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2009 carp and other Rough fish pics

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it took me a while to find the carp today, but i got them.

3 pounds (can you say FAT!)

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i thought this one was gonna be bigger by the way it fought...

7 pounds

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3 pounds

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i took a lot of pictures of this fish

5 pounds

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this is one of my favorite pictures of a fish i have:

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i also got one more but it was very small

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so yesterday, i went out to my favorite carp flat, which is usually filled with 20+lbcarp (i have yet to catch one, and i have only hooked up to 3 carp there, but the shere number of huge carp makes it my favorite) and i found that it was now infested with bowfin!!! they were everywhere in teh bullrushes, at least one every 20 feet or so! insane! not a single one under 4lbs, and a few that would easily be 3ft long, and shatter the state record!

i hooked up with 2 absolute monsters, one was well over 30" with a HUGE girth. i had her right where i wanted her,

i lifted her up, the hook dropped out, and she flopped like crazy in less that a second she was gone... ouch....

same thing with the other, which was much longer, probably 34, but skinnier. she had tangled herself around some bullrushes, and had given up. i start to pick her up, and the hook falls out of her mouth, and she just swam off.

i landed 2 record breakers in one day (IMO if i touch the fish, i caught the fish)... but with no pics to prove it . i think im gonna be sick

heading back in a couple days so the bowfin and carp settle down

today, i will be fishing for shiners to use as bait, maybe some eyes at night. come wednesday, look out bowfin

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CarpmanJake.. ignore the GPS locator i have placed on your rods, that is for your safety so we can find you if you get lost. ;p

where are these bowfins you are talking about? any good carp spots around coon rapids/blaine area that you would suggest, shore fishing.

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CarpmanJake.. ignore the GPS locator i have placed on your rods, that is for your safety so we can find you if you get lost. ;p

where are these bowfins you are talking about? any good carp spots around coon rapids/blaine area that you would suggest, shore fishing.

come up to alex, bring your boat for best fishing. and ill put you on them. i checked the spot today when i chummed for carp. even more bowfin down there now!

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fish under the coon rapids dam

Under as in right by the dam? I went there and there was so many people tangling their lines it wasn't even funny, i had to cut my line 3 times because people were letting their lines come all the way up to the dam from 50 yards down.

I've tried the eastern side of the dam, where the over flow is and slower water but biggest one i caught there was about 5 to 7 pound. And lately its mostly the 2 to 3 pound cats no carp.

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For the last few years we have been making an annual salmon run out to Lake Michigan. We're only fishing out of 16 ft boats, so when the wind picks up we're generally shorebound. Every year we say we are going to target some carp during the downtime, and this time we actually did.

There were some serious bruisers swimming by, my buddy used the flyrod and I used a spinning rod. His bait of choice was the wooly bugger, mine was a looper bug under a clear bobber. It was sight fishing at it's best. Talk about some good fun!

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Of course not! Kept them for the picture then made a successful release of all the fish. They need to keep growing so I can catch the state record.

ok good. lol.

i hope that one female next to you made it ok... she is bleeding pretty good...

and dude... the next holder of the state record will be me wink

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