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A carp is to intelligent to be caught!


Dave H

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Does anyone remember being a kid and anglers saying that a carp was a very intelligent fish and it can’t be caught? If you went to school they never believed it if you saw one let alone caught one...

Funny old days!


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Isn't that the basis of all the modern crap gear...damn spelling I mean carp gear, :)

To fool the über cunning ninja carp that has grown old and wise and certainly won't ever be caught with a piece of Tesco value bread floating on the surface!

I mean c'mon! Any fish you need to buy marker pens to colour in your terminal tackle fir must have gone to cunning college and passed a course in being cunning!

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Yeah but just think we would have never had fries from them or burgers from scotland (mcdonalds) or kebabs and curries and chinese from the east. Fosters from Australia or Lager from germany and wine from those damn monks again

Forget terrorism this is a cunning plan to make us self destruct. The carp angler being rather light in the head area has fallen for all of these to a monstrous degree as mentioned all are taken in large quantities.

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A fish has to eat ,you use what it eats as bait the hard bit is pretending your not using it as bait.

I have seen carp ignoring floating crust on a hook for days and weeks then the carp you are after suddenly grabs it when another carp gos for it

Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

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To catch a carp you need to have really expensive shiny gear, no point trying to catch on a standard rig, go must use something with leadcore and you must use really expensive boiles, and a lot of them too. No point using bread or sweatcorn or worm it MUST be carp bait. What also helps if you wear expensive fishing clothing and I would always advise a bivvy and NEVER travel light always use a barrow. If you use a rucksack you will be frowned upon☺☺☺

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Simply they may well have been harder to catch, fewer of them and inhabiting waters with plenty of natural food. Now on many waters they make up the bulk of the fish biomass and on a good number of waters they NEED your bait to exist. But the same need for anglers freebies could be said about Tench & Bream on many waters.

 

So to a certain extent they may have appeared more intelligent yesteryear due to the lower stock. The hardest species to catch from a water is the one with just a handful of representatives.

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Stephen

 

Species Caught 2014

Zander, Pike, Bream, Roach, Tench, Perch, Rudd, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Eel, Grayling, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout

Species Caught 2013

Pike, Zander, Bream, Roach, Eel, Tench, Rudd, Perch, Common Carp, Koi Carp, Brown Goldfish, Grayling, Brown Trout, Chub, Roosterfish, Dorado, Black Grouper, Barracuda, Mangrove Snapper, Mutton Snapper, Jack Crevalle, Tarpon, Red Snapper

Species Caught 2012
Zander, Pike, Perch, Chub, Ruff, Gudgeon, Dace, Minnow, Wels Catfish, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Roach, Bream, Eel, Rudd, Tench, Arapaima, Mekong Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Marbled Tiger Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Thai Redtail Catfish, Batrachian Walking Catfish, Siamese Carp, Rohu, Julliens Golden Prize Carp, Giant Gourami, Java Barb, Red Tailed Tin Foil Barb, Nile Tilapia, Black Pacu, Red Bellied Pacu, Alligator Gar
Species Caught 2011
Zander, Tench, Bream, Chub, Barbel, Roach, Rudd, Grayling, Brown Trout, Salmon Parr, Minnow, Pike, Eel, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Koi Carp, Crucian Carp, F1 Carp, Blue Orfe, Ide, Goldfish, Brown Goldfish, Comet Goldfish, Golden Tench, Golden Rudd, Perch, Gudgeon, Ruff, Bleak, Dace, Sergeant Major, French Grunt, Yellow Tail Snapper, Tom Tate Grunt, Clown Wrasse, Slippery Dick Wrasse, Doctor Fish, Graysby, Dusky Squirrel Fish, Longspine Squirrel Fish, Stripped Croaker, Leather Jack, Emerald Parrot Fish, Red Tail Parrot Fish, White Grunt, Bone Fish
Species Caught 2010
Zander, Pike, Perch, Eel, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Mirror Carp, Common Carp, Crucian Carp, Siamese Carp, Asian Redtail Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Rohu, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Pacu, Long Tom, Moon Wrasse, Sergeant Major, Green Damsel, Tomtate Grunt, Sea Chub, Yellowtail Surgeon, Black Damsel, Blue Dot Grouper, Checkered Sea Perch, Java Rabbitfish, One Spot Snapper, Snubnose Rudderfish
Species Caught 2009
Barramundi, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Wallago Leeri Catfish, Wallago Attu Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Mrigul, Siamese Carp, Java Barb, Tarpon, Wahoo, Barracuda, Skipjack Tuna, Bonito, Yellow Eye Rockfish, Red Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, Black Fin Snapper, Dog Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Marble Grouper, Black Fin Tuna, Spanish Mackerel, Mutton Snapper, Redhind Grouper, Saddle Grouper, Schoolmaster, Coral Trout, Bar Jack, Pike, Zander, Perch, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Common Carp, Golden Tench, Wels Catfish
Species Caught 2008
Dorado, Wahoo, Barracuda, Bonito, Black Fin Tuna, Long Tom, Sergeant Major, Red Snapper, Black Damsel, Queen Trigga Fish, Red Grouper, Redhind Grouper, Rainbow Wrasse, Grey Trigger Fish, Ehrenbergs Snapper, Malabar Grouper, Lunar Fusiler, Two Tone Wrasse, Starry Dragonet, Convict Surgeonfish, Moonbeam Dwarf Angelfish,Bridled Monocle Bream, Redlined Triggerfish, Cero Mackeral, Rainbow Runner
Species Caught 2007
Arapaima, Alligator Gar, Mekong Catfish, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Pacu, Siamese Carp, Barracuda, Black Fin Tuna, Queen Trigger Fish, Red Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Honeycomb Grouper, Red Grouper, Schoolmaster, Cubera Snapper, Black Grouper, Albacore, Ballyhoo, Coney, Yellowfin Goatfish, Lattice Spinecheek

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Agree a lot with Dales, I reckon the Gudgeon is now the most intelligent fish. I never seem to catch them anymore, used to catch 100's of them as a kid. I reckon they've wised up to my float fished single maggot rig.

 

I need a new gudgeon rig!

 

Mat

Mat

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To catch a carp you need to have really expensive shiny gear, no point trying to catch on a standard rig, go must use something with leadcore and you must use really expensive boiles, and a lot of them too. No point using bread or sweatcorn or worm it MUST be carp bait. What also helps if you wear expensive fishing clothing and I would always advise a bivvy and NEVER travel light always use a barrow. If you use a rucksack you will be frowned upon☺☺☺

Done much Carp fishing then?

I find most methods and rigs have a time and a place as do various baits.

At a couple of venues I fish in the summer boilies are the only baits the hordes of small silver can't devastate or get in their mouths when targeting Tench, Bream, Carp or Crucians, at another I have only caught Big Perch on lures despite trying worms, prawns or dead baits.

RUDD

 

Different floats for different folks!

 

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