Fall Hogs!

Here are a few of the 18x 30+ pound commons I have had from Lake MI over the fall. The largest tipped the scales at just over 37lb with three others topping 35lb!

I do enjoy reading your posts and seeing huge slob carp every time. Well done sir!

Wow, very impressive

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I do enjoy reading your posts and seeing huge slob carp every time. Well done sir!

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Thanks Fancaster!

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Wow, very impressive

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Thanks!

I’d hate to say it, but those are some really impressive looking fish! Nice catches!

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I’d hate to say it, but those are some really impressive looking fish! Nice catches!

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All gently released and waiting for you!

Nice job. That is really impressive for the US.

Nice fish! What is that plastic thing/stuff in the bottom of each pic?

-J.

He’s way ahead of US shore fisherman. I believe it is just a plastic mat used to protect the fish. It also keeps the fish clean for photos. That’s my guess anyway, lets see what he says.

Very nice. Here is one I caught out of the river just south of St Paul yesterday. Photos dont really do it justice but Im sure it would of folded up my walleye net if hoisted in the boat wrong. The carp, buffalo and other rough fish are schooled up tight on the rivers up here now and all winter.

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Very nice. Here is one I caught out of the river just south of St Paul yesterday. Photos dont really do it justice but Im sure it would of folded up my walleye net if hoisted in the boat wrong. The carp, buffalo and other rough fish are schooled up tight on the rivers up here now and all winter.

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where???? I want to catch them. lol

Just start looking around the wingdams and the step break lines near them. Some of those schools are so thick the depth finder cant read through them. A camera would be helpful as not all of the schools are carp. Some are shad, buffalo, sheephead, channel cats. I wouldnt even drop a line to you see them lighting up the electronics.

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Nice fish! What is that plastic thing/stuff in the bottom of each pic?

-J.

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Its a mat used to protect the fish from injury

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He’s way ahead of US shore fisherman. I believe it is just a plastic mat used to protect the fish. It also keeps the fish clean for photos. That’s my guess anyway, lets see what he says.

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Spot on, thanks for the kind words mate.

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Very nice. Here is one I caught out of the river just south of St Paul yesterday. Photos dont really do it justice but Im sure it would of folded up my walleye net if hoisted in the boat wrong. The carp, buffalo and other rough fish are schooled up tight on the rivers up here now and all winter.

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Nice fish!

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I’d hate to say it, but those are some really impressive looking fish! Nice catches!

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All gently released and waiting for you!

Nice job. That is really impressive for the US.

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Thanks mate, the US and lake MI specifically has a such ridiculous untapped potential, and people from around the world are starting to take notice. My guess is that within the next ten years the US will be as popular as France or Spain for the traveling UK Carpers.

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I’d hate to say it, but those are some really impressive looking fish! Nice catches!

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Thanks, and every one fights like hell to! You would not believe some of the runs these fish take, i had fished heavily for salmon for a good 5 years before I started exclusively carp fishing and let me tell you, a 25-30# salmon have nothing on these guys when it comes to pullin drag lol!

Fall suckers are another under fished bite to. Not nearly as big as the carp but lighter gear and they put up a heck of a fight. Walleye gear with line in the 8 to 10 pound range works well. Guess the trade off to size is the number of fish that can be caught. Get on the right spot in the fall and 50 to 100 fish days would be very possible.

Very nice