Turn Bait Rig. We start the day off with a nice common carp catch, and even landed ourselves a beautiful mirror carp! A bolt rig is designed so that when a carp bites your bait, they feel the weight ...

An angler recently broke a Connecticut state fishing record after reeling in a freshwater fish that weighed almost 50 pounds. The Connecticut Fish and Wildlife Facebook page announced the massive ...

An angler from the UK caught a “proper lump” of a common carp on a recent trip to Hungary. Weighing 105.4 pounds, the obscenely fat carp stands to break a world record, according to the managers of ...

Today we're fishing for common carp at about 12:30pm. Normally I like to fish for carp in the mornings and evenings, afternoons... not so much - unless you have a chop. If you have a windy day, the ...

How do you feel about common carp? No doubt, they have their zealots in the U.S., some of whom chase them with fly rods, while others use bite alarms, boilies, and specialty rigs adopted from the ...

A Maryland angler on Saturday reeled a 49-pound common carp from Chesapeake Bay, shattering a record that had stood since 1978. Logan Kurhmann, 24, was targeting bass in the Susquehanna Flats area ...

A proposed change would add the use of grass carp and common carp as live bait, per conservation officials. A public comment period is slated for March. The Missouri Conservation Commission gave ...

The fishing season for Jordan Wein and Aaron Claus won't start for another month or so, but already they're predicting a much bigger haul than the 12,000 bronze-colored beauties they scored last year.

Once a simple food fish, koi have transformed into living jewels, with some fetching sky-high prices in the global luxury market. Here's how this happened. In the world of high-end pets, few creatures ...

A new sign advertises the installation of carp gates, also called carp barriers, that prevent carp from moving in and out of Lake Mattamuskeet. Boardwalks snake outward from the visitor center through ...

A virus that is new to Wisconsin waters and affects common carp and koi is likely to blame for two carp die-offs in Dodge County in recent days. Laura Stremick-Thompson, a fisheries biologist serving ...