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Story 2007 Brace of Snow Carp

A brace of snow carp

When	December 9th, 2007
Where	Charles river, Boston
Who	By myself, then with Domm Mariano

The story

After a few weeks of biz trips (side note to travelers, visit Sydney, this is a gorgeous city!), I was just so happy to be able to fish again that I decided to go today, on a sub-freezing-point day...

First, it was a bust. At the spot I had pre-baited yesterday evening, most of the bait I had thrown in the water was still there (Aquavu tells you everything!). I actually wanted to record a new video today, but well, the main cast of characters were suspiciously missing, except for this very stunned carp which roamed close to shore, but wasn't eating anything.

Sub-freezing point proof... Not too sure my sweet corn had much attractive power!

So I moved to another local spot, with a water discharge which is sometimes warm, sometimes not... Didn't go there much this year. After an hour, I started to have a few taps on one of my rods. But a run came on the other one, and here I was playing my first December fish of the year.

Yeah, well, except that my first rod gave me another run 30 seconds later. You have to be kidding me, a double run in MA in December? Can't say I did it very elegantly, but both fish were landed, and here is a brace of snow carp!

This was in the city, we actually have a few inches of snow in the suburbs, and I know that our largest river is partly frozen by now. I didn't take a water temp measurement, but my guess is 36 to 38 degrees...

I caught two more carp, including a nice low teen afterwards before the cold convinced me to come home. No monster, this is for sure, but hey, four fish in a few hours on such a cold day, this made my day.

One week later...

I received a phone call from Domm out of the blue, and a few hours later, here we were trying to catch a snow carp again... And this time, we had a good foot of snow!