Daughter's *FIRST* fish!

[Winnie]

Carp-O-Matic doesn't have the same ring though, Ken Bass Beer *shudders* almost as rough on the palate as Carp!

[Wildthang]

Has anybody ever made dough balls mixed with strawbwrry soda pop? A carp annot resist them for some reason.

[Thaddius Bickerton]

Best thing to do is throw it into compost / up on the bank.

Carp You have to cut out the "mud line / vein" (Don't ask, if you are shown it is easy to see)

Then you score them down to the bones and cook em up and the bones kind of dissolve (become edible), but you need someone that has cooked em to teach ya how to make em edible.

Keep working on the trout. go to smaller hook size, and lighter line (4 pound maybe) and set your drag to real easy.

Might try looking at "tenkaru" fishing or just grab a cane pole or one of those telescoping crappie poles and some line and float them into places where the trout hang.

Think like trout, they want the sun out of their eye, and a place where the water moves food to them. A simple spinner like a rooster tail (the smallest one you can find 1/4 or 1/8 oz) will also work well on light tackle.

Stocked fish are often pretty "small"

See if you can find a place with bream / pearch / crappie to fish, those are the easy ones to catch and good eating. I esp. like crappie.

If you check on the kindle sight they had several fishing books you could grab for free the other day (set sort "low to high" and it will pull the lower cost ones to the front of the list. If you don't have a kindle you can grab the kindle for PC download for free to read the free kindle ebooks you get.

by taking a small hook and putting a worm / crickett / minnow / other small live bate on it and letting the stream carry it down toward the fish in a free float you will get into trout often enough.

Remember small hooks mean more fish, move up in size as experience demands that you need larger hooks / line strength.

Thanks for sharing, I love seeing kids get hooked on out of doors activities.

As for carp, if they are in the shallows on bed, using a bow and fishing arrow for em is lots of fun.

Thad.

[ElevenBravo]

Thanks Thad, good information and Ill put it to use next fishing!

EB