My first Big Carp

[AnglerX]

So old Rratlappi was my Tackle shop, when Bill retired and closed the shop it left a huge cap in my fishing setup. I'm a Rock&Surf angler but living in Pta i need to get a line or two after the carp from time to time, but I don't know much about carp angling except what you need so Bill helped me with conditions and waters and what to ddo wwhen.

I was quite surprised when Leisure angling opened up in the same shopping centre and Deepak and Barry seemed very clued up and extremely helpfull. So I popped in again on saturday 22 Jan and told Deepak I am on my way to my old spot at magaliespark. I told him I don't know much, but if he can explain again. So he started from the beginning, from feeding how often etc. he then explained all the different ground feed and I decided on his own "secret mixture".

Off to Magalies aat 06:00 and did everything as he explained, it was slightly different as to what I normally did, mixed less grounfeed, did ssome feeding when I got there and repeated that every 2-3 hours and initially only left the bait out there for 20-30 minutes ata time.

Just after 08:00 I had my first run on BG (passion fruit) and a small carp of about 1.5 kg. quickly back into the water and 20min later the one rod went of screeming.

As luck will have it the one day that I forget my scale at home, this beauty shows up. She is by far the biggest I have caught to date. Last trip myself and Enigma caught some 7-7.5 kg carp and this is definately bigger. Unfortunately the guy next to me only had a scale up to 6kg and this one pulled that flat without hesitating or slowing down for a second.

The rough measurements for the fish is lengh: 82-85cm and width 25-28 cm.

Please let me know what you experts out there beleive or guess the weight might be!

Thanx Deepak for all your help and advise you guys are it!!

  

 

[AnglerX]

I caught 20 fish for the day, 4 carp between 3.5 and 4.5 kg and alot of the 1-2 kg range and one barbel. That stuff that Deepak mix surely works!

 

[Naruto]

Nice en geluk met die mooi vangste. Waar is Magaliespark?

 

[pumamangp]

nice catch, well done. yeah the guys at leisure angling are gr8. its one of the best stores around.

 

[zwickey]

Hi my name is Andre, this is my first reply on the forum

 

this is just a rough estimate and should give you and indication:

Lengthxlengthxgirth/1000=wheight in pounds(length and girth should be in inches)

The problem is that you didnt measure your fish's girth just the width, as an estimate you can multiply that by 2

that makes it a 9.1 kg fish

Hope it helps

Ps: if you measured the width in a straight line you can add about 10cm to your girth calculation

 

[AnglerX]

Naruto wrote:

Nice en geluk met die mooi vangste. Waar is Magaliespark?

Hi Naruto, baie dankie, Magaliespark is 'n vakansie/tyddeeloord by Harties waar die Magaliesrivier in die Hartebeespoortdam inloop. Hulle het so stukkie dam oewer waar die dam maar nog baie nou is, so half dam half rivier inloop. 

 

[AnglerX]

Thanx Andre and welcome to Sealine!!

I never new that one can "ballpark" calculate a carp's weight on emasurements like we do with saltwater fish.

I didn't measure the fish at the dam, I measured my own body parts as reference and then calculated the fish's estimated lenght and width being somewhat conservative.

I judged the fish to be maybe just over the 10kg range based on the weight in hand, but that is absolutely thumbsucking something that never want to be still!!

Thanx for your input, much appreciated! 

 

[pumamangp]

a safe guess would be between 6kg-9kg. id guess it at about 7kg.

 

[Floris]

HI Angler X het jy nie dalk n nommer van die magieliespark wie eke kan bel om om sessie te reel.

 

[zwickey]

Hi

Hier is n website met n vis gewig calculator

 

http://www.bassresource.com/bassfishing/fishcalculator.html

 

[AnglerX]

Floris wrote:

HI Angler X het jy nie dalk n nommer van die magieliespark wie eke kan bel om om sessie te reel.

Hi Floris, Magaliespark is 'n tyddeel vakansie oord. Jy kan net daar inkom as jy 'n bespreking het om te bly of as jy 'n golf afslaantyd het. As jy tyddeel daar het, dan kan jy as dagbesoeker ingaan om te hengel of om net vir die dag daar te braai en swem. Miskien ken jy iemand?

 

[AnglerX]

zwickey wrote:

Hi

Hier is n website met n vis gewig calculator

 

http://www.bassresource.com/bassfishing/fishcalculator.html

Hi Andre, as ek die geskatte measurements gebruik, dan is die vis net oor die 10kg. Klink omtrent wat ek gedink het. Sal verseker nie weer gaan sonder my skaal nie, dan weet ek presies. Dankie vir die inligting!

 

[zwickey]

Plesier maat

Ek het n paar jaar terug daar daar by magalies gevang, mooi vis uitgekom.

 

[Floris]

HI AnglerX

ek sal laik om die stukkie water met effens stroom specimen style te hengel ma sal paar dae nodig he.

ek dink rerg harties het groot karps in sal plan moet maak om met die mense te gan gesels.

 

[marshall]

Angler x well done. Its always great to try something new and end up with a nice catch. That ground feed has caught alot of big carp and i have been using the method for the past 10 years. A good ground feed is key, and if carp love it then you are always going to catch them on it. We have had quite a few anglers that have tried it and they have all started landing bigger and more fish than using their previous methods. The trick in a ground feed is to try and keep the carp in the zone  for longer and by using the feed you got from Leisure Angling you can do just that. Keep on going at it im very sure that this fish you caught is but only one of many bigger fish still to fall pray to your method. 

 

[lyslexic]

Great catch. Well done

Do they allow day visitors?

 

[AnglerX]

marshall wrote:

Angler x well done. Its always great to try something new and end up with a nice catch. That ground feed has caught alot of big carp and i have been using the method for the past 10 years. A good ground feed is key, and if carp love it then you are always going to catch them on it. We have had quite a few anglers that have tried it and they have all started landing bigger and more fish than using their previous methods. The trick in a ground feed is to try and keep the carp in the zone  for longer and by using the feed you got from Leisure Angling you can do just that. Keep on going at it im very sure that this fish you caught is but only one of many bigger fish still to fall pray to your method. 

Hi Marshall. Just a quick question: You belong to Leisure waters angling club and your avatar is marshall........maybe it is you Barry??? being the marshall and all at Leisure Lakes?

Well irrespective, that ground bait works very well and it attracts the fish fast! 

 

[AnglerX]

lyslexic wrote:

Great catch. Well done

Do they allow day visitors?

Sorry they don't you have to show your membership card if yiu want to enter as a day visitor.

 

[Enigma]

Great fish Beaurex, glad you keeping the fishing going whether it be at the sea or local.

Guys in terms of the fish weight it'll have to go over 9kg, Beaurex (AnglerX) makes the fish look small in his hands.  I have some pic's of him holding a few 6-6.5kg carp and this one is definitely bigger

2 of our upcomming juniors fished a 72 hour comp style session at one of the eco parks on the bank opposite Magalies and caught 300kg of fish averaging 6kg with the biggest fish comming in at 9-10,5kg unfortunately they were placed in an area where the river drop is about 250m from the bank so they only got fish at night whn the fish came up onto the banks to eat

 

[AnglerX]

Hi Craig, well reading your PE posts and watching your exploits with Raggies, Thorntails and everything else that needs steel for hooksnoot, I had to get something in the water, so old magalies had a visit. Exactly the same place we fished last time, that seems to be my new favourite place there. Can't believe I left my scale at home man, but yes that fish was much bigger than the ones I caught last time. Compared to them I estimated her to be close to 10kg if not making it just, just.