The carp bite is in full swing and if you’re a cat guy ya gotta love fishing for big submarines during daylight hours, especially if you have not been able to get out at night
The spawn is in full swing making it very easy to find these tanks. Look for shallow water off the main channel with slight current near by such as sloughs and cuts while watching for commotion on top of the water. Spawning carp are aggressive, making it very easy to find them splashing around. You will have a blast tangling with this species I guarantee
The area we set up on today was a cut created by a couple islands on pool 7. We had spawning carp on both sides of the cut on shallow flats throwing water everywhere. By placing our baits (a gob of crawlers) in the middle of the cut which was 2.5fow, we were able to hook up on some dandy tankers taking a break from the orgy.
Casting into spawning carp is like trying to call a big Tom turkey away from horny hens, it’s just not going to happen but, placing are baits between the orgy picked up fish moving through the cut from flat to flat. The cut also produced a few nice channel cats and as always feisty sheephead, making sure that there was not a dull moment.
Sometimes fishing just to be fishing can be a blast. Two double digit forearm burning carp for the smoker was a bonus.
Good luck fishing people
Not your ordinary report Bret but fun to read none the less. Especially on a stormy, rainy day like today.
For sure, those carp can stretch your line for ya!
Boog
Now that is one big, gold and scaly creature in that second pic………looks just like the carp
Cool report Buddy
Nice post Bret, good to hear from ya!
Another great day to remember on the mighty Mississippi.
What a blast. 
Two things to be thankful for besides a great day with my Buddy Bret 
was a bilge pump and my new Cabella’s Gore Tex rain wear. 
What a deluge out there yesterday. The channel cats put up a nice tussel but those carp are some fierce fighters – they don’t give up easy. I know I lost 2 before switching to a stouter hook and Bret had a couple come loose. I thought after the second one that I would see smoke coming from his reel after hearing the screaming drag – – it hit that hard. 
and hope none of you are affected with any storm or flood damage.
Have a great week everyone
We have been getting some tankers down here on the Iowa River as well, when you least expect it they are taking a run with your spool on fire !!
We won’t be fishing the Iowa River for a month the way the water looks right now. 
Dandy carp fellas! Were you sight fishing them in the shallows or just waiting for cruisers outside the spawning area?
The water was way to murky to see them cruising so it was a waiting game.
We had some down pours at times which really had things stirred up.
Are theese the jumping carp?
These are the common carp
Thats good to hear; I won’t bring the garbage can lid.