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mannym

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  1. That could be. Carpy see Carpy do? I will be on the little vermillion tomorrow. My brother in law will be using the fly rod, and I will bat clean up with an ultra light and a rebel wee craw. Hopefully I will have a good report to share.
  2. I too had a grass carp bite a top water, jitterbug in my case. Here is how the story went: I was fishing a small creek near Ottawa out of my canoe with my GF. We had paddled to the first riffle and I noticed what looked like a musky in the shallow spot before the riffle. When we got close, I confirmed it was a musky. I am not sure how it got there but it was there eating all the creek chubs it wanted. My only thought was it either came down the Fox or it escaped a pond upstream and made it to this creek. After getting too close ( more like almost on top of it), it took off downstream. I decided to make sure and fish all the way back to the truck with a jitterbug in hopes of hooking the big boy. I estimated it around 30 inches. After hooking a 12 inch smallmouth, I made a long cast to an eddy and out of the blue a huge surface busting attack took place. I set the hook and felt the big fish on the other end. I shouted " I got him"!!!!!!! "Baby, I got his (beep)". " How lucky is that"? After a few minutes and gaining ground, I caught a glimpse of this brute. My eyes could not have been any wider when I realized I didn't hook the musky but rather a 9 or so pound Grass carp. I laughed it off while I worked the fish till I could step out of the canoe and unhook him. My only conclusion to this rare top water carp bite was a case of mistaken identity. I had never in my years of fishing the local waters seen a carp bite the way it did.
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    What do you paddle?

    I have a 16 foot ( Roylex) Old Town Penobscot. It has been from the Vermillion to the BWCA. I can paddle it solo or tandem. It weighs in at a stocky but manageable 58 pounds. I thought about a kevlar but I would be too worried on rock infested rivers. I had no issues portaging up to 100 rods with much elevation changes. I had a few whitewater yaks with one I converted to a fishing yak and didn't like to be in them for too long. Plus they are hard to portage any distance.
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