Fall Carp

I'm pretty sure I made a post a while back talking about how I lost a Carp using an ice fishing rod strapped with 6 lb test line, in which the fish managed to run into a snag, and SNAP THE LINE. Well I managed to buy this new fishing line below:

This caught my eye in the store because for one, it was 20 freakin bucks which to me is very expensive, the name spiderwire is very catchy in my opinion, and it is 20 lb test line with a diameter of a supposedly 6 lb test line. So I thought replacing my fishing line from my ice fishing rod would be genius!

The line is EXTREMELY HARD TO CUT and George Permiakov of http://fishoregon.blogspot.com/ recommended I rather use Powerpro but I didn't see it last time I was at Wal-Mart. 

So anyways I made some new hair rigs, fixed three fishing rods, and set out to Kelley Point Park and hiked my way around the Columbia Slough to find a fishing spot. Once I got settled, I casted three hair rigs:

...and was able to catch 6 bullhead catfish in around 1 hour and a half of fishing. Catching bullhead is not too bad for a fishing session but my goal was to land the big fish. It was kind of hard avoiding these little buggers, so I went out on a limb and used this rig instead:

I managed to land 6 Carp in the next hour and a half:

The averaged weight of Carp was probably around 9 lbs.

A lady randomly showed up to my swim and asked me if she could fish next to me, which reminded me of a funny occurrence that happened when I found fishing again. I know I probably told this story in the beginning of this blog, but I remember two people trying to bully me out of a fishing spot. Keep in mind there was probably about 75 yards of free fishing space, yet they had to fish right next to me. So I got really hostile and kicked them out of my spot. For one, I would never try to kick another fishermen out of their spot. One of the most important quotes I learned this year is to "Treat people the way you want to be treated". Try it one week, or a month, or a year; you might find yourself out of the social awkwardness that most people have. 

So I'm really happy that the fellow fisherman lady asked really politely. She said she was there for the catfish and I told her where I kept catching them, I told her that the worm would probably work significantly more better than my hair rigged bread bait since the catfish in the Columbia Slough love worms, I let her borrow one of my rod holders, and I let her keep one of my fishing bells which takes out the middle man of second guessing whether or not the current is making the rod move or if it is a fish. The way I use the bell is that you could fix it to where it would only ring if there was a bite, and not the current. If you set up the bell on a rod after you cast, just wait 10 seconds for the bell to be noiseless, but if it isn't, just move the bell down the rod, until it is able to be noiseless. So the bell would only ring if a fish where to take a bite, not if the current moved the tip of the rod, and I hope this makes sense so far. Anyways I also gave some helpful hints that her fishing rod was too big, there was not enough line in her reel, that she should buy this and that, and I taught her to be very careful about the spines on the bullhead. It might sound like I'm invading but in the end, she was able to catch numerous amounts of catfish and she said it was her most successful day of fishing.

So the moral of the story for today is, "Treat others the way you would want to be treated" because you never know that the random act of kindness could lead you into your most successful fishing day.