by ondarvr » Tue May 24, 2011 6:55 pm
I found the ones in LW a little harder to catch than in other lakes. I used bread, corn and a few other things under a small float. Even when the float would go under and move several feet away it was hard to get a good hook set. I was never able to catch one of the big carp, only the medium and small ones.
A few years ago I stayed on a house boat on Lake Powell for a week and fished for them at night with lights, the water is very clear there and you could easily see them. They were very wary and with even the slightest thing out of place and they would avoid the bait and stay about 10 feet away from it. As long as the bait was in place when they swam by and it didn’t move they would bite.
I did catch one on the surface with a very tiny Crippled Herring type lead jig, they were feeding on the surface and I just set the jig on top of the water and one sucked it in.
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ondarvr on Tue May 24, 2011 9:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.