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Showing posts with label St Lawrence River carp fishing carping in Long Sault. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St Lawrence River carp fishing carping in Long Sault. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Fall carping in the St Lawrence River
We headed out to the St Lawrence river for some more carping, hoping those annoying gobies would be less aggressive than the carp due to the cooling water. We brought some live bait just in case. The morning started off pretty well, I landed a 34 inch / 23 lb carp. I managed another 20 lb carp later in the afternoon, and although the gobies ate of some of the corn, they are less aggressive as the water has cooled down considerably. Fall is definitely starting off with a bang.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Summer time carp in the St Lawrence River
We headed carping again, we took a new friend along who we met the week earlier on our Giles lake trip. We wanted to try our carp spot after hearing of the great success we usually have there. We got out there around 11:00 AM. My spod snapped off on the first cast, but fortunately for us (unfortunately for the environment), many people leave there empty water bottles and styrofoam worm containers on the shore, so I made a new one on the spot. I "spodded" the entire area we fish quite well, It took about 1- 1.5 hours for the carp to get in and start feeding well. I landed the first carp, I weighing in at 18 Lbs, most of them after that kept getting smaller, by the end of the day we were catching "tiny" 7-8 lb carps. For the first time this season, the fish snapped some of our rigs, quite strange as mine are 30 lb Fireline, Jimmy's were 14 Lb. Our new friend Howard didn't mange any carp on his specialize equipment he received from a British friend of his, my guess is that his 4 OZ sinker was way too heavy, and tied too close to his "hair rig".
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