Pool 2 Carp on bucktails?

Spent yesterday afternoon out on Pool 2.

I had caught 4 carp pitching bucktails off of the base of wingdams.

They just smoked the jigs? I have never caught them like this before. I can understand snagging them by accident but these fish had the bucktails well inside of there mouths. Maybe I am on to something here……new carp bait? LOL!

I snagged two more by accident. The carp were thick in a couple of areas in about 11 ft of water. I could feel their tails and backs with my jig.

Has anyone caught them like this before?

It was a great fight but was kind of hoping for a little more walleye action.

I wish I would have had the Aqua-Vu with me to check it out!

Dee Zee, are you using that can of “Corn Scent Spray” I sent you?

I have caught them this time of year casting Mepps spinners for Pike on the Vermillion. The carp, they get a little weird this time of year. Maybe it is like our cabin fever where they just act a little different!

Tuck

I have not caught them on a bucktail but we have got a few on a jig and minnow. They actually bit and were not snagged. So much for the theory that carp are vegetarians. A few years back right around this time of year we were fishing open water on the Vermillion river right by the Etter bridge. The carp were hitting flourescent orange floating raps. Maybe it is a cold water thing?

Hey, if you want to put your wrists to the test come down on pool 4 towards Wabasha in june and july and tie on a black or purple bucktail and work rocks and you can catch a boat full..and after the third fish you’ll be hoping they won’t hit it…Your wrists will be to sore… just my experience!!! And I’m not snagging them..they inhale it…needle nose needed……. year in year out it is a pattern…….got up to 30 lbs,it is the best way I know to practice landing big fish..It is the way I teach the kids to practice netting big fish so they will be ready for that big walleye..The kids have a ball as long as my wrist hold up LOL…..

Corn Scent Spray combined with a few liver chunks seem to be the right combo!!

Last year around this time I dropped the camera down to notice several species congregated here. Carp, cats, suckers, pike and a few nice walleyes.

Some big changes about to take place in the underwater world within next month. Maybe this is anticipation of this……..like you said, cabin fever setting in!

My partner LeRoy and I were prefishing for the USFA tournament on the River last year in the high water. I hooked and landed a 12 pound carp on a ringworn and a jig just off of Everetts. I had to go a ways down his throat to get the jig back! What are they thinkin’?

Tuck

I caught a 15 pounder (carp, or what I like to call a Fox River trout) on a 1/8 oz jig and a yellow twister tail at a spot I like to fish walleyes in the Spring. Gawd, I thought I had the mother of all walldads until I got a look at it! I was ripping the jig across some strong current too! Great fight, weird fish.