(05-01-2021, 02:12 PM)Cowboypirate Wrote: I watch for your reports to hear how active them carp are getting. When you say game on, I know my favorite panfish spots are about to get fun too.

(05-01-2021, 02:10 PM)TubeDude Wrote: I like your style.  Great pics and narrative.

While I don't pursue poopfish...to the exclusion of other species...I have been knowed to deliberately try to catch them on occasion.  I have had some memorable days when these scaly buggers have been cruising shallow and visible.  A small jig hopped in front of them usually gets slurped and the battle is on. 

Some folks compare their shallow water runs to bonefish.  I have caught bonefish.  And I think a carp tied to a bonefish...tail to tail...would pull that silvery fish inside out.

I have used carp many times to help train youngsters or older newbies in the arts of fighting larger fish.  And until some elitist poisons their good memories, most who have graduated from carp still harbor fond memories of those sessions.

Seems to really be some tanks in BRBR.  Have you worked Flaming Gorge for those bigguns?

(07-17-2021, 10:31 PM)fishskibum Wrote: i dont even bother checkin the gauge at corrine i just show up
if anything the water seemed up a bit from monday
i do use the windtracker  and hourly forcasts at weather.com and theyre pretty similar and accurate
bout 8mph and the seafoam pooper scooper maxes out upwind momentum potentials
at least with the current engine room configuration
used the 3 piece paddle it came with
i members why i blow monies on carbon fibered skis and paddles and sticks
thought about tossing from shore
threw in cause its hard to know your limits without testing them

in the game of inches a dozen high and long and in the milkweed
aint gonna git it done

and milk weed spew aint easy to git off the fly
and my antidotal experience is the next fish didnt care nor do i ever bother with hand scent transfer precautions much poopfishin although i have heard theyre sense of smell is keen

winds cranked up and it was evident we'd be traveling upstream and humping shuttles on foot

probably shouda ran the skeg
got blown sideways into a shallow underwater skag and dumped off the sup
thankfully in only a couple feet of water and no gear got lost or soaked
beached er where i could and stuck a few

ended up with a kitty gittin fly

made a few casts but no such luck
pulled into the whistler canal and hoffed back
lot of tails around the outlet
winds died a bit so i headed up
stuck a few more

and a fun skinny water ender

You do some fine work with the SUP.  Looks like it's plenty stable for your brand of fishing...except when you run aground in the breeze.  Don't expect to see a 300 hp motor on it anytime soon.

Quote:"A man who habitually fishes for carp has a strange look in his eyes"
"A man who fishes habitually for carp
Has a strange look in his eyes"
- Arthur Ransome- "Carp" - Rod and Line (1929)

-Arthur Ransom" d and Line (1929