Carp Fishing Date

Shout-out to P. Saechao for helping me and my girl out. This was definitely one of the highlights of this Summer for me.

CARPE DIEM!!!!!!

Taking Fishing More Seriously

I'll try to keep this post as small as possible since a lot of things have been happening with my life.

First off I got a new job so I've been fishing a lot less lately but that's still not an excuse for the excessive SKUNK days. I've also been fishing with my girlfriend and the dogs just for fun, and not trying to catch anything at all; just enjoying the moment with her.

A lesson I learned about one of the skunk days is that I will never EVER use one of those dinky ice fishing rods filled with 6 lb test line for CARP FISHING. Long story short, I was fishing 2am at a spot that has produced MONSTROUS Carp. A big one took the bait and ran from the small two foot ice fishing rod, I picked up the rod, felt as if the Carp got tangled in the weeds, and broke the mainline. So my lesson is that I will never use any mainline less than 12 lb test as a rule of thumb.

Another thing that has happened to me is that I have been receiving free stuff from other fishermen. I think of it as a nice gesture from one fisherman to another, but my girlfriend calls it "fan mail".

One of these instances is this Carp Fisherman Guru sent me loads of stuff one day also, but I'll keep his name anonymous; so thanks Mr. Anonymous if you are reading this!!

I sometimes wonder if something great can come out of this like joining some Carp fishing tournaments, or even become some kind of Carp fishing guide and/or start charging people to fish with me; basically make fishing a way to earn some money.

You may think I'm crazy, but I honestly know a guy who has spent 1000 dollars on fishing licenses, and paying other fishing guides to help him catch fish. I'm going to let you guys/girls guess how many fish he has caught with all that money being spent, and I hope he doesn't end up reading this because it is pretty embarrassing.

Anyways here are some beasts from a more successful trip:

decent catfish, small squawfish.

I randomly went fishing to a few places with a buddy named M-Beezy. He caught 2 fish and I caught zero so he won, but the most surprising thing about it is he did a lot of things different than I did. I have to admit I was even using two rods at one point and I still didn't catch anything, only bites. The first location we went to was Chinook Landing at the mini slough. Once we got there, we already noticed that the slough turned into a stream, yet we tried fishing in it for Carp and managed to catch nothing. So after a half an hour we went to the bank of the main channel, you know the beachish area. 

Hung out with my girlfriend (yes the same one who caught that huge squawfish) before she left for work. Then M-Beezy came over and we played some call of duty and NBA2k13 til 3am with some taco bell (man date-ish). We decided to hit up Salish ponds at 4am and fished for two hours. The Carp were spawning literally EVERYWHERE! We were using the white breadball hair rig I have posted on my blog, but he was using a helicopter set up. I casted in the spot where I've been catching most of my carp in that lake, including the 25 lber, and he casted in a spot where there was a ton of weeds. I didn't tell him he should re-cast because he obviously has one fish over my 0, so he must be doing something right.He had an enormous bite in which we both knew it was a carp, but then he ran up to the rod, picked it up, and felt the power of a carp; BUT then he set the hook.....I forgot to tell him that you don't set the hook with a hair rigged circle hook. So I guess I have to take the blame for that. So we re casted and he got another bite, and THIS TIME he didn't set the hook. He managed to catch this catfish. I think he was around 13-16 inches long:

Beats getting skunked?

I don't even think this is post worthy but it's kind of funny. Definitely the biggest fish I have ever caught! I haven't been Carp fishing lately because I've kind of been busy lately; well more like lazy. 

I tried to go bluegill fishing but apparently, people keep fishing them out at Salish Ponds for some reason. So we only caught 1 fish:

Carp Climax

It's been WAY TOO long since I caught a Carp. I haven't caught one since Spring I think. I was going to go bluegill fishing one day, but when I got to my fishing spot, I noticed the fishing rod was broken.

So today I went Common Carp fishing and managed to catch I think 7 of them in around 2 hours of fishing. They were around 6 lbs, and I don't know specifics since I didn't weight them. Chinook Landing is a weird place to fish at. The bite definitely correlates to the water level in a weird way in its sloughs. Once the bite turns off, I have to avoid that place for 6 days to let the water either rise or recede. After that, fish on!

Here is a video that contains one of the fish secreting its juices onto my arm in which I didn't even notice but was laughing at the dripping from the fish. The second part of the video is just me releasing one of the Carp. I know this video may be a little disturbing to some, but I thought it was halarious. I was dying of laughter when I noticed it in the video footage at Carl's JR:

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.