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Record Carp!!! - Bronco66 - 07-15-2012
This is my new Record Carp!! Should have weighed it the same day and measured it, cause it seemed to have shrunk sitting in my boat over night
36 length 24 girth and about 25 pounds the next day. After holding my bow in draw for as long as i was, I could of swore it was closer to 40 lbs when I shot it.
Got it from the Snake near Grandview!
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Re: [Bronco66] Record Carp!!! - fish-o-holic - 07-15-2012
Nice one buddy!
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Re: [Bronco66] Record Carp!!! - FNA - 07-15-2012
Nice, are you shooting in the tourney at Strike next weekend?
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Re: [FNA] Record Carp!!! - Bronco66 - 07-15-2012
Haha no, I'm a terrible shot. That was only my second time ever going out for em. I broke one arrow and slapped my forearm a couple times. Also my shoulders a bit sore. It's the same bow I hunt with and I think it's at 65 lbs. I need a women's bow and set it to like 30! Haha
Are you allowed to chum for carp if your shooting them? Or is there any other method of finding them beside drifting? We just rode up the snake and drifted the bank.
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Re: [Bronco66] Record Carp!!! - windriver - 07-15-2012
Nice carp.
Windriver
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Re: [Bronco66] Record Carp!!! - FNA - 07-15-2012
You are better off to keep moving. You'll shoot more drifting than waiting.
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Re: [Bronco66] Record Carp!!! - wilcam47 - 07-15-2012
Nice carp...are you guys talking about strike dam? I used to bow fish for carp there...I know of a good place not far from the dam to shoot them off the bank[
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Re: [wilcam47] Record Carp!!! - Metalheadgene - 07-15-2012
Nice swamp donkey!
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Re: [Bronco66] Record Carp!!! - flygoddess - 07-16-2012
JEALOUS!!!!!
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Re: [flygoddess] Record Carp!!! - daniel_30 - 07-16-2012
Great looking fish[fishin]
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Re: [Bronco66] Record Carp!!! - cpierce - 07-16-2012
That's a bruiser! Great fish.
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Re: [Bronco66] Record Carp!!! - Jazzperch1 - 07-16-2012
nice one man!!!!
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Re: [Bronco66] Record Carp!!! - forrest2906 - 07-16-2012
Okay, so what do you do with a carp of this size after shooting it? Coyote bait, cut bait for sturgeon fishing, plant it in the garden, eat it or smoke it? I have never gone after this species due to not knowing if they were good to eat or smoke? What do the rest of you do with carp if, or when you catch them?
Thanks, Chuck
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Re: [Bronco66] Record Carp!!! - Mac7 - 07-17-2012
Thats a big one, congrats.
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Re: [forrest2906] Record Carp!!! - wilcam47 - 07-17-2012
[quote forrest2906]Okay, so what do you do with a carp of this size after shooting it? Coyote bait, cut bait for sturgeon fishing, plant it in the garden, eat it or smoke it? I have never gone after this species due to not knowing if they were good to eat or smoke? What do the rest of you do with carp if, or when you catch them?
Thanks, Chuck[/quote]
Ive heard you can eat them...but takes some work to prepare them...you could use them for fertilizer...I believe fish and game USED to say dont throw them back in the water...just throw them on the bank somewhere...
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Re: [forrest2906] Record Carp!!! - cpierce - 07-17-2012
If you aren't going to take them home for fertilizer or eating, then please dispose of it properly, and don't leave it on the bank. Cut the gills and then the gut. Make sure that you perforate the air sac in the belly area. The carp will then sink and not float to the shore. It will feed the lake ecosystem and won't be offensive to land owners or others that use the lake. Not much smells worse than a bunch of rotting carp!
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