CornaCarpio's Carp Culling Capers!

carp are a foul smelling but tough fish.

 

Pete, I have caught the odd carp on cold winter nights....but on bait. Do you think the conditions you like are more suited to insect activity and therefore suits your fly fishing better? I agree with your preference for a high barometric pressure.

Also, I wonder if CC's preference for warmer weather is related to his comfort levels?!!!!! On saying that, it may be difficult but if there is somewhere you fish that you can gather up some wood and start a fire, it is magic sitting there alongside the waterway....who needs a fish!!!!
Cheers
Team Bender

 

Mate the warmer days will lift the water temp, and also lift fish activity. We have noticed at this time of year on lakes at high elevations the carp are feeding on the side with the warmer water temps,
cheers Pete

 

Hi, Pete. That makes a lot of sense. Cheers, Lyall.

 

Do you check in on the forums when you stop fishing over winter? If so, you will be motivated to go when you see my posts!
Cheers
Iceman!

 

You don't have to prove anything CC. I would say quite a few members would have liked to have a camera with them when they landed that big one.

 

Don't worry about the DONUTS CC. Ya gota be in it to win it.

 

When do you resume hostilities CC...Septemberish I guess? I remember telling you that you should try in the winter as I have done ok before. Not this year! Although I never tried the creek. Only one attempt in carp infested water on a good day for it and I failed dismally.
Cheers
Team Bender
Not having much luck!

 

Hi CC. In Winter you will find water warms and cools much slower than air so it won’t be a lot. It takes a few days of sun to warm the water up, and that usually comes with colder nights which will chill it back down again.
Wind has a bigger warming effect as it mixes the water and that’s why you generally find carp on the surface in shallow, out-of-the-wind areas in winter,
I agree with you they are harder to find very few Carp are caught on either lake Eildon or Nillhacootie in Winter. As you say when it warms up they are every where. Keep up the good work my freind
Cheers Wally

 

a man needs a hobby theres nothing better than fishing I reckon, funny I have done well flyfishing for carp in winter probably depends on location, I suggest try for trout in winter if u have any trout water on your area that's not closed for the season such as a lake.

 

Your Lilydale lake has Trout and Redfin in it also stocked up for the June July School holidays with Rainbow Trout. As the closed season started a couple of weeks in June I would say it is OK to fish for Trout. But as always a new area or a different species check the rules and regulations out yourself.
Wally

 

Reminds me of a quotation from the ageless book, The Compleat Angler by Izaax Walton, written back in 1653.
As best I can remember it.

ON THE FOURTYH DAY,
PISCATOR THE MASTER SAID TO VENATOR HIS SCHOLAR;
"WE MAY SAY OF ANGLING
AS DOCTOR BOTELLIER SAID OF STRAWBERRIES:
DOUBTLESS GOD COULD HAVE MADE A BETTER BERRY
BUT DOUBTLESS GOD NEVER DID
(SO IF I BE JUDGE)
GOD NEVER DID MAKE A MORE CALM, QUIET OR INNOCENT RECREATION
THAN ANGLING"

 

To the best of my knowledge; there are no closed seasons for trout in any impoundments They only apply to potential breeding streams that flow into impoundments..

 

So piscatorial comes from piscator,i presume. old fisho the sage,

 

Blair;
This old sage (read as seasoned) would like to agree but frankly I'd be more inclined to believe the association went in the other direction, eg. Piscator got his name from 'piscatorial'. The word 'piscatorial' has been in use since the 17th century as best I can establish. The Complete Angler' was written in 1653 which is the 17th century. This is the strangely missing post of which I had written. It has mysteriously reappeared.
Read in the other post more details of my most irrelevant researching.

 

very informative O.F I didn't know there were books on fishing that old.