of peter, called by some oil of the rock, and if your gentles be put two or three days before into a box or horn anointed with honey, and so put upon your hook as you preserve them to be living, you are as like to kill this crafty fish this way as any other; but still, as you are fishing, chew a little white or brown bread in your mouth, and cast it into the pond about the place where your float swims.

From The Compleat Angler (1996 edn), p.200

Nice to break the 60 mark again mate! :a_goodjob:

[Cornacarpio]

Headed back to the spot where I got the 60cm model...and got nothing!

So back to catching tiddlers it was.

Maybe 60cm is the new 70cm for me these days?

+3

2015/16 Total: 60 (Cumulative Total: 1428)


Other baits be; but these, with diligence and patient watchfulness, will do it better than any that I have ever practised, or heard of: and yet I shall tell you that the crumb of white bread and honey, made into a paste, is a good bait for carp; and you know that it is more easily made. And have said thus much for a carp, my next discourse shall be of the bream; which shall not prove so tedious, and therefore I desire the continuance of your attention.

From The Compleat Angler (1996 edn), pp.200-201

[Lightningx]

Headed back to the spot where I got the 60cm model...and got nothing!

So back to catching tiddlers it was.

Maybe 60cm is the new 70cm for me these days?

+3

2015/16 Total: 60 (Cumulative Total: 1428)


Other baits be; but these, with diligence and patient watchfulness, will do it better than any that I have ever practised, or heard of: and yet I shall tell you that the crumb of white bread and honey, made into a paste, is a good bait for carp; and you know that it is more easily made. And have said thus much for a carp, my next discourse shall be of the bream; which shall not prove so tedious, and therefore I desire the continuance of your attention.

From The Compleat Angler (1996 edn), pp.200-201

At least you still managed to get 3! Better than a doughnut

[Cornacarpio]

At least you still managed to get 3! Better than a doughnut

Yep, not complaining...

[Cornacarpio]

Headed down to the creek today for more of the same - two tiddlers, including one micro mirror.

+2

2015/16 Total: 62 (Cumulative Total: 1430)

But first, I will tell you how to make this carp, that is so curious to be caught, so curious a dish of meat, as shall make him worth all your labour and patience; and though it is not without some trouble and charges, yet it will recompense both.

From The Compleat Angler (1996 edn), pp.200-201

[4liters]

What hooks are you using to catch the tiny ones?