spectr17
08-05-2006, 07:12 PM
I was up working near East Fork and a buddy said there were carp running up East Fork like salmon do. Yeah right I thought.
Naturally I had to see it to believe it. Sure nuff. This pic is from the bridge to the fire camp on East Fork Rd, looking north. The carp were 3-5 pound range with some bigger. There were holding behind the rocks and jams like trout do eating I guess. Red arrows point to the carp. 2 closest to the cam and several back by that log jam that were trying to get upstream to join their buddies. Looked like a salmon run almost. Never seen carp do that before in clear mountain runoff water. Anybody else ever see that?
Only problem shooting here is it's all rocks and you're gonna ding some points for sure. There are some pools further down toward the resevior that are more gravel and sand so that might be a better place to shoot. It's all NF land until you get down to the resevior which is County land. I don't think it's legal to spear them. Anybody know? The carp weren't too spooky cuz many people party in this area on the weekend. The only tough part was there isn't much cover to use to sneak up. Kind of like them bare canals near Niland.
http://www.jesseshunting.com/images/east_fork_carp_7_2006.jpg
Naturally I had to see it to believe it. Sure nuff. This pic is from the bridge to the fire camp on East Fork Rd, looking north. The carp were 3-5 pound range with some bigger. There were holding behind the rocks and jams like trout do eating I guess. Red arrows point to the carp. 2 closest to the cam and several back by that log jam that were trying to get upstream to join their buddies. Looked like a salmon run almost. Never seen carp do that before in clear mountain runoff water. Anybody else ever see that?
Only problem shooting here is it's all rocks and you're gonna ding some points for sure. There are some pools further down toward the resevior that are more gravel and sand so that might be a better place to shoot. It's all NF land until you get down to the resevior which is County land. I don't think it's legal to spear them. Anybody know? The carp weren't too spooky cuz many people party in this area on the weekend. The only tough part was there isn't much cover to use to sneak up. Kind of like them bare canals near Niland.
http://www.jesseshunting.com/images/east_fork_carp_7_2006.jpg