Caught First and Second Carp of the Year Today

Went fishing today at Hopping Hill Reservoir today in search of my first carp of the year.

Last year I had my worst year ever carp fishing. As I've said before, I can remember every carp I caught last year. That goes to show, I didn't catch a hell of a lot. It was so bad that I felt like a Jonah to myself and to whoever I fished with. I fished with Dave at a place that he had never gone fishless in the five years he'd fished there. After 7 hours fishing each we caught a whole lot of nothing. Jinx does not begin to explain how bad it was. Luckily, me being a Jonah was only limited to carp fishing. Although I couldn't get a carp to save my life unless I went to an Asian fish market, I had a great year with trout.

Not only did I have a bad year, but I started off absolutely terrible. Think of a major league hitter starting off the regular season 0 for 14. Well, I didn't catch my first carp until I'd fished for them for 14 hours. You might wonder why I would keep track of that, but when you have that much time just sitting there, you have a lot of time to think of such things. I didn't catch my first carp until after Easter.

I was REALLY hoping not to go through such a streak this year. I wanted to get off to a good start. I wanted to start the year with confidence and break the curse.

Luckily for me 45 minutes into todays fishing I had my first fish of the year.It was a common carp about 11 pounds. In the next hour I had two more pick ups and another run and drop.

Things slowed down after that then I got another run. After a 5 minute battle I landed another carp. This one was a little bigger. I weighed it and it ended up being 16 pounds. Not too shabby.

I had pre baited the area I fished for the last couple days with sweet corn. When I got to my spot today I threw out a couple handfuls of corn to get the fish feeding. For bait I used sweet corn ( Green Giant) on one pole, on the other I used sweet corn that I had soaked in Skyy Pineapple Vodka. Flavored corn is very commonly used by us carp guys. Pineapple Vodka was become a very popular flavor over the last couple years. Sometimes flavored corn will outfish plain old sweet corn. Other days carp won't touch the flavorings.

Today Pineapple Vodka 2 Sweet Corn 0

More importantly, Confidence is back!!!

You guys can fish with me again!!!