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Pre-baiting an area that looks good is often the answer to catching one of these elusive carp.
He is also fishing well for tench and bream using similar tactics, with carp being caught on boilies.
Fishing a groundbait feeder with chopped worm he fished redworm on the hook tempting small carp and tench.
Offering maggot over pellet and groundbait at 13 metres he had small carp to 3lb.
I love the palace gardens though, taking walks to the pagodas, over bridges spanning lakes full of koi carp and under cherry blossom trees.
Clocks in every room are still ticking and three koi carp still swim in the garden pond, which overlooks peaceful Accrington countryside.
Some critics carp that the trip is just a tourist jaunt by a lame-duck president.
As most of you will know, carp generally move around a lot less in winter than they do in summer.
This is the size of a small swimming pool and is teeming with plump carp and goldfish.
To treat river carp as stillwater carp as far as boilies are concerned is probably a mistake.
The European carp and trout have driven many native species of fish from our streams.
A whole carp steamed or braised with fresh ginger and delicately seasoned with Chinese rice wine will be the third course.
Frank Atkinson led with a fine 27 lb 10 oz net of skimmers, rudd and small carp taken alternating worm, meat and pellet.
Despite the rivers being fair game, match activity on some of the commercial carp orientated venues continues unabated.
I had fished this for carp, and caught quite a few tench on boiled baits and carp rigs.
More recent introductions include double figure bream, carp to 20 lb and many roach, rudd, skimmers, tench and crucians.
Alan Mason landed an 18 lb common carp together with a good bag of roach and rudd.
Lodge Bay is the new coarse fishery with roach, silver and gold rudd and several species of carp ranging between 2-14 lb.
Selective breeding to improve the bloodlines of carp has led to the king carp that we see today.
The bottom was mostly composed of thick black silt, and the carp happily fed in this.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A few small fish may be seen basking near the surface of the water, but the bigger and warier carp do not often show themselves.
When of a good size, as in Holland, they are a remarkably fine fresh-water fish, though not so delicate as carp or tench.
Had he learned to carp at the rich, and to make honesty the excuse for all penury?
A close ally of the carp is the crucian carp, Cyprinus carassius, chiefly distinguished by the absence of barbels.
An English river-fish of the carp family, distinguished by the four appendant beards, whence its name is derived.
The rigorous metaphysician will please not begin to carp at our definition.
While he feasted ten little goldfish danced, and just behind the goldfish ten carp made sweet music on the koto and samisen.
They are lineal descendants of her carp that inhabit its waters to this day.
The pond beyond the garden contained a quantity of carp and loach.
Pete netted 36lb 2oz of small carp, tench and bream close in followed by Josh with 30lb 8oz of small carp and tench at 9 metres.
Sometimes the gar are rolling or giant spoonbills are cruising or the carp will be on the banks.
But what if they carp at that which in close-shut mind they long for?
In other quarters it was said that Mariette had made such a raid on the market that the price of carp had risen.
Accordingly the air-fleet came clustering round the flagship like carp in a pond at feeding time.
Carpers can win a powerful Ugly Stik carp rod and Powerplay fixed-spool reel.
The town has been stocked so full of carp that the game fish are all gone.
Men will dishonour their parents as they grow quickly old, and will carp at them, chiding them with bitter words, hard-hearted they, not knowing the fear of the gods.
I was making a sketch of beeches and to pass the time she fed the carp.
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