Anyone see the lake Mendocino carp this last week?

I have been having a ball catching big carp until this last week. they seem to have moved from the usual spots. Has anyone seen them this week?

I saw them over on the flats south of long point.
I tried catching them last year to no success. I used hominy and also homemade dough balls. How do you do it?

We saw them in the shallows just south of Vinegar Point two weeks ago. Some absolute submarines in there, mixed with what appear to be a few pretty big koi.

I'm also interested in how to catch them. We tried sandwhich bread and pizza crust with no luck....lol.

Strictly C&R. Shoot me a PM if you don't want to tell the world.

Tell you what, sometime next week after the holiday is done i will take you all carp fishing  and show you how to do it.
First requirement is to swear on the stack of bibles that i will bring that you will tell no one else or your first born will be sacraficed. 

Canned whole kernle corn.

Del Monte.

canned corn is great but not allowed anywhere there are trout.  I think I remember that.  I bet your PM'ed answer will have the word "molasses"in it. 

I would love to fish for huge carp in Lake Mendo.  I would ONLY be C&R as well.  (why would anyone kill one?) 

Canned whole kernle corn.

Del Monte.

Already planning on bringing that...along with some grape Kool-Aid packets.

Keep your secrets, I'm taking my bow.

You guys almost have it...not quite. The only problem you have when you do it right is keeping all those big channel cats of your line so the carp have a chance to get the bait. 

I would love to fish for huge carp in Lake Mendo.  I would ONLY be C&R as well.  (why would anyone kill one?) 

The Russians love 'em - I've heard they grind them up to make some sort of fish cakes or something. They're eaten in a lot of other countries, too.

Keep your secrets, I'm taking my bow.

   When I was a kid, I used to shoot them with my bb gun - sometimes they would run thick in the sloughs & irrigation ditches in the central valley.

crawdads!!

crawdads!!

Nope, i tried that before i figured it out. The Russian make gafilte (sp) fish out of them. Its a jewish dish and not bad. Carp are good smoked and ok fired once the skin and dark meat is removed. But the bones are everywhere and are not worth the work.
A boneless filet of rockfish puts carp in a much much lower class of fish for eating. The mexican people use carp in a fish stew, but they also eat suckers and squawfish. All these fish are not bad eating but loaded with bones.

I had a piece of carp sashimi in Japan once.  Don't even ask... too nasty.  And probably full of parasites.  When it was slow cooked for hours with sweet soy sauce, then it got a bit better.  A little like fish jerky.  I have had it once in a Chinese restaurant and it was pretty rough going down.  I think I have given carp a chance on the table and it really does not do well on the table.  C&R is the way.  Catch and Restaurant. 

I would ONLY be C&R as well.  (why would anyone kill one?) 

Got me but people kill the heck out of them, bow hunters have been out there all month.

As far as eating goes carp can be tasty, but that varies by species.  The carp that is most frequently eaten in asaian cuisine are grass carp, not the common carp in Mendo.  Grass carp are significantly better table fare.  They would be fun to hook though, there are some fatties in there.

Is that what happened to the carp in the coves accross the lake? If anyone can get out tommorrow tues, i am going to see if i can find them around long point and the south flats.