Record Quillback Caught!

[DTro]

"I live on Upper Red Lake and run a fish- and bear-hunting guide business and rent fish houses in the winter," recalled Tyler Brasel of Wakish, Minn., after he pulled a state record quillback carp from Upper Red Lake.

"I was on Upper Red, trolling a Rapala X-Rap, trying to catch northern pike, when this big quillback hit.

"I thought it was a northern at first.

"But it's the biggest quillback carp ever caught in the state, 7 pounds, 4.5 ounces. The weight has been verified by the DNR.''

[luckydog25]

Congrats Tyler!!

[pureinsanity]

Nice work!

[MN BassFisher]

Saw that on back of the Star Trib sports page today!

[carpmanjake]

i have the same shirt!

[BuckKiller]

Awsome...can't say I ever heard of a quillback carp??

[Schollmeier]

Awsome...can't say I ever heard of a quillback carp??

Technically, the proper name is Quillback Carpsucker. It is in the sucker family, just like buffalo. Not related to Carp in anyway.

[mrklean]

nice fish never even knew what a quillback was

[BuckKiller]

I see... Ill google it and find out more. Kinda curious now

[Aaron Carrell]

Wow, I never realized what the record weight was. I caught a Quillback 5 or 6 years ago fishing the Mississippi and it took me a good while just to figure out what species of fish it was! Wonder if this one would've made the cut. Seems like it would have been quite close! All I remember is that thing fought like nothing else I had caught at the time (2004 was my first year of fishing, so alot of things were new to me at the time).

[roughfish29]

not to sound like a debby downer, but the odds of a quillback being fair caught on a x-rap are slim to none. the typical rig for quillback is 4 pound line, size 10 (or smaller) hooks, and an eighth (or smaller) of a crawler. quillback simply do not feed on fish. their diet is made up of very small insects and crustaceans. the fish was likely snagged near the mouth.

also, a quillback is not a carp, nor is it related to a carp in any way.

i'm not trying to cause any arguments. i'm just pointing out a few things

[walleye365]

were you there?

[roughfish29]

no i was not there. i didn't say that the fish WAS snagged near the mouth. i just said that it was likely.

i wasn't there. so i can't make any final judgements. i can only have opinions. so sue me

[pureinsanity]

I think the one in the second picture is bigger IMO

[macgruber]

i've caught two quillbacks in my life, one below the stone arch bridge in minneapolis and one in minnehaha creek down by the river..... both were caught on minnow patterns..... one on a kalin grub with a 16th ounce weight worked slowly back toward me and it slammed it......

the other was stripping a streamer on the creek.... the fly was chased downstream by the fish......

i've even caught a carp on a mepps.....

fish don't always behave exactly how you'd expect.....

[live4chrome]

ive caught carp on crainks. teh one and only quilback I caught came from behing the coon rapids dam on a crawler rig on bottom.

[turn_in_poachers]

I have a friend who fishes carp tournaments in Wisconsin. He experiences with a lot of bait and everywhere he goes he says one bait catches them all: cutbait.

He's won some tournaments and finishes pretty high. I tend to believe him.

[AaronM]

were you there?

[Paul_Kramer]

I know a few guys who have caught quillies square inside the mouth more than once on Rapalas, Mepps, and some crappie jigs; they definately will hit them. Now wether or not it's for food or territorial or something, who knows. I actually had one that came up to the surface two or three times to smash my strike indicator when I was stripping line in with a fly rod.

[roughfish29]

i stand corrected

[carpmanjake]

ive caught carp on small spoons cranked quite fast while fishing for crappie and sunnies.

heck, ive even caught a white sucker on a floating rap while fishing walleye.

anything can happen when it comes to fish. it all depends on how aggressive the fish is at the time.

[carpmanjake]

I have a friend who fishes carp tournaments in Wisconsin. He experiences with a lot of bait and everywhere he goes he says one bait catches them all: cutbait.

He's won some tournaments and finishes pretty high. I tend to believe him.

cutbait is actually a very good bait for bigger carp if you can keep it away from the bullheads, craws, turtles, catfish, etc. alot of euro anglers use cutbait in fishing ponds over there when boilies dont produce, and they dont want to sort through the babies they would get using worms, maggots, luncheon meat, etc.

[Ray1]

Way to go Tyler. I believe you. On a x-rap there is a little bundle of hair on the tail. Maybe the fish was going for that for you non believers that always try to rain down on someones parade.

[Ctrl_Alt_Dlt]

Congrats!!! On a Rap too.

I have caught a quillback on a purple bucktail fly that I made. first time ever.

[PierBridge]

Quote:

I know a few guys who have caught quillies square inside the mouth more than once on Rapalas, Mepps, and some crappie jigs; they definately will hit them.

I've got 3 now, all pitching Cranks in Minnehaha creek. 2 semi fouled near the mouth and one she got in the lips!

The last one was pushing 4 pounds. I know I posted the pic but I can't seem to find it now!

Both nice fish and I agree that 2nd one looks huge!