but Huffman prefers size two or four circle hooks. He acknowledges that this is personal preference, and most anglers in the carp world likely find it odd and suggest using a smaller traditional bait ...

You can buy dough baits or make your own. Although you can wad up a chunk of white bread and put it on a hook, carp aficionados add scent to their dough baits like vanilla, Jell-o mix or even ...

This style of reel is commonly used by serious carp anglers because these fish have ultra-sensitive mouths. When they vacuum a bait off the bottom, the slightest bit of resistance or pinch from the ...

to combat a carp’s sensitive mouth. With a hair rig, the bait is never threaded onto the hook, but rather threaded on a short trace of leader that extends slightly beyond the hook. The idea is ...

I'm here with Antonio, the boatless angler today fishing for carp. When it comes to fishing the shore lines, there's a lot of great boatless angler opportunities for carp fishing, especially along the ...

The barbed hook will greatly reduced the risk of your carp eating your bait and then slipping away by attaching itself to the inside of the carp’s mouth. Try using a whisker barb to reduce the ...

🐟HIGH TENSILE STRENGTH: The hooks are made of 82B high-carbon steel, the Japan imported top-scale steel material that offers high strength. The forged bend gives fish hooks body of reinforced ...

saying they’ve used them to hook as many as 100 fish in a single afternoon. Canned corn particularly is known to be a great bait for reeling in trout, carp, bluegill, and perch. Some fishermen ...

Artificial carp dough baits also routinely come in fruity flavors ... Mold a small piece of the bread around your hook, then flatten it out so it’ll float, and cast around your chum pieces.

Freshwater carp have proliferated at an epic scale in the Illinois River. (Courtesy of Madelyn Beck/Harvest Public Media) But one person's invasive species, it turns out, could be another's bait.