fishmonger
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Carp on top
I have been trying to catch a couple carps from a pond in a local park, and they have been getting the best of me. I have been using dough balls and corn for bait, but no takers. Anyway, I was trying on Saturday, and there was a family reunion there. Some young kids were running around, and they threw about 2/3 of one of those big jugs of cheese balls in the water. After they started to dissolve, it looked like Shark Week. The carps were cruising the surface, sucking in the cheese balls. My plan is to tie up some fluffy Glo Bugs in an Oregon Cheese color, chum with cheese balls, and float a Glo Bug when the feeding frenzy begins. Think it will work? I have been skunked on three previous trips. I was also eying up some floating yellow power bait. Will that work? I'm going to try on Thursday.
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pghmarty
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RE: Carp on top
2011/07/12 17:39:30
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At Kinzua I saw fish gulping at the surface and did not know what they were until a carp did that close to my boat.
Very strange seeing them eating bugs on the surface.
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RE: Carp on top
2011/07/13 02:10:27
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i say try it iv caught them on every thing else dang near 
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RE: Carp on top
2011/07/13 08:47:39
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You just got a first hand look at how carp chumming works. No need to buy expensive snacks when feed corn, oats, bird seed, etc. will do the same thing.
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RE: Carp on top
2011/07/15 09:54:45
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Yeah I've seen people do this w bread too works pretty good if you can manage to keep the blue gills away
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SevenMileShowcase
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RE: Carp on top
2011/07/15 15:00:29
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Use like a quarter of hotdog bun or and tie a circle hook on a fly pole and just like glorified dri fly fishing you catch the ugliest fish but get a heck of a fight on a fly pole. Or you can use a bait pole. Doesnt matter
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RE: Carp on top
2011/07/15 19:24:14
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Try a cashew nut on a small hook (you can use rubber bands - small like for braces) - chum with canned corn!
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RE: Carp on top
2011/07/17 09:24:57
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Round three was the other night, and I was skunked again. Right before it got dark, a carp started sucking the remnants of some cheese curls that I had chummed with. I casted to it, but no good. I recently picked up some orange floating power bait. On the positive side, I caught 5 brown trout on Friday night off the top, one of them 16-17 inches in length. They took a really small Caddis imitation.
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RE: Carp on top
2011/07/18 13:14:45
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stale bagle hooked through a corner so it floats, when the carp suck it in set the hook,
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tull66
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RE: Carp on top
2011/07/18 14:51:13
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Where can I find bagels with corners? 
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RE: Carp on top
2011/07/18 14:56:30
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 Hope this helps.
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RE: Carp on top
2011/07/20 13:40:11
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One of my best fishing trips I ever had was catching carp off the top, that was back when the locusts were out real bad. Fished the Mon in Morgantown. Those carp were going nuts. They pulled a 12' JOhn boat around all morning
Bout this time of year too, if I remember correctly
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RE: Carp on top
2011/07/29 21:13:17
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Anyone ever fish the mulberry trees overhaning the water. Chunk of purple rubber worm works great.
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RE: Carp on top
2011/07/30 13:27:36
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whooley bugger........or buy a clear bobber and use a fly it turns your spinnin rod into a fly rod.....put some water in the bobber the fish think its a bubble...
post edited by benthook62 - 2011/07/30 13:28:57
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SevenMileShowcase
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RE: Carp on top
2011/08/01 01:34:34
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Wow that sounds like it would work great. So your using like a Byblos indicator for fly fishing . I'm definitely going to try this
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RE: Carp on top
2011/08/01 22:06:36
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ORIGINAL: topdog99
ok, just made that up but sounds like a good idea...
hope this helps
see in erie we just snag em' why bother with messy bait?
roarin duud Any puffball will do if ya chum
post edited by Mr.Slickfish - 2011/08/01 22:09:34
I don't always snag fish, but when I do... I choose Little Cleos I'm the best looking smartest snagging poacher alive...
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RE: Carp on top
2011/08/02 07:02:41
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White filter material used for air intakes on some motors makes a book bread fly after chumming. Used it with success after you get them excited. Cheese puff super glued to a hook on fly rod will work if your not a purist (which I'm not).
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RE: Carp on top
2011/08/12 12:04:01
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SevenMileShowcase
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RE: Carp on top
2011/08/12 18:22:31
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I don't have good luck with stuff like that but I'm gonna try floating corn power bait
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RE: Carp on top
2011/08/18 14:31:49
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throw a foam beetle if they are suckin bugs, or if the are rooting through the bottom, a san juan worm w a bead
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