While fishing for white bass this morning on the Little River I saw several good size fish feeding and rolling on the surface. All of them had what looked like a yellowish underbelly...of course none of them would chase my lures. I thought they may be carp, but aren’t they bottom feeders?
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Mystery fish hitting the surface
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hopper
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Carp eat stuff off the top also.
ryanh487
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Probably carp. They do feed on the surface, and they also spawn at the surface during the spring. A big bunch of them jumping and rolling and being super active in the morning at the surface could possibly be spawning activity.
Carp would be my guess as well.
ventilator
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Best thing is to feed them some fiberglass! They love it.
Carp are starting to spawn. Saw hundreds of them rolling in the shallows last weekend. Gar will do the same.
matthew j
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Several years ago had a carp explode on a pop-r. Thought I had a trophy largemouth til I saw his scales. 15+ lb grass carp pulled my little Jon boat across the pond lol
I caught a 20-lb carp on a black musky jitterbug one night. I thought I had a world-record bass.
westcobbdog
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Buddy caught a big ole catfish on the Dead Sea on top water recently.
dirtnap
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I know it’s completely off subject but I caught a water turkey one time on a rapala, has to be my strangest catch
Hooked On Quack
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Caught a 20lb plus Carp on a cricket . .
Teh Wicked
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You can buy artificial bait and catch carp on the surface like that, but the best and easiest method is just some sweet corn on a hair rig with a method feeder lead. Cheap, very effective, hard to lose since you can basically tie straight 20lb braid to everything.
Mix a pack of jello, bread crumb and two cans of sweet whole corn with the juice drained off. Put about 2-3 piece on the hair rig, load up the method feeder and chuck it in the general area. THey will find it...be ready
Mix a pack of jello, bread crumb and two cans of sweet whole corn with the juice drained off. Put about 2-3 piece on the hair rig, load up the method feeder and chuck it in the general area. THey will find it...be ready
little rascal
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Was there today, you saw very large shad. Somewhere between 1-2 lbs. coming up and feeding on something on top. Looked like a hatch in trout waters was going on.
Yes there are carp there, but saw the large shad good today. Needs a little more water up there. Caught a few small male white bass.
Yes there are carp there, but saw the large shad good today. Needs a little more water up there. Caught a few small male white bass.
Dub
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They can make enough noise it sounds like someone is tossing bricks in the water.
Lukikus2
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Carp and catfish will at times.
Chap
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I've seen it happen. Over 20 years ago I was fishing with my now ex-father-in-law in my little jon boat in Evans PFA. He was snatching fly bream and bluegill in to the boat left and right with one of those 12ft fiberglass bream buster poles. He hooked up on a huge grass carp, with a cricket. It wrapped around my trolling motor and broke off.
