Those Carp Guys Are Out There

[North Ga Hillbilly]

So I was reading magazines while the better half was perusing teaching books at Barns and Noble and stumbled upon a magazine focused mainly on carp fishing, although some other equally less glorious fish were highlighted as well. And Im not too sure if I like their direction with fishing or not.

I dig the Jersey Shore style gal they have on the cover, but I dont know if Im into the 40lb carp shes holdin.

You decide

NGaHB

[NorcalBassin]

Well, that's an interesting combination. Suppose that one may get some guys into trouble when it's lying around with "Bivvy Babes" inside. I have to say I got a chuckle out of that cover.

I'm always disappointed when I catch a carp, but some fly fisherman swear they're the best "game" fish out there.

[webertime]

All British magazines (music, cycling, fishing, etc) love to randomly throw the eye-candy in there.

[CWB]

Well, that's an interesting combination. Suppose that one may get some guys into trouble when it's lying around with "Bivvy Babes" inside. I have to say I got a chuckle out of that cover.

I'm always disappointed when I catch a carp, but some fly fisherman swear they're the best "game" fish out there.

I'm always quite pleased when I hook a carp and actually land it. They fight twice as hard as a bass of the same size and they get huge. I've caught a couple 30+ and they can tow my boat around. Caught one years back while wading in waist deep water and the thing almost drowned me. I agree they aren't much to look at, but man do they pull!

[SirSnookalot]

Carp are great sport. There are quite few fish species I catch that fly under the radar but represent themselves exceptionally well in the fighting department, not to mention are excellent table fare.

A case in point, last year one of my neighbors( a snowbird) is a charter captain from Cape May New Jersey, charters striped bass and was telling me how great they were. I said that's only because you never caught a nice jack, so I took him jack fishing for 20 pounders, all he wants to do now is fish for Jack Crevelles and has yet to bring up striped bass fishing.