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Carp Fishing on TV - 11/1/2009 11:24:59 AM

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The Sportsman channel on DirecTv tonight had a show called Breaking the Surface which featured an episode on carp fishing! I think that is awesome... too long now the carp has been disregarded as worthless fishing by the mainstream.

If i recall they were on the Missouri River. This woman was dead drifting plastic craws and catching decent common carp, and a decent mirror. She kept switching between a spin rod and a fly rod depending on location. Anyway, it was a good show and featured carp!

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RE: Carp Fishing on TV - 11/1/2009 6:12:41 PM

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Pretty cool. Do you know if its going to air again?

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RE: Carp Fishing on TV - 11/1/2009 6:26:58 PM

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Anytime they do a show on Carp, they always do it half ****ed...

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RE: Carp Fishing on TV - 11/1/2009 11:20:15 PM

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I dont know about that. I watched an episode of The Archers Choice and they were bow-fishing for the asian carp that jump in the air. They were smoking them as they jumped around the boat!!! lol, I could not believe how many of the carp they hit while driving in a boat and shooting at fish that are 4-5 feet in the air.

THAT is doing it full-****ed, not half-****ed. :)

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RE: Carp Fishing on TV - 11/2/2009 1:22:40 AM

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ORIGINAL: mmagreg

The Sportsman channel on DirecTv tonight had a show called Breaking the Surface which featured an episode on carp fishing! I think that is awesome... too long now the carp has been disregarded as worthless fishing by the mainstream.

If i recall they were on the Missouri River. This woman was dead drifting plastic craws and catching decent common carp, and a decent mirror. She kept switching between a spin rod and a fly rod depending on location. Anyway, it was a good show and featured carp!

Your are likely talking about common carp we are all familiar with and not the newer invasive asian carp species that are a totally different ------just so there's no cornfusion.

But yeah, in recent years there have been some segments on carp fishing on angling shows like In-Fisherman and Lindner's Angling Edge, among others. Even Flip Pallot had done some carp segments on his old show Walker Cay Chronicles, including one where he fly fished with Lefty Kreh for carp on the Susquehanna River.

I couldn't find any link to the particular show ya mentioned above, but here's a link to a carp flyfishing video:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid25033495001?bclid=25024021001&bctid=1606794793

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RE: Carp Fishing on TV - 11/2/2009 2:06:44 AM

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Clay - I tried to look in to when they might re-air the episode and their website didn't seem to even mention the show... i wanted to share that info here, unfortunately i couldn't find it.

Mountain - I have to say they did a **** good show of it... while i have used a fly rod, and various presentations thereof, i have never thought to dead drift a soft plastic... makes **** good sense tho. Here on the Three Rivers in the city of Pittsburgh they generally will eat anything sitting on the bottom. I've been spoiled by dropping line with corn, bread or McDonald's french fries depending on the season. In late September i catch nice common carp on chicken livers or hotdogs at the catfish hole even.

pacarper - i'm not likely talking about common carp... read the post again... i mention, without obfuscation, that they were catching common carp (and one mirror carp).... somehow i doubt anyone was confused by that. You catching carp other than common in PA? I'd be interested in hearing about that if so. What general area of PA are you in? Always looking for someone else to drop line with!

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RE: Carp Fishing on TV - 11/2/2009 2:01:17 PM

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We both know what you were referring to, but asian carp got thrown into the discussion and just reiterating the difference. Some like to lump all carp into one category and that ain't the case. And I didn't say anything about confused, I said cornfused, there's a diffference.

Case in point, a few years back when that bfer tried to claim the PA state record carp with that 54 grass carp, more accurately, white amur, from Preaque Isle that he shot------but it didn't count since it was an invasive asian species that wasn't supposed to be in public waters. A number of years back biologists caught an asian bighead carp from Presque Isle as well, so the asian carp are in PA waters unfortunately.
Grass carp are to be had in PA, but more than like likely in private waters such as golf course ponds where they can be stocked (permit required from state) for weed control. I know of one paylake in SW PA that has grass carp and I've seen a couple of bighead carp landed there as well-----must of got stocked with the regular common carp.
I've caught plenty of common/mirror carp and a couple of koi carp as well over the years, but not any asian carp....................yet.
I'm in NW PA.

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RE: Carp Fishing on TV - 11/2/2009 4:37:25 PM

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Breaking The Surface airs 11/3 at 10am on the Sportsman Channel. I'm not sure if it's the carp episode or not. It might be since they seem to replay the same episodes for about a week or so.

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