Why… Los Angeles area River Carping? by Wayne Boon Thanks as always for taking a few minutes to read through this quick blog. A little background is probably in order to set the scene: After nearly 35 years in the big city, my wife, Rachel and I recently (3 years ago) upped sticks and moved to the country (beautiful East Texas country to be exact). We love Los Angeles and have many, many wonderful friends & memories there but we got to a place where we’d done all the hustle/bustle of big city life and started looking at writing a new chapter in our life’s book and thankfully, it’s been wo ..read more

Pioneering Highland Reservoirs by Jeff Kramer Highland reservoirs at first glance do not give off a positive image. When carp fishermen come to these waters, they find nothing but steep rock walls , sharply angled banks, and a lack of visible cover. Even seasoned anglers may find these large, deep mountain lakes intimidating. In the winter of 2023, Northern California was hit with major storms and floods. My fishing partner Gerrod Winkler and I had to come up with a “plan B” because our usual Delta river spots were blown out. It was January, so we had to split up to target new water because ..read more

Combat Carp Hate with Burritos by Dagur Árni Gudmundsson I’m sure most carp anglers in America have had to deal with their fair share of carp hating rhetoric. Most of it is ill informed, overblown, and ridiculous. None of it is very fun, which is why we fish, right? One of the first times I fished a favorite lake of mine, the head county ranger of the park when hearing I was fly fishing for carp told me to “just throw the damn things on the bank and let them rot!”. For a variety of reasons, that was a very interesting conversation, not least for the fact that I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to k ..read more

Big Waters, Big Fish By Brandon Curtis For me personally, nothing is more rewarding than catching fish out of a 2,300 acre reservoir with acres more surface water just waiting to be discovered... My surrounding area has a ton of water that will forever keep me looking for bigger and more beautiful carp. There are some reservoirs that I have not discovered yet that reach up to 4,000 acres… Plenty of exploring yet to do and that’s exciting! My name is Brandon Curtis, I have been an avid carp angler for just a little over 3 years now and I’m located in the Southern California area. The amount of ..read more

Chasing Autumn Gold by Bobby Oney Autumn, what a wonderful time of the year to be an angler! The leaves begin to change their colors, temperatures start to drop giving you the crisp cool mornings. The carp start into their fall routines, feeding more vigorously to sustain that winter weight. It’s a great time of the year to be out chasing them gold scales, and that’s exactly what I did over a span of a few weeks in October. My journey had taken me to some wonderful places, fished with family and friends, had my share of highs and lows, and of course a carp or two… My first leg of chasing gol ..read more

Fishing The Unknown by Gerrod Winkler The San Joaquin River has three major tributaries: The Merced, Tuolumne, and Stanislaus rivers. The Cosumnes (a tributary to Mokelumne River), Mokelumne, and Calaveras rivers also flow into the San Joaquin where the river joins the tidally influenced "Delta." This large body of water covers just over 1,150 square miles and nearly 73 percent of it is devoted to agriculture farm land. How do i fish a location like this? I guess the better question is, where do i even start? My name is Gerrod Winkler. Been hooked on carp fishing for about three years now. I ..read more

USA Carp Angling Intro - Part 6 by Wayne Boon Hello again, I hope your Summer Carp fishing is going well and that the fish have been cooperating for you! If like me here in East Texas, it’s been a bit too toasty to fish more than an early morning or late evening in your neck of the woods, Fall and the cooler temps are fast approaching… Lets get organized, get out there and do it!! ;) This will be the 6th blog designed to introduce and instruct anglers on the new age of Carp Angling… Having covered the virtues of PVA or Poly Vinyl Alcohol a couple of months back, this month I thought we’d take ..read more

USA Carp Angling Intro - Part 5 by Wayne Boon Here’s the 5th in this series of blogs designed to introduce and instruct anglers on the new age of Carp Angling… This month I’m covering my personal favorite method for fishing for carp. It’s the one I started with at the very beginning of my angling journey… It’s a very useful carp fishing technique that many of us are perhaps somewhat familiar with when fishing for other species. Fishing with a Float/Bobber can be one of the most thrilling techniques for catching carp. if you’ve float fished before for other species, I’ll be introducing quite ..read more

USA Carp Angling Intro - Part 3 by Wayne Boon Hello again and welcome to the 3rd article in this series designed to introduce and instruct anglers on the new age of Carp Angling… We’ve recently covered many of the basic concepts and techniques commonly employed to catch carp; this month, we’ll take a really good look at fish safety which is always uppermost on our minds when ever we are fishing, regardless of specie we’re chasing… There are two main aspects: Fish Safety while actually angling. Fish care & safety while the fish are in our possession; That is, while they’re out of the w ..read more

Pennsylvania PB's by Will Passaretti Hello, my name is Will Passaretti and I’m a carp angler from Pennsylvania. I feel extremely lucky because my state has many great opportunities for fishing whether it's fly fishing for trout, throwing lures for bass or targeting these bars of gold. I started targeting carp back in the fall of 2019 after I realized that the local pond I was fishing had some giant carp in it. I’ve been an angler as long as I can remember and have mainly targeted bass but after accidentally hooking a carp one day that Fall and feeling the sheer power, I realized Ian attempt to ..read more