tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post5627931345828755776..comments2024-03-17T15:44:26.723+00:00Comments on Idler's Quest: A Quest for Canal Carp - 10,000th CastJeff Hatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16164198326538064799noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-989569771650128222012-07-13T14:06:02.694+01:002012-07-13T14:06:02.694+01:00That's a cracking fish right there. Forget cat...That's a cracking fish right there. Forget catching bloated water pigs from commercials, this is proper carp fishing! Thanks for the blog, i've been reading it for a few months now and it's always good to read about real angling.<br /><br />I caught a 'wild' carp from an old brickworks water recently and it was the fight of my fishing life. Lost two and the one that i finally Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-33412524470514175912012-07-12T17:49:09.860+01:002012-07-12T17:49:09.860+01:00Anincorrigable, Fred, thanks. I'l try hard to ...Anincorrigable, Fred, thanks. I'l try hard to keep up the standard, with a twenty! MIght be a while in coming, but it will come...Jeff Hatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16164198326538064799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-32669405483269099882012-07-12T17:07:47.407+01:002012-07-12T17:07:47.407+01:00Great read Jeff as usual, cracking looking fish to...Great read Jeff as usual, cracking looking fish too.FredBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14760074801678213403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-73888717924894884962012-07-10T17:02:00.533+01:002012-07-10T17:02:00.533+01:00Well done Jeff, its always a great feeling when it...Well done Jeff, its always a great feeling when it eventually falls into place.<br /><br />As usual another great read... looking forward to part 2Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-57064282423071493442012-07-09T01:49:25.748+01:002012-07-09T01:49:25.748+01:00Jeff, we do have carp. The fly-fishermen refer to ...Jeff, we do have carp. The fly-fishermen refer to them as 'Rocky Mountain Bonefish'.<br />Sadly, many Americans think of carp as trash fish and either don't pursue them or dislike it when one takes the bait.<br />There are some nice ones in a deep pool in the tiny St. Vrain river just down from the road from me but I've been feeding them corn for years (the wife calls them my 'Steve in Coloradonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-54917493936669417572012-07-07T04:26:30.744+01:002012-07-07T04:26:30.744+01:00Steve, too right it is! sleek and pretty. I've...Steve, too right it is! sleek and pretty. I've been looking into feral carp, and wild carp, as you would, and it seems you have a lot of feral common carp in the States, far more than we have here.<br /><br />It seems they were present early 1800's but apparently almost all of the entire American wild stock derives from just 5 fingerlings imported from Germany in the mid 1800's by a Jeff Hatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16164198326538064799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-15448277847407302302012-07-07T03:55:41.577+01:002012-07-07T03:55:41.577+01:00Well done, Jeff! And so very much nicer a fish tha...Well done, Jeff! And so very much nicer a fish than those grotesque, deformed pigs farmed out on the Brit commercial ponds.Steve in Coloradonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-59535466304470655362012-07-07T03:20:59.962+01:002012-07-07T03:20:59.962+01:00Cheer Brian, nothing like a good fight with a stro...Cheer Brian, nothing like a good fight with a strong fish to get the fingers bashing the qwerty keys, is there?<br /><br />Gypsy Lee, look into your crystal ball and tell me what you see!Jeff Hatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16164198326538064799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-74085993597610559052012-07-06T13:42:18.164+01:002012-07-06T13:42:18.164+01:00Ahh I guess my prediction was just a few hours sho...Ahh I guess my prediction was just a few hours short of being telepathic !! <br /><br />Well done mate, like you say it's not the size it's the capture that counts. They're not easy fish either, hungry commercial mudpigs they ain't!!<br /><br />Now for the big one!Lee Fletcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00685597805202369375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-5247634483899153422012-07-06T12:46:36.498+01:002012-07-06T12:46:36.498+01:00Cracking fish and great blog post. Edge of your se...Cracking fish and great blog post. Edge of your seat fishing story!Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10282379823630036037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-11648469119753730632012-07-06T11:48:54.241+01:002012-07-06T11:48:54.241+01:00Leo, cheers. Still working out how I might use tho...Leo, cheers. Still working out how I might use those drop shot lures you kindly donated, but I have a perchy plan for when a certain deep river eventually calms down!<br /><br />Danny, animals is the word! And trickling bait in might be the way to get that lump I reckon. If I cant go to her, then she'll have to come to me, because there's been no sign of her since last month. Or was it Jeff Hatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16164198326538064799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-5690893038988634342012-07-06T10:21:37.068+01:002012-07-06T10:21:37.068+01:00Well done Jeff, I too are in search of the illusiv...Well done Jeff, I too are in search of the illusive canal carp...not there yet! greta carp.