Hey. Ive seen these grass carp along the edge of a pond near my house.  I hear they're fun to catch.  Ive tried regular carp bait with no luck.  Any suggestions on what kind of bait to use?

I've caught alot with bread balls when they are schooled up feeding on the bottom.

i don't know where you are located, but here in florida the BEST carpbait is a ficus berry. they are very difficult to cast, but carp can't resist them.

You can't go wrong with bread.  Throw a bunch out first to chum and just include in that bunch of bread your piece with a hook in it.

Sweet corn works just as well.

Sweet corn works just as well.

Just don't chum it beacuse it doesn't digest and smaller fish can't pass it.  A fish with a stomach full of corn will starve to death.

my personal favorite is taking my hoyt compound bow out with a fish outrig on it and shoot them.  Its always a fight, but that probably won't go over well since it sounds like a community pond

a bow and arrow ;D ;D ;D bread has always worked for me!!!!

The bow and arrow thing seems pretty cool.  I read an article about it, great way to get rid of a nuisance fish.  

it is a blast so much fun!!!!! I do it every summer way to much fun!!!!

I think you gotta use different baits other than bread and corn to catch grass carp.

I use bread and corn all the time but the carp i catch are either common carp or koi carp.

I don't know how well this stuff works on Carp because i have yet to go carp fishing. But I bought Berkley Powerbait carp doughballs in a Natural scent, (which is green) I know the blue gill love it because i tried a small piece of it on a hook and chummed with it a ltitle, and the gills come up and blast it. So fish like it...is it a productive carp bait...I dunno

I have always heard that carp will feed on mulberrys, and if you can keep a berry on your hook you can catch good ones.

Grass carp are an entirely different animal and require different baits than the common carp.

What types of vegetation are around the pond?  Trees, fruit-bearing plants, etc?

By far the best bait that I have found for grass carp that you can see is a Jitterbug. Grass carp love cicadas which is what a jitterbug looks like.

I catch a few from time to time I usually use bread. There is an old woman a few houses down from me that feeds the ducks bread the carp come in to clean up leftover crumbs. I use light line and no sinker because if they feel resistance they will spit the bait out

here is an average size grassie but I see some much bigger

snag em' with rattle traps.   ;D

I use two baits. My go to bait is a cherry tomato when I see them near the surface. Gotta love the adrenaline when they suck in that tomato and I set the hook. The other bait is a homemade strawberry dough bait that works equally well

snag em' with rattle traps. ;D

You do realize that grass carp are stocked for the purpose of vegetation control and therefore are a protected fish?

snag em' with rattle traps. ;D

You do realize that grass carp are stocked for the purpose of vegetation control and therefore are a protected fish?

Good point.

At a local golf course the workers dump grass clippings in the ponds and the carp devour it. For a killer bait, mix some wet grass clippings into a dough ball.

Since it is a grass carp and it eats vegetation,  wouldn't broccoli work?  it is tough and will stay on the hook and has some weight to it.

It is illegal to catch grass carp in some states

It is illegal to keep/spear/kill grass carp in many states

Though if you are allowed to catch them try a "wad" of tree leaves

Make sure it is legal to catch grass carp in your state.  Florida regulations are: "Triploid grass carp are used for aquatic vegetation control and may not be stocked or harvested without a permit."

A few of the ponds I go to here in Indiana are over stocked with them.  It is not uncommon at one pond I go to to see 75-100 carp that are 20lbs+ hitting the top of the water at sundown.  The problem is that there are so many that the bass seem to get smaller and smaller every year.  

I have caught a few and thrown them back but I often find one from time to time tossed on the bank left to die.  I don't get it.