Carp

[Telbone]

Heya guys,

I've been wanting to pick a nice, secluded place at lake mead to start chumming up carp. My interest is catching these guys on my fly rod, but they can be real exciting on conventional gear. I started flyfishing for them several years back. I had lost a couple of big trout and I felt I needed to improve my skills fighting big fish with a fly rod and light tippet. So I started targeting carp. I quickly realized that they were great fun on the fly rod and I've landed several very big one's to date(the biggest was around 15lbs or so). I've been wanting to make a honey hole by chumming up a selected spot. The problem I have is I live above Summerlin and it's just too long a drive to the lake to throw chum on a regular basis.

Idealy if I could get two guys to join me and each pick one day a week to go and throw chum it could work. More would be better, but I think 3 people could chum regularly enough to keep the carp interested. I've done a lot of research and Range Cubes work great as chum... they have the added benefit of attracting baitfish as well, so other gamefish(crappie and black bass have been mentioned specifically) would be attracted as well. They're also dirt cheap. However, I don't know where to get them locally. I've tried Jones Feed up by the Sante Fe casino and they don't carry Range Cubes.

If I can get at least one other guy I'll try. I can guarantee that if I pick a day of the week to chum... I will do so religeously and I'd expect the same of anyone joining in this indeavor.

7 people, each with a different day of the week would be ideal, but like I said if just one other person will join me, then we'll try it and see how it works out.

I know alot of people badmouth carp and call them trash fish, but they're strong as an ox and fight light heck. I personally don't eat them, but I have in the past and they're tasty if prepared correctly, it's just a hassle so I don't bother. I'm a mostly catch and release guy, well at least in freshwater I am, so I don't really care what I catch.

If you're interested please let me know. If I do happen to get a couple of guys intested, then we can meet up and pick a spot.

With the abundance of carp on Lake Mead, I'm quite sure we can get a really nice honey hole going.

Thanks for listening,
Mark
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[tubeN2]

I'm a little far from there but I can attest to the tast of well prepared carp. I even included a couple of recipes on the recipe board if you care to try them out.

I also like the fight of them. They can fight just as well as any other fish and when you get them into the 20lb range, is when the fun really begins.
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[hedgesd]

If you want to catch carp go to the big marinas. You can't fish from the docks but if you have a boat you can.
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[Telbone]

Hey Hedgesd,

I have a boat, but I wasn't aware that you could fish inside the tires at the marinas, boat or not.

I'll look into it.

Thanks for the advice,
Mark
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[hedgesd]

Probable depends on the marina or things have changed since I was down there.
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[tubeN2]

Do they allow the poor mans boat in there??? That's all I have for now.
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[Powermaker]

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[Telbone]

No spot picked out yet.

A friend of the wifes told me there's several nice drive up spots for carp so I guess I'm going looking soon. With the days longer now I'll be able to run out to the lake after work some.

I'll let ya know what I find in the next few days.

Later,
Mark
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[TheBlackAdder]

Hey Telbone...

If you're still looking for people to chum with, I may be interested. I rarely ( once every 4 months ) get weekends off, so I'd have to do this during the week.

It was funny... I thought about the same thing you're planning on doing, and was going to go scouting places this weekend and hopefully get something good going by June...
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