Besides those carp are pretty smart and will avoid you like the plague after you shoot one or two of em, they will haul ass as soon as they see or hear you coming. I got them to come to feed for about a week, letting eat all they wanted, then I shot a couple and that was all she wrote, after that, as soon as they heard or saw me, they were gone.
Gregg
I agree with this, with one possible exception - when the carp are spawning. That makes them stupid, or at least hugely "distracted".
I have observed carp rolling over each other during the spawn in a large reservoir. We wanted to check how big the fish were, so we waded into the shallow water with our landing net and caught multiple carp.
They weren't quite breaching the surface, so I don't know if it would be possible to shoot them at that time. However, I believe two guys with a 100' seine could have pulled 20 at a time onto the shore on the day we were dipping them out.
