Hey how do you fish for these things? I'm tired of seeing them and not knowing how to catch them... No point in taking them for food, but i bet those suckers fight well... big 'uns..
Curtis

I've caught the hell out of em' over at Potholes. You're right they do fight really well on any decent tackle. When we were younger we caught them on doughballs. Just take a slice of bread,wad it up real tight and gob on your hook. Now that I'm older I don't fish for them intentionally,but still manage to land a few every year on all the regular trout baits.

I grew up fishing for bullheads, bluegill, and carp on my grandfather's farm pond. The bluegill and bullhead were stunted from being underfished and overpopulated. They would bite on anything. Once, I caught a bucket of bullheads on a lengthy piece of chicken entrail without any hook or line, and that's no s#it, or about three feet of s#it, depending how you look at it

The carp were a challenge to catch. They would come into the shallows to feed, and you had to use stealth to sneak up on them. Worms, sweet corn, and special recipe doughballs were the preferred baits. At three or four pounds, they fought better than anything else in the pond, 'cept maybe the snapping turtle. I don't remember what the flesh, or the bones tasted like. I only remember my grandmother warning us that if we choked on one of the bones, we would be dead before they got us to Council Bluffs.

You could probably catch a few carp by rolling a slice of Wonder Bread into a doughball, BUT if you're really serious about catching lots of large carp, I'd take KRISPY KREME donuts and roll them into pea sized balls. Put one on a number eight egg hook, cast it out, and HANG ON!

Go to Yahoo and search for carp fishing in England.

Carp fishing is absolutely HUGE there - they have resorts on lakes for people that go there to fish for carp. There are TONS of websites that talk about how to target them.

They use these really weird rigs with a type of hardened ball about the size of a marble.

I was working with a guy from over there since we have been trying to develop a better carp fishery here at Vancouver Lake.

Course, my boss wouldn't pay for a trip to England so I could REALLY figure out how they catch them!!

At any rate, you should find all sorts of great things to try.