Carp and other Rough fish pics

[StillwaterAaron]

Last horse is a greater.

The Green lipped on is likely sucking on something with dye in it or a type of algae. weird though.

[carpmanjake]

thanks aaron! didnt even think greater, didnt think they lived in the ottertail. havent caught one since i was very young. good to finally get another and have a picture.

heading back out for another 2 day trip friday night after work. lets see if i can land my second buffalo this time..

[MNFishhunter]

Heys guys,

Is this a bigmouth buffalo???? Caught it on a fly.

[Stick500]

yep, that's a bigmouth buffalo

smallmouth and black buffalo are rare and don't have the sucker-like mouth

bet he put up a good fight for a little one!

[MNFishhunter]

They did!!! It was a huge surprise when the first one hit. We were catching bullhead and WHAM!!! Will be going back for more.

Thanks for the id too.

[carpmanjake]

fayths pb shorthead. touching 18.

[carpmanjake]

orwell weekend started pretty normal with a few redhorse...

at the end of saturday i caught my second bigmouth ever!

on sunday my third...

and fourth..

and fayths first

and ended the day with my fifth.

spent two years trying to catch my first one, and over a year for my second. and within 3 1/2 hours today we caught 4 buffalo. made for a good end of the trip

[Rick G]

Great pic's Jake! Those chunky little Buffalo's sure are a fun fight

[Abndoc]

Cole and jack with a river monster they tag-teamed!!

[reinhard1]

very nice!!!must have been a battle. good luck.

[Gordie]

Caught around a dozen of these today in search of creek chubs oh and got a few of those too

[carpmanjake]

beat the heat this weekend with some redhorse action

also wrestled a few snappers. lol

[reinhard1]

that's a good size snapper. looks like you had a good day. good luck.

[goblueM]

Trophy chub from Virginia

[OnAFly]

So you doing a skin mount or replica?

[carpmanjake]

played with some more shorties on the 4th.

[OnAFly]

After getting refusal after refusal from my normal carping lake, I headed out to find virgin fish.

I spent 20 minutes blind casting a catching a bullhead here and there until I hooked up with a decent carp, about 18 inches. Next cast, a drum, which I didn't even know were in there.

Another 20 minutes went by before I found what I was looking for. After 20 minutes, three blazing runs, and a mishap with the anchor rope (I thought for sure I would lose him there), he finally tired enough to handle him.

[tjbassmaster]

Nice Fish!

Onafly what type of flies are you using for the carp?

[Gordie]

Dang jake those would make some nice flathead bait wish I had a few might have to go in search of some suckers Friday

[OnAFly]

TJB - That one was tied on a fly called a backstabber. 1/0 size.

[erikwells]

Here is a sheephead I caught Friday night. Length 30 1/2. She put up a battle.

[Stick500]

Here is a sheephead I caught Friday night. Length 30 1/2. She put up a battle.

I'd love to see it!

while I'm here I saw something real unusual yesterday in a SW Wisconsin stream- the water is so low and warm in the Fever River (New Diggings) that there were about 30-40 big suckers all stacked up in a shallow section where a spring feeder was emptying in

I had to throw a crawler in just to see if they'd bite but the poor suckers were in complete survival mode and not interested in anything to eat

hope they make it OK- we need rain down here bad! (unlike you guys in MN)

[erikwells]

[reinhard1]

one heck of a sheephead!!!!!good luck.

[mainbutter]

wonderful freshwater redfish you've got!