All that advice I learned here from the forum family - so thank you Pond Boss! Maybe someone on the dock totes a shotgun so when you get them close, they can help finish the job and shorten the fight.

180 grass carp for a six acre lake? You certainly weren't messing around. I know the feeling.

I think we can collectively help you here - lots of friends here that live in Ohio. Maybe you can host a grass carp roundup/tournament? I sure would love to see you hoisting some more monster YP sometime soon.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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