Show ny jim Carp Can Be Fun Carp on light can be an exciting pastime which sportsmen's groups and individual anglers would do well to include in their plans for the 1951 says the Ontario Department of Lands and At least two southern Ontario at Brantford and Port have done such a good Job in getting members Interested in angling for the fish that each spring they hold in which prizes are given for the most carp and the largest Those who have fished carp say that some of them and they grow battle like a if they are taken on a casting rod and light a writes one carp-fishing battle for 20 minutes and still have lots of pep For those who would like to take up this carp-angling and thereby help out the game one the Port Perry group passes along the following a casting rod and a line of 14 to 20 pound test and a 4 or 6 hook with a single A double-gutted hook allows the carp to feel that it has something in its mouth other than food and it will usually spit it on the When the carp takes hold of the bait allow It to run well as one would do in minnow fishing for This allows the carp to swallow the as the hook is set the battle is on believe me they can really put up a this same angler is a mixture of corn-syrup and put one cup of water In a a cup of corn-syrup or cook until the mixture Is a stiff Allow it to cool until it can be then place it on a mixing or and work in flour until It becomes a very stiff ready to fish take off a piece when rolled into a will cover the This will stay on the hook for some A sinker at the end of the line is AAA How How far and fast does a hatchery bass travel after release in fishing These and other interesting data will be recorded at Lake Tex-oma this year if anglers will cooperate at the state's biggest lake on the southern edge of Eight hundred largemouth black released last February from the state hatchery near were marked with small metal numbered for future To date more than twenty caught by fishermen have been reported to the state game and fish according to H. C. head of the department's fisheries AAA Sunfish Staff biologists of the West Virginia conservation commission's division of fish management recently became aware of a sunfish in Lake near Some anglers wondered what the fish might Technicians of the Commission identified it as a Lepo-mis or the western called the red-ear This species of closely related to the pumpkinseed has never been found in West Virginia Undoubtedly it has been introduced into Lake from midwestern state The fish has a general shape more like a crappie than the typical or other sunfish Its pectoral fin is very long and The flap has a bright or red at baud on the The maximum size this fish attains is about 12 in crowded lake conditions it generally doesn't get much longer than seven The has not been collected elsewhere in West Virginia than Lake It is that it has undoubtedly escaped from the lake and may be found in some of the Kanawha River drainage This species is generally found only in the Mississippi River in Missouri and from southern south to Alabama and the Rio It has been found in Lake Michigan drainage from The fish is commonly found in or near warm bayous It is found in Buckeye near and in a few other lakes in the State of AAA |