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I know most of us like to keep specifics to ourselves about good spots, but wondering if anybody knows decent spots in the Cities for sight fishing carp. I know I can go out to the Miss R. and catch a boatload, but I enjoy sight fishing a lot more

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Good luck getting anyone in the metro to cough up their honey holes. nice try anyway it was worth a shot ;\)

I'd suggest the community spots that everyone knows about like the ford dam, minnehaha, backwaters around pike island, black dog, etc. Otherwise do a search in the pool 2 and shore fishing forums and you'll probably find a few nuggets of truth worth trying. Don't be discouraged.

Half of the fun of carp hunting is finding that secret spot on your own.

Good luck!

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i used to live in wayzata as a kid and fell in love with carp off the depot docks in wayzata bay on lake minnetonka, started sight fishing them with hunks of hot dog buns and when i would see a few swimming towards the top i would lob it at them and 9 times out of ten they would gobble it up before the hook fell out, i then started fishing doughballs and found my success to be much better. lots and huge fish off the wayzata depot docks all year and the lagoons early season, the lagons are pretty tough to sight fish them in though

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it was a while ago, i moved there in 6th grade and moved away in 10th grade and i graduated in 2005 so i guess that would mean i was there from about 1999 - 2003 my dad still lives in wayzata though and even after i moved away i would still go down on the weekends and fish the depot docks, lots of good memories down there.

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Ahhh I predate you there by quite a bit... I graduated from Wayzata in 1993, moved out of town shortly thereafter.

can be quite a bit of fun down there as I recall....

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Look for the first open shallow bays in lakes this time of year. The big carp congregate in these warmer areas but only for a short time after ice out. Don't know of any spots like this around the cities, but there are many around St. Cloud

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here is an aireal view of the depot docks and the lagoons in wayzata, two of my favorite fishin holes as a kid, they are very well known so i don't see any problem in posting a map, the spots highlighted in red are good spots to fish, i love using my doughball recipe listed in this forum under How many of you make your own bait? also just regular old corn works great. the lagoons are amazing after ice out. carp by the hundreds in there, my two biggest from there also, a 20lber and a 17lber. might have to venture down there this year, all this talk has got me excited \:Dgrin.gif

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little late but thanks bearbait. I pulled in 7 carp all around 30". Caught more fish than the 15 crappie fisherman put together lol. Ill post some pics when i unload the camera.

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Staring Lake, Lake Riley, and Lake Susan all have plenty of carp for sight fishing. Probably the best all around though for sight fishing would be Lake Minnetonka. A couple of buddies told me last week that carp are stacked up in many of the shallow bays all over 'Tonka. I've personally had great early season action on Harrison Bay from the the shore.

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