Category: carp fishing

Hi Italo, i just wonder about something. I used to fish this spot on a river quite often and i would catch carp there year after year, yet the weird thing is i never once caught or saw a young fish there. All the carp caught there ever were older fish. It just seems unusual. Not really important question but i would like to hear your thoughts lol Thank you!

Posted on October 31st, 2020

Hi Angler,

There are mature carp feeding areas and juvenile carp feeding areas. Sounds like you are fishing an area where mature fish feed.

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God bless you,

Italo

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Hi ItaloI am new to bottom fishing for carp. I have 3 questions for you. 1. Do i need a flourocarbon/mono leader?, how good is carp eyesite. 2. I use a hair rig with boiles or corn. Should i fix the weight at the top of the leader or let it slide along the main line?, i have read free moving prevents carp from feeling it but fixed hooks them better, very confusing to a beginer. 3. I fish very weedy shallow water usually, is there any other tips to help the bait go down and not get suspended in the weeds?, is it ok if the bait is not all the way down on the bottom and gets stuck in the weeds abit?, would carp still bite it. Thank you very much Italo!, i love your show and watch all your youtube videos.

Posted on May 30th, 2019

Hi Jack, thank you for your kind words. When fishing for carp on the bottom, the bait and line should lay on the bottom so the carp won’t see it. For this reason you don’t need to use a fluorocarbon leader. Whatever carp bait you choose to use, it should be rigged on a sliding-sinker rig and fished on the bottom. When a carp picks up the bait it should not feel the weight if the line goes through the sinker. If you have not used a “feeder”, I would encourage you too. It’s a mechanism that normally has a build-in weight and designed so that you can compress a carp putty inside it. Many carp anglers mix corn meal with white flour and sweet kernel corn, etc. and press it into the feeder. When the rig hits the bottom the feeder slowly releases the scented putty which attracts the carp to it and they find the hooked bait. If you are fishing an area that has a lot of vegetation on the bottom I would suggest you find a spot on the bottom that has a hard bottom or sand in-between the weeds where your bait can get right to the bottom and be easily detected by feeding carp…God bless you.

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what is your favourite place to fish for carp within 2 hours of newcastle

Posted on May 13th, 2016

Hi Ethan, Darlington Provincial  Park, Lake Ontario.

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Best time will start in June when the water warms up a little.

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I’ve watched your video about carping in hamilton. I myself fish at fisherman’s pier aswell. My question is, what baits and flavours do you find work best for the Hamilton harbour carps. and what do you recommend for chum/feed.

Posted on March 28th, 2016

Glad you enjoyed our Carp TV shows on YouTube. The pier can produce really big carp. We had the best success on the Carp Zoom corn kernels rigged on a hair-rig in honey & strawberry flavor.

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We also rigged-up some Carp Zoom Boilies and did well. We used Carp Zoom ground bait as well as making our own by boiling “maze” (cattle corn) and mixing it with boiled corn meal, honey, & white flour).

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Hi again, I was thinking about carp and brown trout movements through seasons in a relatively small/medium lake.

Posted on October 21st, 2015

In Ontario we really don’t have brown trout lakes. The only small lakes I know are those where browns have been stocked by private landowners we no public access.

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I don’t believe the Ontario government stocks in-land waters with browns. Browns can tolerate warmer water temps than rainbow or brook trout and in those small lakes they usually feed along shorelines and on the surface in the spring & fall. In winter they mainly feed along the shorelines in water depth of 6-15′. That is their consistent depth. If the lake warms-up in the summer time they can suspend where water temperatures are 50-60+F degrees. So they really don’t have a big seasonal movement.

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Carp will feed shallow and deep in the spring, summer and fall. Their main movement in the winter time when lakes they are in freeze over is to migrate and hold in the main-channel or main-lake basin and they become very lathargic. I have only caught on carp icefishing for walleye on a vertical jigging spoon (was very surprised). In the spring they can be seen splashing in very shallow water either staging for spawning or in the process of spawning. After spawning they scatter throughout a lake system to feed on a variety of organism. Most of their feeding is on the bottom for a mix of crustaceans, invertabrates and plants. They seldom feed deeper than 25′, but can adapt very well at feeding at different depths depending on the type of food that is available. For the most part they are caught throughout the spring, summer & fall in water less than 15′ deep.

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Hi Italo I want to use some boilies to fish for carp. I have a feeder that slides along the line but wondered what would be a good ..cheap ground bait to pack in there when using the boilies Also if you could only try one flavour boilie what would you use Thanks

Posted on June 27th, 2014

Hi Jim…I usually make by ground bait by boiling some “maze” (dry cattle corn that I buy in bulk). I let the corn soak overnight and than boil it for about :45min the next day. Once the corn is cooked, I mix it with corn-meal, sometimes oatmeal and I use some honey to make it into a light putty so I can pack it into my feeder, or use shoot some out with my sling-shot. Some of my friends also add powdered Jello to get a certain color and flavor. If I had only one flavor of boilie to use I would use the Carp Zoom in Honey flavor….God bless you, Italo

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Hi Italo just watched your river carp episode. Just wondering what ingredients went into making the ground bait you used on the feeder. Thanks Ryan

Posted on June 26th, 2014

Hi Ryan…Lately I have been using the Carp Zoom Ground Bait formula since it works well and it’s already pre-mixed. If I make my own I boil some “maze” (cattle corn that I purchase in bulk, dry at a Co-Op feed mill). I take about 1 lb. of dry corn and let it soak overnight in water, than the next day I boil it until it softens up, but not too soft. I take the boiled corn and mix it with corn meal that I purchase at a Bulk Barn, some honey and that’s about it. I mix it up with some water so that it gets ‘doughy” enough that I can squeeze it into my feeder. Some of my friends add fruit flavored Jello powder to add color and taste like strawberry, raspberry, etc. It all works well. I think the key is the corn and having a greater portion of corn meal in the mix so that it “teases’ them, but they don’t eat too much corn and are still hungry to take the bait….God bless you, Italo

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I live in Niagara Falls and want to go carp and cat fishing where are some good areas to do this close it home. thanks Alessandro

Posted on April 10th, 2014

Hi Alessandro…Best time to go carp fishing will be when the high water subsides and warms up. The lake in Fireman’s Park right in Niagara Falls is good for average size carp as is the Welland River, right in Welland, ON. The Upper Niagara River at 1427 Niagara Parkway (marina), is an excellent place for trophy carp. You fish the shoreline just south of the marina basin fence. Best Channel Cat fishing area is on the Grand River in Dunnville, ON, from shore at Fishmasters Marina. Best bait for channel catfish is fresh chunks of white sucker meat fished on the bottom on a sliding-sinker rig. Best bait for carp is cured corn kernels, sweet canned corn kernels and prepared dough-baits….God bless you, Italo

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Hi Italo Im asking you this because I know you know the area. In Oshawa in Second March is it allow to fish We are want to go carp fishing there. We want to fish not from the GM side. Thank you!

Posted on June 11th, 2013

Hi Marius…Yes, you can carp fish there…God bless you, Italo

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Can I get carp zoom products in Ontario

Posted on February 25th, 2013

Hi Tom…Yes you can, just contact, http://www.csidistribution.ca/index.php/services/carp-zoom, to find out where…God bless you, Italo

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