Reply by: MathGeek      Posted: 10/4/2012 6:19:59 PM     Points: 351    

My daughter caught one (an 8 lb carp) last weekend on a jointed J-11 Rapala. I have several in my tackle box, and I am trying to recall if it was a gold colored one or a silver one that I had painted with a metallic orange fingernail polish. This was just a few minutes after she caught a 3 lb rainbow on a jointed J-9 in the brook trout pattern with the orange belly. Both fish were caught trolling the lure about 10 feet deep in 20-25 ft of water along the south shoreline a Pueblo. The trolling depth was reached by using a Walker diving planer. Orange is proving to be our best color at Pueblo, just as it is our best color at Elevenmile.

 Reply by: Wisconsin      Posted: 10/4/2012 7:45:38 PM     Points: 152    

We ve caught too many, in 2 week-ends ( sat. only) we landed 16 of them trolling for walleyes. We were trolling flicker shad, shad raps and just about any deep diving crank baits don't even want to fish Pueblo afraid of catching another one of those ugly things. Besides the ratio of legal size verses small ones is not good ,we were trolling 80 ft at 1.5 mph good luck WISCO.

 Reply by: JonHaugh      Posted: 10/4/2012 9:11:10 PM     Points: 5    

what about from shore? does it work the same?

 Reply by: MathGeek      Posted: 10/4/2012 9:18:32 PM     Points: 351    

I wish I could tell you if crank baits would work on carp from shore. I've never been able to replicate from shore the lure presentations I can accomplish trolling.

 Reply by: JonHaugh      Posted: 10/4/2012 9:59:44 PM     Points: 5    

fair enough. i guess ill have to look into a boat soon then. thanks

 Reply by: culinarypunk      Posted: 10/4/2012 11:29:19 PM     Points: 551    

My wife and I were fishing a wind blown shore by the dam and she caught this on a jointed rap...

 Reply by: takeakidfishing      Posted: 10/5/2012 1:11:01 AM     Points: 5475    

Dang the secert is getting out..Crank Baits at certain times of year will catch Carp..Carp will eat small fish,crawfish etc. Just like a bass or walleye..You can catch Carp from shore using cranks..find active ponds and lead them much as you would bone fish or red fish..A tip for you..watch some web videos on Bone fishing and red fishing and apply the same tactics to carp and you will be pretty shocked on how many you will catch.


Erik

 Reply by: Bassackwards      Posted: 10/5/2012 1:43:45 AM     Points: 2327    

I have been catching carp on crankbaits, jerkbaits and spinnerbaits for years. Both from my canoe and from shore. I have had the best luck with gold and silver...mostly gold.

Bring pliers along, or you"ll have a heck of a time getting the lure out.

 Reply by: JonHaugh      Posted: 10/5/2012 10:06:03 AM     Points: 5    

thanks all of you for the help. btw thats a good looking fish.

 Reply by: fishstryker      Posted: 10/5/2012 10:57:17 AM     Points: 0    

I have caught carp on tons of odd lures. It seems the right times they hit anything. I caught a couple nice ones during spawn season with a floating fluorescent orange rapala. Fun times.

 Reply by: oparker      Posted: 10/14/2012 2:24:01 PM     Points: 80    

carp spawn year round so hey are very teritorial and they will attack anything that comes to close

 Reply by: leengarn      Posted: 10/22/2012 10:04:36 AM     Points: 0    

I fished Pueblo first time ever Saturday with my son (7 yrs old). We were trying everything in the boat looking for mostly walleye. Tried worm harnesses, jigs and spoons.Was jigging a pearl PK spoon in 25 fow and had a hard strike from a big fish. Had visions of wiper or walleye. After 15 minutes of give and take we netted this carp. Unsure of his exact length as he was significantly longer than my measuring stick but he went 10+ lbs. He swallowed that PK just like a walleye would have. That was the only fish we caught. Chalked up our slow day to learning a new lake and a glut of threadfin dying off. Needless to say both my son and I had a hoot landing that carp.

 Reply by: finsnfeathers      Posted: 10/23/2012 1:08:37 PM     Points: 57    

Carp are aggresive predators