Don’t kn0w what it is, but if dogwoods are blooming you can bet the carp are in full gear.  Boy, are they!?!?!  I cut out a couple hours early from the office yesterday (once again on a Thursday, definitely is my ‘rec’ day) and headed up to the lake.  Water levels have come down a little since last Thursday, but there was still plenty of water to fish in.  I started getting into fish as soon as my waders were knee deep and I was in the fish until I left a couple of hours later.

I actually passed on a lot of smaller carp today, hoping to shoot some commons pushing towards that 10 lb. mark (and maybe if I could get lucky a 14 lber. - my goal for the year).  Didn’t quite reach the decade mark, but shot a few that were in the 8 lb. range, certainly much better than average carp for the lake I was fishing.  I got into a few bowfin, but they were small males - no citation sized bowfin to be found.  I think the females must have dumped their eggs and headed back out to safer waters.

I ended the day with 24 common carp.  I think I had 3 pull off in the first 15 minutes, but none after that.  Guess I was just getting dialed in.  I’ll leave you with my favorite shot of the day.

A carp and his buddy were sucking something off the water surface, lips exposed, and when he lowered his lips to get a drink of water, I cut loose from about 12 yards away.  Assassination shot!

I cannot wait until tomorrow…weather permitting, Andrew and I will be fishing the day away on a trolling motor only impoundment…rarely gets bowfished and has some great grass carp action, tons of common carp of course, a few bowfin and even some good-sized needlenoses!  Check back after the weekend to see if we pull off the North Carolina Grand Slam of Bowfishing!