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Mmmm, nah… don’t really care about the money. We break even or win a little almost every time we go to this lake and it’s relatively cheap AND CLOSE! It’s personal preference but I’d rather catch 20-30 dink to average size carp with the possibility of catching a good fish (two nights ago 7 fish were caught here all 20+ lbs and you didn’t win money if you didn’t have a fish on the board over 17.2) than sit all night and catch maybe one or two huge carp. To me, that’s booor-ing. I’ll be honest and completely transparent, we are still learning the tricks and secrets and most of the time we can’t keep up with the guys who’ve been doing it regularly for 10-15+ years because we’re relative newbs with our on/off experience of 3ish years… If we went somewhere like you mentioned we’d be toast and that’s NOT fun. The folks at Roy’s have always been super great to us and having fun while learning a thing or two is what it’s about… for us anyways. Not everyone has the big money mentality. I mean it’s A-okay if you do but it’s also perfectly acceptable to not. Sooo, yeah… I’ll stick with my “mud hole.” 😂
Do you ever fish "the hole" over by the S end of the bridge? Some good Trout during the summer! BTW...if U need some good company or gas $ for that Merc...I'm rite down the road!
Unfortunately that hole is not going to be there much longer....We have hammered the fish there in the past, especially on a slack tide. Over the last few weeks the dredge working the area has been dumping sand in it and is quickly filling up
Really hate to be that guy in the comments, but that whole section of the Mitchell is a delayed harvest section.. may want to refresh on lure restrictions before the game warden comes along one day. Not worth the ticket. And wet your hands before handling trout, you know that! But nice browns anyway.
Yes, it is delayed harvest and that means single hook, unscented artificial baits (which is what we were using), so I’m not sure what you’re referring to on “lure restrictions.” We get checked by game wardens on this stretch of river as well as the Stone Mountain State Park stream 9 times out of the 10 times we go and always get the all clear on our licenses and bait. As far as being wet, we were as wet as the fish were that evening 😂
We started seeing it around 10pm and it dimmed out for a bit and then about 2am it flared up pretty good again and then came and went throughout the night.
I know Surf City pier has a blanket license so as long as you’re fishing on the pier, you don’t need any extra licensing. I think Sea View pier is the same but I would call and ask just to be sure.
This past weekend a bunch of dogfish, a few black drum, seen a couple flounder come up (but can’t keep those yet), a few pompano are starting to show up, and always mullet (aka northern kingfish), and bluefish are really starting to fire up too. May/June is a great time as long as the weather is decent. I highly recommend watching the pier cams on surfchex.
I would say the Bonner Bridge Pier would be about the best place.... I have never been that early so I don't know how the bite would be.... but if they can be accessed from shore....it would be right there.
@@fishtasy I’ll be taking up striper trolling shortly. I plan on pulling Alabama rigs. I can catch anything that swims, fishing is the only thing I’ve ever been REALLY good at. I’m a good paramedic, a pretty fair blacksmith, but I’m an excellent fisherman. Once I get rolling y’all ought come fish with me. I guarantee you’ll like the price! I’m from Denton, NC.
Yes they are put back into the pay lake. This is technically tournament fishing. We pay a certain amount to fish at this particular ‘enclosed’ pond and money is won for highest weight by winning “pots.” Some of the pay lakes have mats, and some do not (like this one). If a lake doesn’t have the provided landing mats, no one brings their own. The owner of the lake takes care of the fish health… whenever you take the fish to the scales to be weighed, some ponds treat the fish before it’s released but the lakes are maintained by an owner year round. Even if this wasn’t the case, carp are invasive to North American waterways and are encouraged by the wildlife commission to be removed. Bow hunting carp is a popular sport over here.
@@fishtasy it’s crazy to me that a lot of people bow hunt them! As a carp angler from the uk it’s so different to the USA it’s insane! Every lake requires mats and carp care.
@@Alexwillsher I believe it’s largely due to the fact that they are so invasive over here, destroying native fish populations. Pay lakes have just found a way to monetize an otherwise bad situation. Plus, since the pay lakes are all enclosed ponds, the carp in privately owned lakes aren’t interfering with native species populations in the waterways. European carp fishing is similar to how American anglers fish for native trout.
have you guys ever looked into pole/rising float fishing for carp? Japanese and Koreans only use this method. You will catch more and have more fun. check it out!
