Carp

 

Yesterday I spent another few hours out at the spillway in hopes of pulling in some bass or catfish, or just anything in general really. I suppose my lack of focus on catching particular types of fish has been what has lead to my not really catching anything as of late, so after this trip I may thought I might as well begin focusing up a bit more; Not to mention going out with some actual bait instead of just tossing lures all the time.

Despite my not catching anything this time, it was an exciting trip out just from what I had witnessed. You see, in late April/Early May, the carp tend to move into shallower waters to spawn. It just so happens that they had opened the dam almost completely up, putting a lot of the familiar fishing areas I'm used to under quite a bit of water. In fact, I'd say that I've never seen the water so deep before. 

By raising the water level considerably, it flooded the normally swampy area with two to three feet of water, allowing for some truly massive carp to make their way into the warm, shallow, and very muddy waters to spawn. 

And believe me, when I say, I have never been witness to this before, so when I saw what was easily a twelve-inch long carp swimming along in such shallow waters, I quickly doused the closest thing I had to corn-like lure with this foul-smelling gel and tossed it in hopes of hooking one of them. 

And that's when things started getting really interesting as a whole school of carp started pouring into the flooded area.