How many of you bait carp with corn?

I've baited with corn but it's hard to put up a tree stand for a good shot on carp.lol

You guys get where I am going with this. I appreciate your understanding. Way to go!

It isn't legal everywhere since there is no such thing as baiting a hole for one species of fish. That being the case, check your local laws.

I used to know a man that used dog food. He would sink cans of dog food with holes puched in them in a hole. Worked extremely well.

I haven't tried dog food but if you put out a bag of cat food you'll catch some nice catfish. We had dry weather last year and I caught a catfish with a tick on it. I treated my line with tick repellent and it must of worked, haven't reeled in n a tick since.

I prefer 2-3 acre food plots...much more challenging.

I was wondering why I was cutting my feet all the time while wading. Darn cans

They've been spawning in the flood waters here. Easy targets splashing around on the bank.

I tried a chum bag of dog food at the mouth of a drainage ditch flowing in to a river one time because of limited shooting space due to trees, etc. I was there for a couple of hours and didn't draw my bow. Could have been a off day. I think if I could have left it longer it may have worked.

Is there a difference in baiting carp and baiting bear, deer, etc.?

Do you bait them when fishing with a line? My guess would be yes. Anyway, I wouldn't waste good corn on carp, and they are pretty easy to find along the lake edges in the pickerel weed. Along the creeks you just walk the bank and look for them. Never had any problem finding carp in the spring. Probably would just be referred to as chumming, so check your local and state laws.

Gets any colder here in Michigan we will be ice fishing for them

Never had to bait any carp where I have shot them. No need to figure to start even if I was able to shoot some.

I need to thin out my arrows and fish shooting rigs.

"Do you bait them when fishing with a line?"

Yep, that's why it's called baiting your hook.

Hominy works better than sweet corn, and maybe some cheap corn based Ol'Roy dog food in an onion sack weighted with a rock to get them started.

Once they start spawning along the banks there's no need to bait them.

Try rhe dollar store cat food in a box. Works great and the fish love it.

Got the carp coming in good and then the snakeheads attacked them and drove them off.

Another thing you might want to consider if you have carp in a frenzy they will mud up the waters and that will suck to see them to shoot them. Its hard enough when you have them coming back and forth and they mud up the waters as it is when your shooting at them along banks.

Corn feed carp, better eating than free range carp. wpab

I like the force feeding method the best for carp..

Years ago our club had an annual carp shoot and the second year some guys baited a small bay with corn. The third year a couple guys made carp decoys form foam, they towed them behind their canoe and made sucking sounds to get them close. All in good fun! Oh the memories!

Biggest fish I ever caught as a kid on line was like a 20 plus pound carp on a dough ball in our muddy ole crrek fishing for catfish... When I first hooked it thought I hooked a musky...8^)

I used to fish for carp a lot and they’re still fun. I can’t vouch for effectiveness for shooting but with hook and line chumming with a few handfuls of the perfect bait pays dividends. Gotta be Green Giant Golden Niblets, no cheap imitations work.

Don't open the whole can. Instead poke a bunch of holes in the ends and tie heavy fishing line around it or use a piece of garden mesh around it to hold it. Then toss it out where you want to fish. The carp get the smell but not the bait. Then when done, pull it into shore and dispose of it properly. You can place the can into a freezer bag and freeze until next trip if you wish.

Saw a fishing show on sportsman. I believe and they were fishing for carp in Africa. They took corn and boiled it with spices. Then they threw it out for carp. Spices were tumeric, paprika, black pepper, amd hot cayenne. Boiled it until soft and then started fishing. The idea that the spices would spread the scent further , so give it a go. As far as the spice amount, the more the better.

I used to fish the C & O canal in Maryland 20 years ago and would bring an old prescription bottle of grits with me. I would throw a few pinches of grits in the water and it would suspend attracting multiple fish species. I would catch bluegill until the carp would move in. Imagine my surprise the first time a 20lb carp came in and slammed my dough ball bait. I've never seen line come off a spinning reel that fast except for saltwater species. I got spooled twice until I learned to bring a larger rod n reel for the freight trains. Freshwater redfish...

Their are guides from Florida that take English people on guided carp fishing trips.They think highly of the carp as a game fish. They bait with cat food ,and corn put into a chop sack tied to a pole, and sunk in carp water.They let their bait set up rest a few days before fishing.They also eat what they catch.All this according to an article that I read in an outdoor magazine. I tied a Locust fly last time they came around, and with an 8 weight fly rod managed to catch a couple dozen of them.They were strong enough to pull my small boat around with me in it.

But do you guys eat em? Surely no one on here would shoot one without eating it.,

Babysaph...That's exactly why I stopped shooting them....Don't eat them and began to feel guilty about killing and wasting them. Now I fly fish for them and it is a BLAST on a fly rod and I can release them to perhaps catch again !!! Be safe !!! Des

I carch them in the Susquehanna River. There are always many of them. They eat a lot of gamefish eggs. If you have a garden or flower beds, they make great fertilizer. A new bush to be planted means a fishing trip for carp. The river has a lot of mud bottom so no one that I know eats them. I have even them in Asia,where they are raised commercially. I found them to be a very strong and pungent flavor.

To add to what Bassman shared above: an English friend from work knew I fished for carp and asked me to show him how I did it in MI. He proceeded to catch what to him was a real trophy, maybe an 8 pound carp? He was so delighted that he had it mounted and displayed it in his office, to the perpetual amusement of his US fishing buddies.

