We are spending an entire year catching carp on increasing more difficult baits.
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Sweet Corn
Probably the most used carp bait these days. a quick easy start to the ladder
Bret B is first on the board. Caught at a pond in Carrolton, TX.
Dave S is on the board! A chunky carp on the float from a pond in Austin,TX.
Denise B is on the board, from a pond in Carrolton, TX
Justin W with a smallmouth buffalo from Grapevine, TX on sweet corn
Justin W with a *nice* smallmouth buffalo on sweet corn
Gary H gets on the board with a corn carp: “Slow morning but a good time nonetheless.”
Homemade Dough Ball
Before sweet corn took over, this was the way to go. there are hundreds of recipes out there, pick your favorite and catch a carp like its 1972
Accidental catch of a bluegill on the dough bait by Bret B
Bret B with a catch on dough bait (wheaties and big red soda)
Denise B reaches rung 2 with a small scrappy carp on the dough ball from TX
Dave S with a channel catfish in the dough ball
Dave S officially on rung 2 with a healthy carp.
Gary H with a channel catfish on dough ball
Gary H with another channel catfish on dough ball.
Gary makes rung 2 with a dough ball carp
Bread
Simple, smart and productive.
Bret B makes rung 3 with a micro carp from TX
Dave S with a black bullhead on bread
Dave S with a fat black bullhead on bread
Dave S makes rung 3 with a very nice common carp (the largest of the contest to date) and a channel catfish at the same time just for fun.
Gary H makes rung 3 (bread) with a chunky carp.
Chickpea
“Natures Boilies”. We’re going unflavored on this one, soak em yourself, or buy a can. they should be possible as a hook bait, but will certainly do well on a hair.
Another small carp on the ladder fro Bret B. the chickpea does the job in Carrolton, TX
Dave makes rung 4 with a nice sized carp on Garbanzo bean.
Hominy
Kinda like corn, it *was* corn, so should be an easy one
Bret B with a small carp on Hominy from Carrolton, TX
Dave caught a black bullhead on Hominy
Dave with another black bullhead on hominy
Dave S with a nice common on hominy
Cheese
Cheddar, swiss, that stuff in the back of that one drawer you bought for a specific recipe, but haven’t thrown out yet. Catfish will be problematic here, but we will get past this rung.
Bret B with a black bullhead on cheese
Bret B with the smallest channel catfish ever on cheese
Bret B with a channel catfish on cheese
Bret B with a better channel catfish on cheese
Bret B with yet another black bullhead on cheese
Bret B with a small Channel Catfish on cheese
Bret B with a longear Sunfish on Cheese
Bret B with another Longear Sunfish on Cheese
Bret B With another Channel Catfish on cheese
Another channel catfish on cheese for Bret
Finally. Bret passed the cheese rung with hard parmesan on the hair rig
Dave starts the cheese rung with a channel catfish
French Fry
even curly ones. It needs to be on this list, let’s see em
Bret stops by the drive through on the way to the pond and passes the drench fry rung
Corn Nut
Corn nut chip. You know you buy em at truck stops sometimes. They used to be so hard they would crack teeth. Will a carp eat one? Probably. Let’s find out as a group. This is the 1st bait on the ladder that will probably require a hair rig. Try not to eat em all while fishing.
Bret B caught a common carp on the surface on a corn nut (they float)
Raisin
Regular or golden. lets see em.
Bret picked the raisins out of this bag of trail mix for a common carp
Cherry Tomato
Cherry tomato, grape tomato, whole or sliced (whole is funnier)
1/2 a cherry tomato was picked up by this common carp. – Bret
Red Twizzler
Try not to eat em all before you catch
Tastiest bait ever. Bret catches on Red Twizzlers
Potato
in any format. I think canned new potatoes ir teeny potatoes in the hair rig would be amusing.
Bret lands a carp on potato.
Hot Dog
Hot Dog, Vienna Sausage, little smokey sausages. Anything along those lines. More catfish, but we will endure
We warned about catfish, but didn’t think about turtles. bret finally gets a carp after several turtles/
Swedish Fish
Swedish fish or any other gummy candy.
Carp eat Swedish fish. Bret passes the rung.
Pineapple Chunk
simply a chunk of pineapple, fresh, canned, or even dried.
Dog Food Kibble
Easy one, I’m betting.
Black Twizzlers
we did the red, now we do the black
Cheerios
Or fruit loops, this one should be funny
Baby Corn
Straight from your Chinese food takeout
Takis
or other chip snack
Jellybean
any flavor you want….. someone try that weird buttered popcorn
Slim Jim
Or any other meat stick think. The podcast promises to yell ‘snap into a slimjim’ when someone reaches this rung
Edamame
In husk or out, whichever looks funnier
Grape
We did raisin, lets do a grape too