CarpQuest Blog – Quality time with a friend and CC Moore & Co Ltd bait testing Fishing for me is about spending quality time with friends and family. My neighbor, Roland, has had a rough year getting over shoulder surgery. With his recovery almost complete it was time to once again take him out with me …
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In this episode of CarpQuest we take a family picnic down south to a lake near Pueblo. This was our first visit to this venue and I was unsure if the rumors of grass carp in these waters would prove true. About a decade or so ago the lake had been stocked with grassers to …
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from my article on Big Carp News No, not the Iron Maiden song; rather my first experiences of night fishing for carp. This has been a crazy year for weather in Colorado. First with the never ending freezing winter followed by boiling hot days, cold nights and record rainfall, dust storms and electrical storms, high wind; …
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from my article on FishExplorer.COM I was out fishing yesterday morning, had not been at the lake long, when I could hear thunder in the distance. A few minutes later a flash of lightning lit up the sky, no rain had fallen at my location yet. I was fishing with my usual long 13 ft rods. …
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from my article on FishExplorer.COM Between the Planets In the 1951 book, “Between Planets”, by Robert A. Heinlein, the phrase, “Pay it Forward’s” was popularized. Sixty years later I try to live by this philosophy in my fishing endeavors. When I first returned to fishing, a few years ago, there were many who gave to me …
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It has been many months since I was able to get a session in on the bank with Chris (C-DOG). Our last trip together, to Pueblo Reservoir, had ended with a spectacular dust storm, 50 mph winds and the destruction of my new HD camcorder from dust in the internal mechanism’s. Tumbleweeds were flying through …
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CarpQuest Blog – Take a Kid Carping – 2014 June is TAKC “Take a Kid Carping” month for the Carp Anglers Group. To honor of this event, I had the privilege to take Casey, Brittany and their 4 yr old son, Brayden, out carp fishing for their first time. Casey had written to me earlier …
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from my article on FishExplorer.COM You just never know who you may bump into on the bank side. I headed up to Chatfield Reservoir on Wednesday, 5/27/14, the first long distance run for my new (1999 4-runner), the “carp mobile”. I was planning to meet up with a young lad from the Carp Anglers Group. He …
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