Common Carp Oregon

Birthday Carp

I was looking through some old photos and I found this picture of the 25 lb Common Carp's tail, and I was just amazed...

My girlfriend and I started our hike at Kelley Point Park in order to find some Carp. A little rule I like to follow during the warmer seasons is 20% of the fish is in 80% of the water. In winter, 90% of the fish is in 10% of the water if this makes any sense at all.

Here is a picture of my beautiful girlfriend who came out to fish with me like always. I'm thankful I got a gf that loves to fish.

I'm not sure wtf I was doing in this picture

Here is pic of a nice 6 lb Common Carp

All in All We caught 2 Carp in 2 hours of fishing....A 6 lber and an 11 lber, so it was a great day before the rain starts again...I hope it doesn't rain 15 DAYS IN A ROW like when Fall just started which really depressed me...

This picture I like to call Fishing Inception. Anyways click on the picture to see a full view and you'll know what I mean

So the day before that fishing day above, was my 25th Birthday and I got a fishing hat and a bunch of Carp fishing gear for my birthday. My co-worker wisely asked me what kind of rigs, hooks, equipment, etc he need in order to go Carp fishing because he supposedly was going to try it out himself...surprisingly he took those notes and bought me fishing gear. I used those gifts to catch the fish above. I think I might make a thread on what stuff to buy for Carp Still Fishing....My girlfriend bought me a laptop so now I'm here editing a few fishing videos that I will post up here soon....

River Monsters+ App

Just showing off a somewhat new App called the River Monster+ App. It's basically like the Facebook App but for fishing.

A new characteristic is that it shows the biggest fish of a species in a specific waterway.

This is one of the first pics I saw from the app. This guy logged in where he caught and how he caught this magnificent beast

Here is the 25 lber I caught at Salish Pond using a white hair rigged bread ball dipped in strawberry syrup, and the 18 lber I caught at Chinook Landing Backwaters using corn, but I got lucky and snagged it instead. Basically what happened is I left my bait out there for like 30 minutes, and when I decided to leave, I picked up the rod and jerked it and it felt like I snagged something, until it started pulling a little then swam directly at me, then exploded left for two minutes straight. I'll upload the full/long/agonizing long video soon. The crowns in the pics represent the biggest fish of its species at that specific waterway aka the king of the water.

So far I've been fishing the Columbia Slough a lot lately but I haven't yet caught "the king of carp". I know so far that the biggest Carp caught off the slough is a 18 lber, unless you guys have proof of something bigger.

Here is a picture of the feed. The feed is practically exactly like Instagrams feed but the left navigation box which I'll show in a bit is like facebook apps left navigation box

You can click analyze to see other locations where this lure has worked or look up all the catches that have been caught with the lure.

Here is a pic of a fish caught and shown in the feed along with comments. For some reason the new update is not letting me reply or comment others...

It's cool how it logs in where your at in a fishing trip like a GPS and shows the weather, water temperature, and your type of bait.

Here is the left navigation box that looks like the one in the facebook app.

Here are some pictures of some catches

So join the River Monsters+ App/follow me and follow me on Instagram at igquick

tight lines

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.

11 lb Common Carp

Caught at Kelley Point Park at the Columbia Slough.

Last Summer Carp

I've been testing out what's the minimum amount of bait I would have to use in correlation to lake size, river size, and stream size this Summer. I've came to the conclusion that if you are fishing a medium sized lake (100 acres-1000 acres) you would need to add a method to your rig like the one below for extra scent to attract carp:

A method is basically that extra glob of bait in which I wrapped around my sliding sinker and swivel for extra scent.

OR

you can use a double hook rig like the one below BUT I WOULD USE HAIR RIGS INSTEAD OF THE SINGLE CIRCLE HOOKS. Also you would have less tangles if one leader is longer than the other. For example one being 19 inches and another being 8 inches:

I've also found that in Lakes that are smaller, rivers, or streams, I could get away with just a single hookbait. The scent of the single hook bait is just enough to cover a significant area of a small lake, and the scent disperses really well in current such as a river or a stream. For example fishing Kelley Point Park with a single hook bait works great:

The largest one of the day was this 11 lber that took about 10 minutes to reel in:

I would've uploaded some sort of video footage of that day and other successful fishing trips I had last Summer but my Windows Movie Maker is broken for some odd reason

Van Zyl Reservoir

I checked out the Van Zyl Reservoir in Clackamas in order to stalk big fish, but the only thing big that was stalking me was this Swan or Goose or whatever it is. It literally followed my girl and I as we walked around the Reservoir, and it even followed me up the sidewalk to my car.