CarpQuest – S2E1 – 2013 – Carp Fishing a Year in Review

2013 was a an amazing year for CarpQuest. Early in the season I found my old Sony Camcorder and started the video blogs. We fished new venues, met new friends and banked some stunning carp together.

We fished at Quail Lake, Prospect Lake, Runyon Lake, Pikeview Reservoir, Willow Springs Ponds, Chatfield Reservoir, Pueblo Reservoir, Valco Ponds, Boyd Lake, Brush Hollow Reservoir and Bear Lake, UT.

Beautiful scenery and wildlife were observed, including ducks, geese, muskrat, snakes, herons and more varieties of birds I simply cannot name.

We fished in temperatures below freezing and over 100F.

We endured the baking sun, snow, and sometimes rain. Winds strong enough to blow us almost off our feet and slippery mud slopes.

Once we trekked through miles of wilderness to reach a secret spot – on the hike back from which I ended up tearing my shoulder and missed almost a month of fishing whilst waiting for it to recover! (the things we do for CarpQuest!)

We drove up mountains, down trails, and once got so lost we ended doing some insane off-roading in the family SUV – mistakenly I would add and not something i’d recommend!

We caught common carp, mirror carp, rainbow trout, a channel catfish, crayfish and untold, and sometimes unrecognizable, debris!

We had line cut off’s, more hook pulls that I care to remember. We fell into the water, we dove into the water to prevent a fish escaping and even snapped the top section of one rod clean in half whilst playing a fish.

My old Sony Handycam finally died at the end of year and has now been replaced with a Canon HD camcorder. In total we went fishing 52 times, had the lines out for about 266 hours and caught exactly, 100 carp (log books are a wonderful thing!)

It was the year of “CarpZilla”, my new PB common carp at 37 lb and 5 oz.

It was a year to be remembered.

Here were the highlights.

Tight Lines,
John
CarpQuest