Fishing Collage

299 Fish

I decided to challenge myself and see how much fish I can catch for 3 hours. Luckily, bluegill and small bass are really aggressive!

 

 

Picture on the left: Caught around 90...Picture on the right: Caught over 200+ bluegill

 

Look what a Beaver did

 

Look at those colors!

 

 

After I went sunfish and small bass fishing for 2.5 hours, I decided to hit up Salish Ponds for more small fish fun; but I managed to stop by Chinook Landing just to see how the backwaters were doing. Luckily, I was in for a suprise and managed to catch 5 Carp! Too bad my phone was dead by now from recording videos of sunfish. Anyways, the Carp were around 7 lbs each. In the end, I caught 294 sunfish and small bass in 2.5 hours; then caught 5 Carp in an hour. So 299 fish in 3.5 hours which is not bad.

 

So the next day I wanted to catch some Carp again, but instead, this happened:

I bet you can't guess what did this to me. Definitely Karma for tormenting so much fish the day before.

25 lb Common Carp Video

My fishing music video

This video contains some clips that I haven't released on the internet yet, but it also includes some of the old.

I made this video to capture the excitement, the pressure, focus, the fun, and the hard work which culminates to landing a fish so yall could experience my experiences the way I portray them...please ENJOY!

An old picture video

New fishing app

Check out this new fishing app! Im sure expert fisherman and novices alike would love this app...it shows the world map and pinpoints exact locations where certain fish have been caught, along with what bait, etc...."River Monsters+" app

Making The Bread Hair Rig

How to make the same bread hair rig that resulted in nearly all the Carp I’ve caught so far, including the huge 25 lber:

I’ve heard that the hair rig works really well for stocked trout. This crazy guy in the video uses Carp fishing techniques to catch stock trout lol:

RIVER MONSTER CARP! & Karp Herpes

Pictures speak louder than words:

Im in a very good mood so im going to tell you guys the main reason why i was able to catch this fish.

A youtube video popped up on my feed about how the carp fishing company called "Korda" has just came out with their own glugs. Glugs are basically watery liquid OR syrup that you apply on your bait. The reason why "Korda" developed their own glug is because the South Africans keep winning the "National Carp Championship", and their secret was the use of glugs.

The website called http://www.underwatersecrets.co.uk/ has given me VAST knowledge of carp behavior and fishing. So much that EVERY VIDEO they have put out has helped me immensely. On top of that, the average length of each video is 2 minutes long so it is very easy to take in. Anyways their last video showed how carp would always strike at the glugged bait, regardless if there are a ton of non glugged baits in the area.

Then i seen more videos on why more syrup type glugs are better because they surround the whole area with a colorful scent

So i havent caught a carp at one of my favorite locations for SIX MONTHS using my hair rigged white bread ball. I am going to regret telling my secret but i rather inspire than to post a big fish and gloat about it. I bathed those hair rigs with strawberry syrup, and casted it out. An hour later and a school of about 15 males rushed my swim, and i have never seen this before, and i think the fat female of the group striked my bait.

 

On another note, here is another trip:

BEWARE...the following images may give you karp herpes

Anyways, had a great time catching carp like always. Caught about 18 Carp in 3-4 hours of fishing using a hair rigged bread ball, but most of them were about a pound, ranging from less than a pound to around 5 lbs.

Strange enough, most of my fish were hooked on the chin. I think what was happening is there would be a feeding frenzy around my hookbait, and eventually one of them would get hooked. The rest of the fish were hooked normally on the lip.

 

Caught a few more

Had a few hours to spare so I decided to go fishing one late afternoon and maybe try some fly fishing.

I noticed there wasn't as much sunning carp as usual so I decided to use my corn set-up instead of going straight to fly fishing. I caught 7 of them all around 6-7 lbers, but I wish I hooked into those 15+ lbers I could see sunning. I got a lot of bites and missed a lot, which could be those irregularly small carp I used to catch last summer.

So after an hour of that, I decided to try fly fishing since more sunners and roaming carp were showing up. It was a disaster to begin with, because I noticed I couldn't even see my fly when I dipped it in the water because the water visibilty was like a foot. Also, I'm halfway or a quarter way up the hill, like in the picture shown, and I keep snagging onto the hill behind me; so complete fail.

On a positive note, at least I managed to hook into a few, and I'm a lot more comfortable casting with a fly rod; unless there is an obstruction behind me.

Carp Snagging

*I don’t condone to snagging fish anymore, BUT I believe all the fish I released back after being snagged were unharmed. Believe it or not, nearly all fish I have hooked in the mouth or foul hooked from still fishing almost always resulted in blood in the mouth or on the chin area, whereas none of the carp I snagged drew no or very little blood*

 

So first time I accidentally snagged a gigantic 18 lber, casting all the way to the other side... I've also heard there are tons of carp on the other side

Second day, I walk all the way to the other side where there's a huge hill, and see no fish

third day, I go there again and the weather is a lot warmer, and I see hundreds of them, but none of them will eat bread

fourth day, I try a bait that has caught me lots of carp at this place, corn....but it still doesn't work...so now I'm angry and try snagging them, and caught huge scales, and dropped my keys in which I had to search for them for an HOUR

fifth day, my mind is set on snagging, and I made a rig specifically for it. By the way I can't tell you how many times I fell down this damn hill and being seen by other people that are fishing, but I really didn't care because they didn't catch anything anyways. I ended up catching 6 in an hour, and probably fell down the hill 6 times that day but it was worth it. The absolute best part of it was, I have NEVER seen carp jump so high while being hooked. They were easily jumping 3 feet off the surface and trying to shake the hook off their tale, it was an amazing sight to see. Not only that, but the fish would never give up unlike being hooked in the mouth. It was like I was hooking steelhead on crack. Too bad I couldn't get the jumping on film...

