Forum | Carp Fishing, does anyone still do it?

Oh, it's going.  It's been so bloody hot here this summer that it isn't even fun to go fishing.  When the sweat is pouring down your face and back out on the lake by 10:00 in the morning, it's just too darned HOT!  But otherwise, life is good.

In answer to your post, some people do fish for carp here in the states, but not nearly enough and I don't know why not!  Carp grow to enormous proportions and they're just about everywhere in the country.  And even though people don't eat them, that's not a reason not to fish for them because most people don't eat bass and muskie.

I would think that with the level of European carp angling, if people were to use those same methods here, they'd be hip deep in carp before they knew it.  Our fish haven't gotten anywhere close to the same pressure that the European fish have…

I think my question is fairly straightforward, has anyone ever fished for carp, or still do it?

The reason I ask is when I was a kid, I used to fish for carp all the time on the Rock River back in Wisconsin.

It taught me many things, the importance of a good drag, how to fight a big fish on light tackle, and I even made some money doing this.  People would come out from Milwaukee and pay me 25 cents a pound for fresh carp!

I don't know what made me think of this today, but I got to reminiscing and thought about all the carp I've caught in years past.