Carp and other Rough fish pics

[pureinsanity]

yes, gar, bait stealer. grrrrrrrrrrr

[Quackaddict9]

Here is a 28" pout we caught Saturday night...we ate the backstraps and they were good! I love the colors on these beasts, the other ones I've seen caught were darker grayish color.

[HookEmHard84]

A Sturg I caught on the St. Croix a couple weeks ago, just under 50, heck of a good time to bring in!

[Here-Kitty-Kitty]

Awesome looking fish

[JBone]

Sick Pout!

[pureinsanity]

Awesome pout! Reminds me of those mustard flats!

[Archerysniper]

I was out spearing pike the other day and had this come throught the hole 3 feet long and didn't get a weight on it.

[blakeb]

wow thats a tank

[tjbassmaster]

Thats one big carp.. Also a very nice sturgeon and love the colors on that eelpot.

[DTro]

Been doin this the past few weeks:

[roughfish29]

game on

[Gordie]

roughfish nice fish and you got it right with game on and you put the first moves on. good job

[TonyKay]

Nice fish man...cool to see a moonye. Gotta get my azz out i

[DTro]

Looks like it might be a big Shad. Probably fouled hooked too I imagine. The are pretty tough to get to bite.

[Stick500]

roughfish can you give us the location?

I think I might know where you're at even though I've never been there

nice healthy-looking carp!

[TonyKay]

Looks like it might be a big Shad. Probably fouled hooked too I imagine. The are pretty tough to get to bite.

Yea your right, i just noticed the big black spot.

[reinhard1]

that black spot may be a piece of dirt. it looks more like a mooneye to me. i have cought them in the croix a few times. good luck.

[roughfish29]

yes it is a gizzard shad

@dtro: nope, hooked in the mouth with a small green scud

@stick500: email me [email protected]

[DTro]

Yeah I don't think moonies or goldies have a dorsal fin like that. Impressive you got one to bite, that is pretty rare. Nice!

They get pretty darn big in that area:

[MN BassFisher]

Were you flyfishing for these roughies or using spinning gear?

[roughfish29]

i was using spinning gear fot the redhorse and carp, flies for shad.

my buddy had the hot fly though. he was using a size 12ish green scud. we think that it worked because it resembled algae. we were seeing the shad eat clumps of algae off the surface.

i was using a size 18 copper john and i failed to get a shad

[carpmanjake]

here are a couple pics from before work the other day.... alot of fun fighting these babies on the UL!

[reinhard1]

carp are among the best fighting fish as far as i'm concerned. i take the grandkids in the summer to tangle with some by coon rapids park dam. good times. good luck.

[Stick500]

does anyone know if the proposed changes to the Coon Rapids dam may affect our fishing access? Sure wish we had better access to the water below the big dam- you can see the schools of monster carp (and probably buffalo too) in the summer.

carpman Jake, are you catching those lunkers already in a river? Are you using the same tactics as summer or do the coldwater carp require a different technique?

[reinhard1]

i dont know what the plans are in detail, however the proposed plan is designed to prevent the asian carp from going up stream. there is an "island" below the dam [more like a peninsula] that you can walk all it's shorelines with quiet waters available to catch some of these big carp and more [walleys, smallmouth, pike, cats ect.]. also the boat landing area is a good place for carp. good luck.