and we are talking about kids here, not animals

ive seen some 8 year old kids put the hurt on the carp witha bow.. it seems that the little kids rods, crappy line, small hooks and waxied seem to catch alot of carp in my parts.. but if you can get close enough go for a cane pole and plain hook with breand, keepa empty can of carmex and fil it with ciniman and dip the bread in it once and a while...treble hooks on dare deviles work good to.. huge lump of gulp crawlers on there and cast a ways past the school and drag it to the midde and yank really hard!

how do you get the buggers to bite if they are sucking on the rocks and sitting under the trees? i can most of the time i can get within 5 yards with out spooking but cant cast that far wtiha plain hook and i hate snags what would you use??

shot my first carp when i was 10 with a bear youth recurve. its not to hard to stick a fish.

try casting crappie plastics on jigs. present the lure within a foot of the fish

mmmmm carp!

jake, been reading trough this post and also come across these 20 to 30 lb monsters and have thrown everything at them but certainly not interested in eating any of it. what are these " cruising" carp doing? usually see them spring through early summer and then again in fall up shallow just swimming. not spawning not rutting up the bottom, just swimming along what look like carp paths or trails. cant imagine they are exercising.

I 've fished the "Big O" for 40 years. I know there has always been carp in there, but over recent years they seem to be very abundant. Whether in the morning on the surface over deep water, or during the day in the shallows or bull rushes, they sure have been making a racked.

It used to be illegal to throw rough fish back in the lake. I just searched the regs and didn't see that law?????

You can throw them back as long as they are alive and heathly if they are not you have to take them with you. PLESE DO LEAVE THEM ON THE SHORE THAT IS NOT LEGAL

that has NEVER been a law