Carp Fishing on TV

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!

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

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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!

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

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.

For anyone interested, looks like In-Fisherman TV will be airing some segments on carp fishing in the next month on their two TV shows:
Week of January 25th - Tough Customers "Drag Smoking Carp" (this coming weekend)----In-Fisherman Specials
Week of February 1 - Sportfish in Action "Sight Fishing Carp"---------- In-Fisherman Critical Concepts show
Week of February 15 - Big Bad Boys on the Block "Block Buster Carp"---In-Fisherman Critical Concepts show

The shows airs at 7 and 7:30 am Sat. on FOX Sports Network on TW cable and are repeated at other times during the week.  Check your local listings for time on your cable system.  They also air their shows on the Sportsman channel.

Its funny you mention that Randy because a friend of mine works in television and he said whenever a carp or catfish fishing show is on it gets the highest rating over any other specie out there. I think all you see is bass and after so long guys get bored with it and would like to see soemthing else.Looking forward to the new in fisherman shows to see how they do this time. I heard its more up to date with whats going on.