Posted on 05/28/2011 1:06:00 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Paul Christensen cast his line deftly into the water. Seconds later, the line went taut and he went to work to reel in his catch.
The outcome was never in doubt, but the fish was not giving up without a fight. After a couple of minutes, Christensen showed off his catch, a carp of about 5 pounds (more like 3 pounds), hooked on the soccer field at Fuller Park in Ann Arbor Friday.
That’s right, a soccer field. “It’s sort of a making lemonade out of lemons situation,” said Dirk Fischbach of Saline, who came out with Christensen Friday to see how many carp they could catch at the park.
With the Huron River at near flood stage following heavy rains in the Ann Arbor area, water was running too fast to fish in the river itself. And the carp, always on the hunt for food, were taking advantage of the flood to feed in a new area. Christensen estimated hundreds were swimming about in the soccer fields, which were flooded with up to 3 feet of water.
It’s not the first time Christensen and Fischbach have turned to a flooded area to satisfy their fishing jones.
“Most of us get really bummed out when the river’s not safe to fish,” Christensen said.
“You can either sit around and do nothing or you can try to have some fun,” Fischbach added.
The river is not safe for wading in when it's flowing at 800 cubic feet per second, Christensen said. Today it was flowing at 3,400 cubic feet per second, he said.
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I’ve caught carp with a fly rod using bead nymphs. I don’t know if the carp were attracted or if they just sucked them up from the bottom.
He’d catch more using that net.
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Or a pitchfork, which is what my dad gave me when the canals around Flint dropped when I was a young-un. They mostly just lay around flopping. And these carp are HUGE!
He threw it back when it brandished a vuvuzella.
I hope he clubs them before he throws them back in.
I catch big carp in the canal 5 minutes from here. I make a dough ball out of a slice of white bread and press it over a #6 hook on the end of the line, with a split shot and bobber a couple feet back. I cast into the center of the canal just upstream from where the street passes over the canal and leave the bale open so I can keep feeding out line until the bait is directly under the center of the bridge. Within ten minutes I have a big carp on the line. A big, slimy foul smelling carp that I reel in, land on the canal bank, hold under my shoe while I retrieve the hook, and kick back into the canal.
Well, come take mine. Just had to replace my minnow trap yesterday, my 20+ lbers literally sucked the lock off the trap.
One thing I have learned about carp is they form breeding pairs that stay together.
Jeff,
Two things
Where I live I’ve caught mullet and don’t like to eat it but I use them as fertilizer. Put one or two under each tree I plant and slow release stuff.
Also I sure hope my son thinks as highly of me as you do yours
Good job sir
That's exactly my perception and exactly my response to catching one!
Troy Landry say they make great gator bait. “Choot-em”!
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