It wasn't long before we started to pull in one after another. But the best part was when some local kids showed up on their bicycles with their $10.00 Canadian Tire special rods. They were throwing out their lines and realing them in like crazy. I asked what they were fishing for and they said carp..When I took a look at what they were using I told them that they wouldn't catch any with the hook and rig they were using. I showed them how to make a "hair-rig" and gave them some corn to use. Within 5 minutes they hooked into their first carp. A 12 lb. carp that made their day.
I was catching so many carp that day that one of the young lads, Mathew, asked if he could pull in my next carp on my rod. I said okay and here he is pulling in an 18 lbc. carp.
The kids hooked 4 carp that afternoon, landed one, got one up to the net before thier 8 lb. test line broke, had one of their fishing rods pulled into the water by a carp and had another break another line.
The second day of fishing was without the kids, but the carp were hitting so fast that I couldn't read more than one page of my book at a time without having another fish on. (and I am a fast reader). That second day my wife and I stopped counting how many fish we caught but it was somewhere between 25 and 30.
By the end of the second day we were totally exhausted. The carp were going crazy over corn. What we did this time was follow Jeffs advice and chummed the water with more corn that I had ever done before and it paid off in spades.
What a trip, Thanks Jeff for everything.
TonyB
Great stuff..as a kid I was fishing the Grand River for carp looking for "moby dick" the giant one that was rumoured to have a lot of broken off hooks in his mouth. Kept me going back forever..
