Carping in the Heat

My "big boy" for the night

Yesterday was the first day of a really hot spell after what was already some pretty warm weather. I knew first thing in the morning where my friend Dave would be fishing that  evening. I might have known even before he did. When we get the hot summer weather, there is one place that the carp fishing is really good. It has been a semi tradition to fish at this spot when the thermometer spikes.

The catch... the carp are really small. Sometimes they are as small as eight to ten inches. Anything over four pounds is considered a good fish at this place. There probably isn't a fish over eight pounds.  Honestly, this is fine with me. The fish are very scrappy. We just want to catch fish and at this time of year, size does not matter.

He got to the spot first. However fishing wasn't that good, so we ended up fishing another spot just down the street. It was from the same river system, and the carp are the same small scrappy fish. We ended up having a very productive couple of hours. We ended up catching a total of six carp. We each got a really good one between 6-8 pounds. Those are trophy fish in this venue. So, considering how hot it was and the air was so dead, we were ecstatic to combine for six fish (  he caught the most). All in all it was a fun night. We will certainly be doing it again during this hot weather.