Carp and other Rough fish pics

[TonyKay]

[Fordo]

Caught this huge Buffalo fish out of a canoe on 8lb test on the Mississippi River in southern MN.

[srfishin15]

That thing is HUGE!!!

[StillwaterAaron]

Fordo that is a nice bigmouth buff!

[DEADhead]

nice Sea Donkey there Fordo!

[Ralph Wiggum]

Total sow. What'd you catch it on?

[carpmanjake]

i know snappers arent roughfish... but... got this big girl in july, biggest snapper i have ever caught, picture doesnt do it any justice... the bottom of the shell was 20+" across. (my hands fingers fully spread out, tip of pinky finger, to tip of the thumb is about 9" and there was at least an inch over the end of each finger

[Fordo]

I got her on a crawler walleye fishing. Didn't know what it was when I caught it. lol

[AuggieDawg11]

Dan Rodewald (DrRodey) and his first bowfin from last night!

i hooked into 2 bowfin last night. the first one was a monster! but it tangled in the anchor rope, and we couldnt get the net under it with all its splashing around, and it pulled off! the other one just through the hook.. i was horsing them in quite a bit because i was using my heavy rod so that was probably the main reason. we were float fishing with cut bait.

but we wasted a whole bunch of time fishing for snappers before the bowfin bite.

i saw the first one and wanted to catch it, and his was the only one set up with a heavy bobber and a big hook. and it broke his rod... oops!

so after that dan wanted to catch his first snapper. and we were having them come up all around us, then dive back down. like they were trying to ambush us. lol. it wasnt working too well because they were leaving a huge trail of bubbles from the bottom.

number 2! feisty thing..

i also caught one while fishing for bowfin. (was actually the one dan was going for lol)

no picture because it was bleeding a bit from the hook wound

Nice snappers. Even cooler YM shirt too!

[1sfer]

Question: How do you unhook the snapper without loosing a finger?

[jasoncap]

nice buffalo what kind of bait did you use?

[carpmanjake]

Nice snappers. Even cooler YM shirt too!

ah, a your memorial fan as well? they played here in alex a few times.

[carpmanjake]

Question: How do you unhook the snapper without loosing a finger?

pull the line back toward its shell. the snapper will sink its head into its shell with its mouth open. hold the line tight, and use a long pliers.

[mainbutter]

Snapping turtles are the new rough fish

I LOVE it!

[carpmanjake]

Snapping turtles are the new rough fish

I LOVE it!

lol, they dont fight to well like real rough fish... but they are a handfull (as shown in the pictures) when getting them out of the water. lol

[fishuhalik]

Geez jake, you'll fish for anything won't ya? I guess you can't really call it fishing, is turtling a real word?

[carpmanjake]

Geez jake, you'll fish for anything won't ya? I guess you can't really call it fishing, is turtling a real word?

lol ya. me and dan were wasting time fishing for panfish waiting for the sun to start setting so we could fish for bowfin. and we tried caatching any snapper that popped up

[carpmanjake]

the past 2 days i have been fishing around fergus. i left late at night on monday (well... it was 1 am tuesday morning to be exact...)

i arrived at orwell around 2 am. and did a little bit of scouting and found hundreds of fish gulping the surface of the water. idk if they were carp or buffalo. but after a while of fishing i finally hooked one. and got it withing hands reach, it looked like a buff with its plump head. i reached down and just barely touched it it took off and threw the hook. dang it! normally i consider touching a fish catching it... but it doesnt count because i have no idea if it was actually a buff.

i couldnt get any to bite after that, then i headed to a new spot. and parked for a few hours. i woke up at 6 and scouted the new area. right as i got to the waters edge i spotted a nice bigmouth buff! probably in the mid teens to 20lb range. but i didnt have my rod. the spot looked promising, i went back to the car and got my rod, and started fishing. i focused my efforts on stalking because of the ammount of fish i was seeing feeding along the shore. carp, buffs, shorthead redhorse, silver redhorse, white sucker.

the small smallmouth bass posed a threat on every cast toward a feeding fish... taking the worm before it even hit bottom... but i kept trying to no avail

so i went below the dam, and was catching carp pretty consistantly, then i stumbled upon a small stream flowing into the river that was FULL of nice smallies!

i was fishing anywhere from just enough water to cover their backs, to 3 feet where the river and creek merge. it was so much fun sight fishing for those beautiful fish! and given how many nice ones i caught, i lost just as many! some even bigger!

i went back above the dam, and looked under an overhanging tree and saw a couple carp sucking around lazily among the limbs. i sat and watched them, until a nice 5-6lb bigmouth buff swam in amongst them! i stalked and fished that guy for almost a half hour all the way down the shoreline to the dam, but he showed absolutely no interest in my bait! DANG IT! it was really cool fishing for him just like i fish for lake winona carp here in alex. he was so close to shore i could just drop the worm right in his face

i went back to the smallies for the rest of the stay there, checking for buffs periodically to no avail.

i know where i will be going again sometime in the near future!

[1sfer]

Question: How do you unhook the snapper without loosing a finger?

pull the line back toward its shell. the snapper will sink its head into its shell with its mouth open. hold the line tight, and use a long pliers.

Neat! I'm still not looking forward to hook a turtle though.

Nice smallies btw.

[BartmanMN]

My first ever carp on Ultra light rod. That was a fun fight.

[Paul_Kramer]

pull the line back toward its shell. the snapper will sink its head into its shell with its mouth open. hold the line tight, and use a long pliers.

All the turtles I get catfishing do the same pull-their-head-in trick too, but when you go in with a pliers, BANG, they lunge out at you. Just make sure you've got a long enough pliers. On some bigger ones, I just try prying it out with a long forked stick or cut the line. The softshells seem to be even worse, with the longer neck.

[carpmanjake]

All the turtles I get catfishing do the same pull-their-head-in trick too, but when you go in with a pliers, BANG, they lunge out at you. Just make sure you've got a long enough pliers. On some bigger ones, I just try prying it out with a long forked stick or cut the line. The softshells seem to be even worse, with the longer neck.

thats why you pull the line backward toward their tail, and hold it as tight as you can, it keeps the head in the shell, or at least slows down a strike ALOT. ill post a video of how i do it sometime soon.

[carpmanjake]

got my first bigmouth buffalo this morning! but since i moved to the new house, i do not have internet. so i will be stopping by my grandmas tomorrow to post pics. i am on the work comp right now (holiday inn)

[OnAFly]

On a 6wt fly rod. First run went 10 yards into my backing.

[carpmanjake]

fergus trip... last trip of the summer.

sight fishing for silvers

thisone was quite lucky to still be alive...

a cool looking little carp

the other side was PERFECT though