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Carp Chumming Bait

Carp fishing bait, secret and not so secret recipes?

Asking again, in serious desperation. I'm at Lake Lavon in Texas... The carp are everywhere and you can see them. I've so far had no luck...

Anyway, I've tried:
-Strawberry jello with corn soaking in it, use the jello'd corn for bait.
-bread
-pizza dough
-another mixture I found online with dog food, molasses, wheaties, flour, and more...

These 4 haven't worked yet at all. I had a turtle take one of the baits... Prying the hook out of his poor little mouth was a blast (sarcasm for real)...

Before I fish, I lightly chum the area with whatever I'm fishing with.
Carp are there, I see them, just not getting any attention after hours and hours of waiting.

--Any bait advice?
--What is pickled corn? Anyone know if this works on Texas common carp (I think that's what we have, with the orangish fins and all).
--Is there a wrong way to be fishing for them? I've tried bottom fishing and with a bobber.

Bread:
Bread should work as is. If you don't knead it, it will dissolve too quickly. But if you roll it into a dough ball that's very hard, it will loose its effectiveness by a pretty big margin. Rolling it into the right hardness is the key. Roll wet bread and dry bread together will help you get the right hardness a little easier. The dough should feel like the tip of your nose.

Pizza dough:
Many pizza dough also contain oil. Some pizza doughs are very oily. If it is not working, then the water is not warm enough yet. Oily baits worked the best in warm waters.

Dog food:
Grind up dog chows and turn it into dough balls. If it doesn't stick, add some flour when necessary. Like pizza dough, dog chows contained some oil.

Wheaties:
Wheaties will work as is. Just crush it and turn it into dough balls and it will work. Like all dough baits, hardness is important. Anything too hard will not dissolve fast enough to attract fish. You can add bread or flour to soften it up. You can get away with harder doughs in warm waters.

Easy and effective dough bait: Peanut butter (sweet) sandwich. Take small pieces and roll it into dough balls.

PS: Carp could be very light biters. Many times, they are eating your bait without you even knowing. Very light lines and very light rods will help you detect those light bites much better.
PPS: Smaller dough balls will get you more hits. My dough balls are about the size of boilies. I usually use octopus hooks between size 8 to size 2. I match my hook to my dough balls' size and I use smaller dough balls in cold water.

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What to do with exotic fish?

I have a major dilemma.

In SE Florida I have a large pond that I fish in. It has Bass, Carp, Golden shiners, Bluegill, Redbreast sunfish, Catfish and EXOTICS! Tons of them.

So many of them in fact that the ratio is 7 exotics to 3 native... The native fish are small and the exotics are huge.

The last exotic that I caught was a 6lb Tilapia and on average the exotics weigh in about 2-5 lbs... Most days that I fish I catch about 20 fish... That's way to many exotics to give away or feed to my dog, when I fish 4+ times a week. I can't leave them on the bank because there would be a mound of rotting fish after a few days. I can't make chum out of all of them because i have nowhere to store it or get rid of it.

I've thought of making chum and selling it to bait stores, but that presents even more problems, such as the roe, commercial fishing license and so on.

What do I do?

I really enjoy fishing this pond because it's large and has potential record fish in it.

Kill them!

We are currently "battling" the infamous "Snake head" fish from Asia in US waters. The Snakehead breeds quicker, grows faster, can "walk/wriggle" it's way across to other lakes /ponds and has NO PREDATORS!

It also breathes air!

I have caught Knife-fish, Cichlids & Tilapia and although they are no longer considered "intrusive" to our FLA environs they still impact the breeding & growth of our native Bass, Brim, Crappie, Etc.

If I catch one, I Kill it! They are non-native fish that will (over time) devastate any/all populations of Bass, Bluegill, Sunfish, Cats, Etc.

In other words, the Tilapia I've caught always "make it to the table".

As to WHAT to do with them after eliminated?

Use them as nutrient's for your garden. Chums a good idea! Start "crabbing" and use them as bait. Tilapia are actually very tasty!

I liked Roxcy's idea about giving them away to Animal shelters or Marine institutes.

Whatever you do make sure they are "deceased" before letting them go into another waterway!

I just watched a TV program about the Snakehead from Asia. If we don't "watch out" there won't be any more "cool" Bass tourneys. We will have Snakehead tourneys in the future!

Google "Snakehead fish" and read about it yourself.

Good fishing!

UPDATE: Fishingidiot- "Exotic" species of ANY type of animal/insect/aquatic/Etc can and WILL "kill off" native species and "over-run" the environment. The reason they are able to do this is because they are not natural to the environment and have no "enemys".

Case in point-- Cichlids/Knife-fish/Tilapia have begun to over-run native fish habitat and slowly "take over" lakes & streams in South FLA. This means eventually NO MORE BASS, CRAPPIE, BLUEGILL, ETC. The exotics are 3 times more aggresive, can reproduce quicker, and if left "unchecked" would "kill-off" all native species.

Can you imagine going Bass-fishing & only being able to catch Tilapia or Cichlids?

Intrusive exotic species are SUPER dangerous to ANY environment! Look up "Zebra mussel"!