A few buddies and I head up to the lake for some fishin today and the bluebird sky and windy conditions didn't yield too much of a bite for the most part. I finally changed to a jig after only catching a couple dinks and on my first cast after adding a trailer I landed a nice 4 lber. (pictured below). Fishing was rather slow and we were kinda gettin frustrated (especially when my friend tossed me a bag of ice and it landed on the edge of my leg, flipping my balancing polarized sunglasses into the water to sink into the murky underdark... >)

We headed back to the docking area and two feeders started going off. A bunch of grass carp started feeding and we decided to throw whatever we had at them. I nearly hooked one on a worm hook outfitted with a pretzel form out lunch. My friend landed an 11 lb. carp with a Mt. Ranier Cherry from out lunch. Later I decided to go all out and tie on a topwater. I cast it into the feeding frenzy and let it sit until an big carp rolled on it and gave me one heck of a fight! He went 20 lbs. on the digital scale and made for some nice pics.

id have to say mine put up a better fight..............

it was the cherry

I once caught a carp on a rattle trap (not foul hooked). I also once caught a carp on a finess worm. Never heard of anyone catching one on a topwater though.... that impressive.

you wish it fought better, Hudson... i smell jealousy : haha

I caught mine on a BASS LURE! They don't even eat stuff like that they are herbivores!

Ratl trap you say? wow thats impressive as well

dude just messin yours was a pig

haha yeah it is pretty ugly lookin too

Nice fish!!!

cool trip.  multi species too.  you guys should do an in-fisherman show. ;D  man if those carp were on spinning tackle, y'all really had your hands full.  ;D  those grass carp are some hard-pullin' dudes.

Thanks, Paul.  Yeah I landed that sucker on spinning gear with 8 lb. test line.  He put up a heck of a fight.  Actually Robert had already planned on filming a few of our fishing trips  ;D  we never got around to it last time though and he is out of town now.... will send you the first episode though!