Carp Fishing

Summer is the perfect time to try your luck at carp fishing. Carp are widely recognized as an invasive species known to cause problems in the waterways they call home. They suck up all the food and reduce the quality of the water, hurting more sensitive marine populations. Luckily for anglers, carp can grow to massive sizes and are a ton of fun to catch.

Carp can be found in most waterways. You might need to do some local research to find out which ones have known and fishable carp populations.

The next step is a lot of preparation. Get yourself canned corn, vanilla extract, sugar and Tupperware. Pour the can of corn into the Tupperware with a dash of vanilla and the sugar. Let this sit out at least overnight and then take it to your preferred fishing spot.

Toss handfuls of corn into the spot you want to fish. Repeat this process a few times, and you will train the carp to come to this part of the water when they see and smell the vanilla and sugar.

When you’re ready to actually fish, you want to use a pretty heavy line with a small hook. Bait the water in a similar way to when you were prepping the spot. Once the spot is prepped, take one kernel of corn and put it on your hook, with just the tiniest piece of hook protruding from the corn. Toss it in the middle of the chum and wait.

Make sure to leave the bail on the reel open, otherwise the carp will take your whole rod into the middle of the lake.