Carp Help?

[Bankbeater]

I'd use the same set up for carp that I'd use for big cat, but only with a different bait. 

[derekxec]

I also have a question. How would you catch a grass carp 6 feet long that rips 80 feet of 50lb braid off of a locked down reel and then gets off because it runs through a patch of coontails to get your treble hook out of it's back?

 

noodle it!

[SirSnookalot]

Grass carp are not carp, they are White Amur and are the largest member of the minnow family I believe.  In Florida people use ficus berries to catch them, I've caught only 2 on artificial lures in 10 years and thousands of casts.

[Bluebasser86]

Grass carp are not carp, they are White Amur and are the largest member of the minnow family I believe.  In Florida people use ficus berries to catch them, I've caught only 2 on artificial lures in 10 years and thousands of casts.

Common Carp are also in the minnow family. Grass carp behave very differently though. I caught one sightcasting to one that was feeding on shoreline vegetation with an olive woolly bugger, only one I've ever caught on an artificial. 

[flyfisher]

I have had the most success with lighter tipper fly gear and Adams flies myself. They will feed on top and when they are they are the easiest to catch.

I used to have a last catching them on my 4wt with 5lb tippet. I have had fish take me into my backing multiple times.

[averagebass123]

I have had the most success with lighter tipper fly gear and Adams flies myself. They will feed on top and when they are they are the easiest to catch.

I used to have a last catching them on my 4wt with 5lb tippet. I have had fish take me into my backing multiple times.

The carp in this pond are easily 40 pounds... definetly would get into backing haha.. cant wait