18 lb common carp

The only reason I showed up to a Columbia River backwater was because a fortune cookie told me to take a risk today.

The video below is footage of me fighting the fish including landing it. On my youtube channel, there is a longer version of me fighting the fish, in which the footage is I think around 12 minutes long? In all honesty though, it took me 20 minutes from start to finish. USUALLY carp between the 15 lb to 19 lb range take the longest. As John Montana likes to call them, the APEX ATHLETES.

 

Epic Carp fishing!

Here is a nice Carp I caught sight fishing with my corn rig! Definitely the strongest sight fished Carp I ever caught so far, and she made my fishing reel sing! Another thing I love about this Carp is that I caught this one during the hardest Carp fishing month ever: DECEMBER!!!!!!!!!!! Sight fishing for Carp is the most nerve wracking thing you can do that will TEST your patience. I managed to land 6 of these babies:

 

On another fishing trip, I had an even MORE EPIC day than the sight fishing for carp last December. I caught over 20+ Carp at Kelley Point Park!!!!!! So far, I've only caught more than twenty carp on one other trip, and that was at Salish. Here are some pictures of this truly EPIC fishing trip:

 

I need a belt and a net:

 

What trash fish have I been fishin lately?

I've been trying to go carp fishing lately but the only thing I was catching in my carp swim is ducks and frogs. In terms of feeding, I think it depends on how the season has been because last fall I was catching a lot more and it was definitely a hotter year than this year.

I've probably caught about 4 of these so far lol, but don't worry none of them get hooked because of the hair rig I run on my hook; they just get tangled and I got to reel them in and untangle them.

What I have been doing is fishing for some squawfish and some sucker fish or anything else that eats these bread balls, no pun intended. It’s awesome because the squawfish I’ve been catching have been averaging around 16 inches.

Big pikeminnow

Sadly it isn't mine, but my girlfriend caught a 19 inch pikeminnow. Caught with a hair rigged white bread ball with a white bread "method" and you could find the specifics of this rig on my blog shown in my signature. This was caught in the Clackamas River at Clackamette Park, but I'm not going to be more specific than that on location. Between me and her, this one is the biggest one we've caught so far. I think it weighed 3 lbs and some change.

My first sturgeon

Caught my first sturgeon with worms after watching another couple do it the day before...was an awesome fight with my 8 lb line fluorocarbon

Story of a Capture!

*Sorry I haven't been posting in a while, what happened is that google+ kept uploading all my personal stuff to the internet and OF COURSE they have to make it extremely difficult/sketchy when trying to prevent it. So I guess once I made my google+ private, it also made my youtube videos private and also made my whole entire channel non existent. So sorry to the VERY FEW people that follow this blog, but I had to fix all this crap before comming back to this blog*

So here are a couple of videos and I'll just let them do the talking:

This second video is the end of the above video, BUT I GET SLAPPED BY THE HUGE CARP!

Beginning of Fall

*Note that youtube is messing with my channel right now and it cannot be viewed at the time of this post*

I usually catch bigger at Chinook Landing but here is a little guy:

I’ve caught a lot of these guys here, but I have also caught a few 5 lbers as well. I can’t seem to find these pictures for some reason.

As you enter Chinook Landing, you would enter these small gates that have SALMON on it. It’s kind of hard to miss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People keep asking me about the Salmon gates, but if you take one second of your life, and look on google maps or earth, you could visually see it. Anyways once you enter the salmon gates, you will see two bodies of water on your right and one backwater on your left. They all have carp in it. The rigs that I don’t use because I don’t like hooking worms anymore, BUT they work decently well out here is a normal nightcrawler rig either on the float but I would rather preffer off the bottom.

Another thing I am going to harp about is people keep asking me what kind of rig or bait do you use? I get asked this at least a few times a day, well my answer is always going to be its ON MY BLOG. All Carp, Catfish, Pikeminnow, and on accident some bluegill were caught off my “MY CARP RIGS” entry. You can find that under one of the dates listed on the right side of my blog.

 

The rig I personally like to use the most at Chinook landing is MY CORN RIG. Once again specifics on it is located in “MY CARP RIGS” entry.

This pic below is a larger carp, but what I love about it is the off white color!!!

 

I just thought this pic below was funny when I saw it, but I forgot where I got it from:

 

Here is a pic of what a carp did to my net, and YES it broke my net like it was made out of string. In the pic you could kind of make out some fishing line on it, because I tried to fix the hole with 20 lb fishing line. Something tells me this net will never work again so I just keep it as a reference to how strong Carp are. The story behind the net is that I was sight fishing for carp, and when I set the hook, this guy next to me netted it within one second of me setting the hook. Rule number one when fighting a carp, always, I mean ALWAYS LET THE CARP RUN. I always give a large carp one legitimate run before landing him. Believe it or not, I always land my carp without a net just like my first carp. You get a better connection with the fish, you should try it!

 

Title: Brother vs. Carp

Finally got my little brother on some Carp from various locations:

Kelley Point Park Carp

My girlfriend and I went fishing at Kelley Point Park for the first time. I forgot how many we caught that day, but here are the pics and we also managed to take a short video: