Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Fishing for Common Carp

Ask him about using whole kernel corn for carp...........

Dwight, here's how I got him on the carp, and how I was taught to fish for them as a kid.

Take a can of whole kernel corn. Drain the liquid, and take a handful and throw it out as far as you can in the pond. Do that with the whole can full of corn.

I used to use 8# test line and a gold #2 Aberdeen hook. Fatih didn't like them, because he said they straightened out too easily. I told him to set the drag at 3# and he wouldn't have a problem. He didn't listen and didn't set the drag properly and straightened out the hook.

Anyway.......

Thread individual kernels onto the hook until it is completely covered from know to tip. I never used a weight, and just cast it out into the area that I chummed. If the wind was flat, (early morning) I would wait until I saw bubbles coming up from an area, and then cast about 2'-3' past the bubbles, and let the hook/corn sink.

Either way, you will catch them that way. I'd leave 4'-5' of slack in the line and when the line tightened up, they'd be hooked.

I have caught them to 20# that way, and I believe Fatih caught a 14# that way.