Its was the first day of real cool weather down here in south Florida that I had an opportunity to fish.  Temps in the 60's Water temp dropping, should be perfect.  Well I get out on the water and try almost everything I have to throw and nothing for almost 2 hours.  Needless to say I am a little dissapointed.  So I down size to small spinners and a small chatter bait which has produced when thing get slow for me in the past, and sure enough it seem like I catch every dink in the lake.  Eventually I get a few in the 2 lb class So at least it wasn't a wash.  So I am on my way back to my dock which is down a small connecting canal to the main lake, and I make a long cast near shore with a rooster tail.  And as I am reeling it in I see a turtle right in line with my retrieve.  As soon as I passed the turtle line starts to sing of my reel, I mean like big tarpon on the line singing.   So I start following the beast the best I can with my trolling motor.  I loose about 3/4 of my line before I finally get close and it makes another long run.  So now I am almost 10 minutes in and don't have clue what I have on the line, not a turtle for sure, and most likely not a 30 lb bass.  So another few minute pass and I finnally chase it down to discover I had something big fowl hooked right in the dorsal fin.  Upon identification it was a Triploid Grass Carp and a fat one at that, 35 inches long and almost the same girth,  Get your bass weight calcualators out on this one fellas.   Sorry about the lengthy story but it was fun to say the least.  Wound up with 16 bass and one HELLAVA carp.

It's hard to see, but here it is on the line with the rooster tail in it's fin.

Never underestimate the power of a carp haha. I love catching carp, they really put up a great fight. Especially when catching them on smaller line like 8 and 10 lb test.

Man, the way you hooked it is basically like a person wearing a harness - the easiest way to pull weight. I'm not surprised you almost got spooled  ;D Great fish.

Seems like that lake Has a bunch of Giant Carp.  That is one FAT pig.

Nice fish man! I see friggin' HUGE carp in my lake ALL THE TIME! Is it illegal in FL if I hook one "on accident"?

NICE fish!

im suprised it stayed hooked the whole time!

I hooked one the exact same way about 15 yrs ago using a Rat-L-trap. I didn't know what I had for nearly 10 minutes. The boat wound up being almost 100 yds from where I hooked him. It weighed just over 25 lbs. Didn't get a pic of it though.

Holy Carp!

That is one fat carp. I have not caught one of those yet but I sure would like too.

I snagged a 19lb carp in the tail with 4lb line, so I know the drill