Fishing can be an expensive sport, just ask my wife. But just because some of us go ape crazy and buy every little fishing gadget on the market, doesn’t mean you have to. If you want to take your kid fishing or if you want to get into catfishing it doesn’t have to be expensive. […]
There are a lot of carp fishing rigs to choose from but the best beginner is a simple fish finder rig or inline lead type rig. The simple inline lead rigs are very sensitive, they are easy to tie and the require very little stuff to buy. I have caught a lot of carp on […]
Making some fancy tinfoil dinners in the fireplace is not a bad alternative to fishing in a winter storm. Its snowing and sleeting outside. The water is high and muddy and its brutally miserable outside. You gotta know when to call it and stay home. So, what does a fisherman do when a winter storm […]
This post is a cautionary tale. Learn from my mistakes. So its January and I am itching to do some winter carp fishing. My saintly wife agrees to spend her Saturday morning watching our boy so that I can accidentally wake her up getting out of bed at 5:45am. The car was packed the night […]
Fishing for carp in the winter time can be a tricky matter. When the weather gets cold the fish often change locations and school up. One of the big changes is that carps’ metabolisms slow down and their ability to digest food also is reduced. This means that when winter fishing, you need to chum […]
Making sure your fishing hooks are razor sharp is absolutely essential. By the time you realize that you got a bite the fish the hook point has usually either driven home or been spat out. When fish a feeding cautiously (the way that most trophy fish do) you cannot rely on the fish to hook […]
Alligator Gar Even if you are a stranger to this website you should already know my opinion regarding catching catfish and carp. Get out there and try it if you haven’t already. However, we have some amazing native freshwater fish species here in North America and many of the best are utterly ignored by the […]
Carpsuckers (quillback, highfin and river carpsuckers) can be loads of fun but are tricky to target and catch on purpose. The suckers, or Catostomidae, are the North American native fish that is closest to the carp in looks and behavior but they are not closely related. In the US we have the bigmouth buffalo, the […]
It is important to know when do carp spawn because by the time you see eggs and carp thrashing about in the weeds, you have likely already missed half of the season’s best fishing. If you want to capitalize on the great fishing that occurs pre-spawn as well as during the spawn you need to […]