<br /><br />The Tuesday SwimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-21183438014482143732012-07-05T23:05:28.915+01:002012-07-05T23:05:28.915+01:00Truly wonderful Jeff. Effort always equals reward....Truly wonderful Jeff. Effort always equals reward. Really pleased for you, much deserved...and your writing is an inspiration sir.Gurnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10140937461283076494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-40140605816021417372012-07-05T21:22:22.281+01:002012-07-05T21:22:22.281+01:00A top three fish in a top three blog entry - I rea...A top three fish in a top three blog entry - I really enjoyed reading that. Congratulations.<br /><br />Canal carp take me back to when I actually did any real fishing - the mid-80s (I know, I know) - because they didn't seem that much of a rarity then. In fact they were quite normal and there were tales aplenty of twenties and more in and around a well-known factory as it backs onto a KBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-33962484706343174602012-07-05T20:29:57.987+01:002012-07-05T20:29:57.987+01:00Well done Jeff, I did a fair bit of canal carping ...Well done Jeff, I did a fair bit of canal carping when I lived up in Manchester, some real lumps in canals matey and yes they do fight like animals! Keep trickling the bait in and they will soon come calling regularly.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13687514549659460083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-23956057581038661712012-07-05T20:14:21.443+01:002012-07-05T20:14:21.443+01:00Very well done to you Jeff! A brilliant capture!Very well done to you Jeff! A brilliant capture!Leo Heathcotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06897861995687694777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-48931031112076606372012-07-05T20:05:46.405+01:002012-07-05T20:05:46.405+01:00Russel, It was 11.04, there or thereabouts, For on...Russel, It was 11.04, there or thereabouts, For once, the weight really wasn't so important. I see I forgot to mention it, but hadn't realised.<br /><br />I think these feral carp only go up to just over twenty though, so I was well pleased with half that.Jeff Hatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16164198326538064799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-48798121438350401902012-07-05T19:55:00.910+01:002012-07-05T19:55:00.910+01:00Well done jeff! I'm glad you caught it on corn...Well done jeff! I'm glad you caught it on corn too and not some ridiculously named and branded boilie. I hope you don't mind me asking how big it was? Gorgeous carp.Russell Hiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17564301240598105737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-21475516098616090072012-07-05T16:45:49.273+01:002012-07-05T16:45:49.273+01:00I have!
Dave, I've been sleeping two hours h...I have! <br /><br />Dave, I've been sleeping two hours here, four hours there, just to get these hours on the bank in. The night is everything, I reckon. That's when all these tench, bream, and now carp, finally venture out of the safety zone. To be there, I have to, how can we say, juggle my familial responsibilities... <br /><br />But it's worth it. And do you know what, the missus Jeff Hatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16164198326538064799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-75845866471999997252012-07-05T16:09:26.281+01:002012-07-05T16:09:26.281+01:00Wow, what a result. Good on you for all your perse...Wow, what a result. Good on you for all your perseverance. I was worrying that you were turning into one of the undead!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10573228821192974403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-6018939372636595452012-07-05T16:04:36.791+01:002012-07-05T16:04:36.791+01:00Danny, I've had your hand on my shoulder the w...Danny, I've had your hand on my shoulder the whole time I've been fishing for these canal carp. Like you said, don't give an inch or they'll take a mile. On that first run I slammed my hand over the spool, but the fish still took three or four yards of mono by stretch alone!<br /><br />Everything you said it would be. Brutal. Like having two on at once!<br /><br />Baz, never seen Jeff Hatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16164198326538064799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-63197538229385636962012-07-05T15:23:38.582+01:002012-07-05T15:23:38.582+01:00Nice one mate! I told you they were brutal when yo...Nice one mate! I told you they were brutal when you hook them in the cut and you weren't disappointed.<br /><br />That ones parents may have come from stock fish. But that one was born free every day.Daniel Everitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03810934657655675462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-71223606849011694412012-07-05T15:20:05.515+01:002012-07-05T15:20:05.515+01:00And to the victor the spoils old chap. The tail on...And to the victor the spoils old chap. The tail on it is what that carp is all about .<br /><br />I wonder if it had ever seen a hook before . That read has just inspired me to spend an evening trotting for Barbel on my beloved Avon .<br /><br />Well in Jeff.<br /><br /><br />BazalBazal peckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12129911811887445244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-72664076164867146862012-07-05T13:47:48.580+01:002012-07-05T13:47:48.580+01:00Congratulations Jeff,
The puzzle is starting to u...Congratulations Jeff,<br /><br />The puzzle is starting to unravel bit by bit, although that tangle might take a while. That is a very nice looking angry Common, well done.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14811261242243976198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197778115917889421.post-14247267662415619862012-07-05T13:19:24.835+01:002012-07-05T13:19:24.835+01:00Good on Ya boy, The first of many.Good on Ya boy, The first of many.martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05364518570374322950noreply@blogger.com