Carp, strong fighters?

I caught a 10lb carp today in a 4 acre pond . It fought like a tired 4lb bass. Ive caught alot of carp in the rivers that fought much harder. What gives?

They normally are one of the strongest fighters pound for pound in freshwater, aside from smallmouths. Maybe heat or stagnant water was the culprit. Did it look malnourished?

I caught fish after fish yesterday for 2 hours. There was a school of shad that the carp were smashing into and I would jig a white curly tail in the school. Seen this last year too. Caught close to 20 with only 2 snagged. This was below a dam.

Great fight, like catching steels. Biggest was around 28 inches. I,m taking my fly rod this evening. Will try for some pixs.

I fish the pay lake's every week the 9 to 17 lb fish fight the best....
over 20 you get 1 or 2 good run's and they log up this time of yr...
if there is no good protien base, crayfih, shad,trout guts, at this time of year they are looking for proeitn that they cant get from dough ball???  all carb's...
nightcrawler's this time of year for big fish???

OK Santa! LOL

It really depends on the fish. I have had small ones that fight very very hard and I have had some very large ones not fight much at all. Each one is different and I can't tell how large they are anymore judging from the fight because it varies so much.

And make sure you pay attention to your rod so it doesn't get drug away from a sudden run.....

 
 
as it falls into the water right in front of you but your laughing too hard to try and pick the rod up out of the water and watch it disappear....

ORIGINAL: pxatim

These tales you speak of... I do not know

 
yeah i still remember it like it was yesterday....
 
i loved that quantum rod....

I was doing some float fishing fer carp at a small lake Thur. and caught a few.  The first one I caught was the biggest (at least 15 lbs.), a light-colored carp and after an initial short run, didn't put up much of a fight.  The other two were smaller (9 and 11 lbs. or so) and darker colored and fought much better---lotsa fun using 6lb. test line and a 10.5 ft. steelhead rod.  It seems the dark carp always put up a good fight no matter where caught---paylakes or wild water.  This time of year with the warmer water, carp can be more sluggish in fight and dog it, especially in lakes with stagnant water that has less oxygen than river water. Most river carp usually put up a good fight.  Sometimes it comes down to each individual carp being different accounting for the variance in fight.  Still, carp pretty much put up a better fight overall than anything else with fins in freshwater. 

ORIGINAL: jonnyfishon

Just got back from one of the local rivers. Got a nice carp about 10+ and some large perch. This carp fought great, 6lb test, 6 ft ugly stick med-light rod, what a blast.

thats the exact same way i catch em

its the only fish worth catching back home thats a decent size
so much fun and easy to catch!

yeah i also use the same combo for the small stream and creek fishing around school and back home

i even used it last year for steelhead because i do not have the right fly fishing gear

they were interesting fights,  def better than carp but i did land about 4 the one day we went up i think..

haha well its about time someone likes my picture

other people in a diff thread was calling it pornographic....lol

but i didn't they could do that..  interesting fact

yeah look at it this way,after armegeddon the only living things will be carp and keith richards lol

Aw, come on...Joan Rivers will still be smiling too!