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This good size mirror is one of 13 carp landed in the last
two days. The warm rain and above normal temperatures
got the carp active and feeding again. |
Nothing like a warm rain in December to perk up the carp fishing here in RI. Yup, it's happened again. Prior to yesterday, it was a pick with a fish here and a fish there with no sure bets. Temperatures were on a downhill slide and so was the fishing. It all changed for me yesterday evening as a warm rain enveloped the area. That rain event, combined with way above normal temperatures last night, got the carp feeding. Yesterday evening I landed 4 carp in a bit over an hour. Today I added 9 more fish as they were really hitting in the warming waters. All the action in the last two days have come on hair rigged sweetcorn, a bait I feel is your best bet at this time of year.
Realize the fish are still sluggish. Most of the hits were just taps rather than screaming runs. The fight, too, was sluggish as these fish, which ranged from 6 to 10 lbs.. could barely pull any drag. These are not the same active fish of a couple of months ago, but this is December and I am still catching carp. I'll take it!
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