When he retired he really pursued the beasts, taking one on a fly rod after much effort and then entering carp tournaments where contestants would fish all night long in pretty foul weather, using rods with electronic bite “bells”, secret doughball recipes and other interesting diversions.

I did get him on to some other fish over the years but he loves those carp!

My dads neighbor used to bury them in his garden. It stunk like hell, but he ended up with some "whopper" tomatoes !

Okay, I'll admit a mind in COVID quarantine is a terrible thing... I think this calls for a flying carp head to head showdown between AspirinBuster and the trick shot kid in the Steve Crowl thread. We're talking Asian carp, the ones that go crazy from the sound of the boat motor and jump in the boat. Louisiana bayou..one point for every leaping carp hit, 0 points for a miss, -10 for every carp that lands in your boat without an arrow in it. And I'll pay $5 to watch it on youtube. Loser becomes gator bait!

Haven't tired it but have read if you take dried corn, a strong flavored koolaid or jello (multiple packs) like cherry, corn syrup, and water, bring to a boil till the corn is soft soaking up the flavor of the syrup and koolaid/jello. Then bait the area (the larger the spread the better so 5 gallon bucket or better) for 2-3 days, lakes or slow water rivers work best so it allows the sent of the koolaid/jello and corn syrup flavored corn to spread out to bring the fish in. Feeding them multiple days gets them use to the food being there and holding them near by. Spreading it over a large area, means they have to forage for it in the area that is baited, holding them there longer. It made the most sense to me of anything I've read for baiting this type of fish. DANNY

Commercial fishermen occasionally use fermented corn. You can do a search and find info. Check your local regulations.

Carp is excellent... ive eaten it plenty...

You say it is excellent eating. How did you have it fixed just curious. I've read where people catch them then put them in clean water for 3-4 days before cleaning them to eat. I seen where people will cook it then put it through a food processor and make fish cakes out of it. DANNY

There’s a river at the bottom off the back of hill that we live on… And if you head up that river a ways, you can get into some real Nuclear Submarine class carp up there.

Don’t believe I’d care to eat one though, since there are some old hat factories further upstream! Probably just a leeeetle mercury trapped in the silt through there…

Growing up, carp were the biggest fish we knew how to catch, so we spent a lot of time after them.

"But do you guys eat em? Surely no one on here would shoot one without eating it."

Hell noooo I don't eat them. I'd sooner eat the bait, and I dont shoot them either because I don't shoot anything that I won't eat.

But I do fish and anything that pulls my string is good and carp do pull hard.

If there's any carp eating folks around then they are welcome to them, otherwise they swim away.

I tie an an egg type fly that looks like corn or hominy and a big carp on a 6 weightis some serious fun.

Tell you what as posted above they are fighters on line... Once watched a fishing show they were catching them on fly rods, may have been in England... Was pretty crazy on a light weight fly rod...

Dog food

Having a big carp on the line is a ball, that fight like the dickens. Most people think they are trash fish, but if you get the midline out they are tastes, at least that's what I've been told. The English love carp and they have tournaments for them. If English want to fish big carp they should come to Lake Michigan , huge ones are swimming around during spawning.

Reminds me of the biggest carp I ever seen dead or alive or even in pictures, and I killed it with a section of ground rod...8^) (I think)

True story... Was at work in company sponsored truck during the spawn in early June and was dropped jawed driving a small dirt road next to a flooded golf course seeing a HUGE female being swarmed in the course grass in shollow water by 3 or 4 spawning males... I wouldn't have the guts to do it now days in public view, but young crazy me, gets in the back of the truck and finds a section of ground 2-1/2 - 3' long and goes stalking only about 20 - 30 yards from the road in near knee deep water and whacks the big girl on top of the head.... That either stunned or killed her to the point I grapped her by the gills and carried back to the truck... This was a remote part of the course and no vehicle or golfers yet to come by... After admiring her a few minutes, from the tip of her tail to the tip of her nose almost came up to my chest... I know she at least 40 maybe even 50 pounds... I put her along side the road and continued on to my next job, only to return after work in my personal vehicle to get better measurements butshe was gone... Whether someone picked he up or she come to and managed to flop into some water to get away, I'll never know...

Now that's a fish story, but swear it's true...8^)

I always put in garden or just threw up on bank to feed the critters. However I had a buddy who would sell our to a Jewish feller at a 711 who said he ate them.

If they smell like a skunk they must be a skunk. Pobably taste like mud.

Anything over 20 pounds is a thrill.

Carp is great smoked. Just try it...

x2 JamesPB. Very good smoked! Having said that they're an invasive and you can't kill them faster than they multiply...so killing them and using them for fertilizer, dog food, or bear bait wouldn't bother me in the least. Get closer to the cities and the Hmong community will gladly take all we can supply them with...they LOVE 'em!!

I watched some amish clean a big carp I gave them. The lady skinned it then made a cut on either side of a piece of red meat to form a deep V on either side. She grabbed that red meat with liars and pulled it out. She said "now the rest tasted like course walleye meat. I never tried it but gave them a bunch to can after that.

Ive eaten plenty of carp. It's my favorite smoked fish. Way better than trout or steelhead in my opinion. My Dad would clean them then bake them for a while before smoking them in his little electric smoker. Sometimes we ate them before they made it to the smoker.

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