I personally wouldn’t eat anything that comes out of that river, although some people do. And, unless I’m fishing with someone that wants to keep the fish I catch, I always put them back for next time

Dave,

No problem.

Here’s the story:
Me and the rugrat are at this paylake trying to catch bluegill and anything else that will bite. We are using live nightcrawlers that we caught earlier in the week after the heavy rains.
The panfish aren’t biting too well as we only have 4 in the basket. For a while, I had seen some carp sunning back in this cove. I know that sunning carp are skittish and don’t bite at all, but the day is slow so I have to try. What I do is rig up a live 8″ nightcrawler wacky style with a rubber o-ring on a small size 4 worm hook (just like a senko), this crawler is huge, as thick as my pinky finger. I rig it weightless and I need this to have some bouancy so I inject the worm with some air from a medical syringe. This really pisses it off. The thing starts flopping around like a bass out of water. I position myself so the fish is facing away from me and about 15-20 feet away. I flip the bait right in front of him about 6 inches from his nose and it is wiggling like mad. He looks at it for about 4 seconds and drifts over and sucks it up and I set the hook immediately knowing that he is only mouthing it as most carp do and will spit it out as soon as he feels anything other than the bait. A strong hookset and I have it right through the upper jaw. It takes off for deep water with no success and then tries rubbing the hook off in the shallows. A few minutes later it is photo time and a quick release. Boy was that fun.
My daughter was going nuts with excitement and now I can just kick myself in the butt for not handing the rod off to her. I’ve got plenty of big carp to my name already. I need to let her feel their strength next time.

Oh yeah, I like how most of your catch photos never quite reveal your fishing location. Nice.

LOL…

You know my email…if you want to know, all you have to do is ask

Actually, if you start near the 38 or KTX bridge and walk the shore, you can find lots of areas with rocks in the water. Or the new river road by Humphreys

To post a pic in the comment section, all you have to do is have a valid link (like flickr or photobucket etc), and then use the following html but replace the (&) with < & >:

(img src=”http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Track/5796/WAHOO.GIF”)

Or you can email me the pic and I can post it for you.

Unfortunately, I can’t go to Andong…I have an acute fear of heights (4th floor is about my limit) and after Rob told me what I’d be up against on the way there (high bridges, mountains etc), I’ll be sticking to the local lakes and rivers

Dave,

Thanks!

Looks like you finally hit pay dirt. Hope you all will be at the international tournamnet at Andong next week.