Carp as game fish

[bdn06]

We used to bounce lures down the south fork, into the seams of the current and the back eddies and still water next to the current, in the winter. The browns seem to like to lay in the slower water in winter, where they don't have to swim much to oxygenate, but where the current washes a steady supply of food by. The carp (or suckers as we called them) seemed to have an affinity for the same water in the winter (found in the same place in the summer). For some reason, we would always tail-hook the suckers with the spoons, so they must be swatting at them or something. We'd tail-hook 1 or 2 suckers for every couple of browns. I have never had anything scream line off my reel like a tail-hooked sucker!
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