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boiliedude
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South Africa
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 Posted - 12/10/2005 : 12:01:14
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Can somebody PLEASE tell me how to catch a grass carp. 
There are monsters in the lake I fish, but theyre not interested in eating.
Ive heard that maize works well for them, but I fish with maize and nothing..
Is there a particular place on a lake that you fish to, or a particular something you fish with..etc..
Please help guys.
Thanks
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wisey
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Germany
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Posted - 12/10/2005 : 12:07:34
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Large beds of maiz and nutz 
Fish a pop up tigernut boilie straight off the lead on a 30 - 60 cm link 
Or crit ballaced tigers and a bit of cork on a 30 - 60 cm link,everything should sink really slowly.
Fish the edges of large weed beds or reeds or the bottom of drop offs that lead to the weed beds |
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boiliedude
Newbie
South Africa
70 Posts
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Posted - 12/10/2005 : 12:11:17
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A tigernuts boilie you say?
Hmmm..
Thats interesting...something Ive never been told before, so I will definitely give that a try.
What about plaine maize? maples? anything like that?
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wisey
Administrator
Germany
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Posted - 12/10/2005 : 12:18:02
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I'll probley get slated again for this
But yes a tigernut boilie ( dynamite Monster tigernut 20mm are good )or 2 big tigers and a piece of cork on top then cut the cork off a bit at a time till everything just sinks
Also short hairs tight to the bend in the hook
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Doughnut
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England
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Posted - 12/10/2005 : 12:38:58
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Sorry to post this again Wisey but I love this pic, quality
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boiliedude
Newbie
South Africa
70 Posts
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Posted - 12/10/2005 : 12:51:20
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Beautiful fish.
Ive seen it all over the net..a couple of times.
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wisey
Administrator
Germany
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Posted - 12/10/2005 : 13:20:36
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Yep that was caught at the bottom of a drop off between a lilly bed and a big weed bed,over a bed of maiz and tigernuts on a tigernut pop up boilie soaked in tigernut oil,fished straight off the lead on a 60 cm hooklink
Oh the memory's that lake's been stocked with about a million 3 - 4 lb carp in the last 4 years.I spent a night in that swim 6 weeks ago and caught 2 12lb mirrors  |
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wisey
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Germany
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Posted - 12/10/2005 : 13:21:58
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Originally posted by boiliedude
Beautiful fish.
Ive seen it all over the net..a couple of times.
Where ,when, COPYWRITE  |
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mattathetron
Top Rod
United Kingdom
568 Posts
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Posted - 12/10/2005 : 13:28:23
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Tell me more about these Tiger Nuts Dirk - any good are they?
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boiliedude
Newbie
South Africa
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Posted - 12/10/2005 : 13:33:09
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Hahahaha
Everywhere dude..I lost track! haha!
Ive got it as an email aswell.
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wisey
Administrator
Germany
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Posted - 12/10/2005 : 13:33:56
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Originally posted by mattatherton
Tell me more about these Tiger Nuts Dirk - any good are they?
Nah mat there naff I just tell everyone to use em so the rest of us can catch on our secret bait  |
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Crafty_Carper_Chris
Top Rod
England
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Posted - 12/10/2005 : 13:39:52
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| use a zig rig when you know what layer there at.. if you can see them then pop one about 1ft under the surface and catch some carp! |
[Crafty]___ Be different dont use sharp hooks.. use blunt ones! ]
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mattathetron
Top Rod
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/10/2005 : 14:09:58
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Correct application of Tiger Nuts.
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wemfish
Crafty Carper
England
276 Posts
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Posted - 17/10/2005 : 21:35:01
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| Llyn Trawsfynydd in North Wales has record breaking grass carp in it, I have a photo somewhere of one found dead that had starved to death due to swallowing plastic, it weighed 45lb! There are believed to be about 300 grass carp in the lake but at 1200 acres and no night fishing they are hard to locate. The record was held many years ago by a Traws' fish if memory serves me right at 27lb. they were an accidental release from the fish farm there and due to the warm water outlet from the now closed power station they grew very fast and still live in the lake. I tried to catch one but never even saw one, though my mum once saw one under the “bailey bridge” when going for a walk. . Massive apparently. . |
Take your time to get it right, you could spend year’s trying to catch that one fish, and you don't want to loose it to a blunt hook or bad knot do you?
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wisey
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Germany
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Posted - 18/10/2005 : 09:32:16
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Originally posted by mattatherton
Correct application of Tiger Nuts.
you put the wrong pic in there the first time mate
Thought I'd do ya a favour |
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kinktail
Starting Member
England
43 Posts
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Posted - 18/10/2005 : 17:51:08
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| The lake i fish contains about forty grass carp 16-20lb. Its nice to catch your first grass carp but they can be very hard to catch. The easiest way is floater fishing with dog biscuits at first light. A large bed of trout pellets with a single pineapple pop up works well. But you have to be right on your rods to hit the bites. |
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