Your American carp are fantastic! Just lean and mean and *incredibly*
strong. Only had a few mirrors, 99% commons. Although Max Cottis did have a
37lb. mirror in Chicago a few years back. Tried the big method feeder up in
Canada 2 years ago with lots of success. Happy fishing,

Jim.

"Pepperoni" wrote in message
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"Jim Murray" wrote in message
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Sounds like great fishing, Pepperoni. What part of the US are you in?
Have
fished for carp in Illinois, Ohio & Wisconsin, happy times.

Jim.

It's the Huron River above Ford Lake in Ypsilanti, Mi., but it's easier
to
say Ann Arbor, and folks don't ask how you spell it (or what it means).
Great fishing, but so much water that none of it gets worked very hard.
The
Huron contains trophy Musky, walleye, smallmouth and channel cats, as well
as striper hybred and salmon below Belleville. (fairly new fish ladder at
Flat Rock) They are a little pressed for space because of the high
density
of carp, but they manage. The river side is not highly developed because
it
is prone to flooding and in many places you will find it overgrown and
slow
traveling. Parks, paved trails and access points line the trail in some
areas. Fishing the first highway bridge above Ford Lake is especially
convenient, having a wide pedestrian walk on either side. Night fishing
here produces huge stringers of channel cats averaging about 32 inches.
Though well known, this is often a little used site, with maybe another
fisherman there at night--several in sight in daylight. In high summer,
you
can sight-fish the carp. They hang in the shallow current in strings of
about a dozen. Just pitch a nice bait above them, and they will get the
scent and begin to search it out. The river runs clear in summer, and the
big walleye will hang in the shade under the bridges and shaded banks.
Leeches are great then, as are minnows and spinners. Problem is that
there
are so many smallmouth that it is hard to get a bait down to the walleyes.

Pepperoni