Carp and other Rough fish pics

[carpmanjake]

tried orwell for a bit on day 2...

and here she is... my very first bigmouth buff!

[roughfish29]

sweet fish!

i love those silvers, i wish i could get into them more often

finally got your buff eh? how long did it take you to accomplish that? i've been on my bowfin obsession for going on 3 years now

[carpmanjake]

sweet fish!

i love those silvers, i wish i could get into them more often

finally got your buff eh? how long did it take you to accomplish that? i've been on my bowfin obsession for going on 3 years now

its been over a year i know for a fact... lol

whats funny was that the same creek i was getting all the nice smallies last time, was full of silvers this time. and only a few smallies

you could finish your bowfin quest any day, just get up to alex and ill get you into at least one. lol

[roughfish29]

i definitely won't make it out to alex any time soon. my house got smashed by a tornado and i'm living in a hotel right now. that means no fishing

one of these days jake, one of these days........

[roughfish29]

here's the story of my friends first river redhorse he got while we were fishing together a couple weeks ago

he told the story better than i could so these are his words

roughfish29's friend wrote:

Quote:

as crazy ridiculous insane amazing incredible unlikely and unheard of as it is i managed to catch my lifelist river redhorse on a clouser.. ok so lets start at the beggining. today me and ben (roughfish29) headed out to do some fishing. we started off at a pond near my house and caught a few bass and i got my first bullhead on a fly. i showed him a secret pond that i doubt gets any pressure and is home to my pb black crappie along with lots of bass bluegill and ive even heard of trout in there. we got a few fish and decided we should head out to the st croix for the day and fish smallmouth. i got a pretty big largemouth wich is pretty uncommon down there in the rocky area where i caught it. we got a few decent smallmouth ben missed a solid 3lb'r and i missed either a pike or musky on my streamer and also ended up getting a bass followed by a large pike later on but as hard as we tried we didnt come up with anything special. we decided to hit one last spot for the night and call it quits. i was standing out on a rocky shallow point casting around a clouser and catching smallmouth after smallmouth but no big ones. i looked in the water right by my feet less than 6 feet away and see a big fish right there. i didnt know what it was at first till i noticed the red tail. it was a big redhorse and it was feeding. my spinning rod with the crawler on it was up on shore and i would have to walk past it to get to it. ben was set up but didnt wanna risk spooking it and also he only had on 4 lb mono on his ultralight. i figured it was worth a shot to put the clouser in front of it and just see how it reacted and to my suprise it sprung forward and tried to suck it in only to spit it back out before i could set the hook. i was shaking i was so excited. the fish was still right in front of me so i kept trying to recreate the exact thing i did when it first showed interest. it started to move away from me towards deeper water but i still had an ok view of it. the fish would surely be gone soon if it kept going the direction it was so i figured id have one last chance and i tossed the fly in front of it and let it fall to the bottom just as i had before. i saw the fish slowly move towards it and i strained to look and see what was happening. i watched the fish move down to where the fly was and move around as if it was digging through the rocks for food. the next thing i saw made my heart start pounding so hard. its mouth started moving. i could just barely see the fleck of white on the bottom that was my fly. i gave it one last tiny tiny twitch and let it sit. then i see my line lurch forward just a bit and i set the hook. nothing could have prepared me for what happened next. the fish took off like a freight train into deeper water and peeled out line. i got it turned back around and towards the sandbar. ben came running out into the water and we both tried our hardest to land it. ben had it bear hugged at least twice and it still got out of his grip. it was slapping him in the face with its head and tail and he could not get a hold of it. i finally got the fish close enough to me so i just set my rod down on the rocks and made an attempt to grab it. the fish was so insanly strong i cant even describe it. it took me a pretty long time to even get it out of the water for a picture. we did not have a measuring tape or any way to weigh it so i would love to hear your best estimate. we are thinkin 6-9lbs 25-28 inch.

its always been tradition to lick your new lifelisters and river redhorse dont really taste like anything... but for the record i did NOT lick my lifelist bowfin

and last picture i have. awesome blooper shot. when i said this fish was strong i meant it. luckily for the fish i did not drop it i was able to get a hold of it again

[abcnerdd]

Nice buffalo, Jake!

[roughfish29]

i finally manged to get my first carp via fly rod today. i've put in alot of time and a ton of research so i'm super pumped about this fish.

it took a bead head wholly bugger slowly twitched along the bottom of a small drop off

i thought for sure that my cutthroat from colorado would be my nominee for my best fish of 2010. now i'm not so sure

it really had that corn-on-the-cob look to it. check out the different colored scales

[DEADhead]

nice work Ben

[TonyKay]

went out to the river the last couple of days and these guys were exploding on the spoons. this isnt the biggest of the day but the only one i got a picture of before the camera died Very good multi-specie day that included bowfin, sheepshead, northern, walleye, a snagged mirror carp and some smallies.

[TonyKay]

i've been on my bowfin obsession for going on 3 years now

i see your from Farmington....go the vermilion south of Hastings and your sure to get into a couple

[carpmanjake]

thats a pretty little bowfin!

[reinhard1]

bowfin, dogfish- these fish have an attitude like no other. i seen one once under some lilly pads and i was close enough to tap him one his head a few times with my spinnerbait, well all at once he smashed it-i caught him and realeased him- but my spinnerbait seen its last day. good luck.

[TonyKay]

yeah they have to be one of the most aggressive native fish. That's what makes them so fun.

[TonyKay]

so nice to get back on the river now that the water levels have come down again

[DEADhead]

A couple of silvers from this afternoon:

[roughfish29]

nice fish guys, i did alright today

[Stick500]

so I take it that suckers get active in the streams again in the fall like they are in the spring?

and I image they love chowing down on crawlers?

beautiful pics above, especially the backlit sucker!

[OnAFly]

DEADhead - that silver pic looks pretty cool in black and white

[roughfish29]

thanks!

the suckers are really biting right now. more white suckers, but redhorse are mixed in as well.

crawlers are the magic bait!

[Dutch55406]

Yes the suckers have been biting, but had no luck on crawler this morning so I tried some corn and got this guy

31in 15.5lbs

[roughfish29]

nice! i've gotta get down to that spot soon

[Dutch55406]

Hey Rough,

You got some nice catches also, and you know where I'm fishing from my post on the other forum. Here is a pair of 27" from Saturday

[Lunker]

Considering I may have one of the first ones of the year, figured I might as well start the topic now. Have a great year everybody!

Caught this in 23 fow jigging a spike tipped marmooska jig for perch.Came up and slammed it about 2 feet off the bottom just like the perch. Nice fight on the ultralight. First one i've seen come through the ice. Released.

[Tom Buckles]

Should have put it on a tip up

[Schollmeier]

Nice fish!

I've landed one through the ice, pretty much the same you did. I think it could be more common but it becomes a right-time-right-place deal somewhat. I have read some posts elsewhere on the internets of a guy getting White Suckers and Redhorses in Canukastan through the late winter ice with consistency - mostly on jig and plastics.