Well, the Carp have been slow, but some nice fish have been caught. yesterday BaitBoat Charllie caught a 62# Buff. Scott caught a 41 and 36 Buff. Keith Melrose caught a 35#10oz Buff. Neil established a PB Grasser with his first ever- 17#. This morning I woke up to a new PB Grassie-36#8oz and at the same time Scott had a 27#5oz Buff. No Carp yet, but good-sized fish when we get 'em.

Chad

What is the popular hook/hair bait?

mostly maize- me & charlie. scott has had luck with tigers.

chad

congrats on the new pb grasser. I blanked this morning @ WR

No more Carp/Buffs. Scott just caught a 2# Kitty. This wind is nasty.

I'm gonna take a nap in my new tentcot(too cool)

Chad

Terry "telfish" caught the first(only so far) Carp- A 20#3oz beauty.

Everybody has left-I'm going to be solo tonight. I hope my toes don't freeze off!

Chad

Congrats guys! Wish I could have been there to see in the new year with you all. Best of luck to everyone!

I've landed 2 fish in '08 and they each were a new PB.

Chad

Whats the second?

Chad, that is awesome. Hopefully, they're still around next week!

I've landed 3 fish in '08 and each of them is a new PB.

After I made the post about the 2, one of my alarms went off and I caught the third PB.

(2 of them, while significant as PB's, are of peripheral species- Incidental like the Bass I got last time.)

Chad

We know about the grasser, Chad, but what is the other one?

looks like chad has the same phone as me with the double post

I don't know what you're talking about...lol

I'm going with catfish, then. I'm bored, so my guess is a 20+ lb blue and a 15 lb channel.

The second PB happened like this:

Everyone else had left so I was getting ready for the cold that I'm going to have to deal with tonight. While I was moving around doing all this stuff, I felt the urge to go to the bathroom. This was not a "bring in the lines and mosey up to the head" urge, this was a "stop wh%t you're doin' 'cause I'm about toruin the image and the style that you're used to" urge.

I grabbed my remotes, hoppped in the truck, and motored up to the junior restroom by the water supply stuff. As I walked briskly into the potty, I had my alarms and phone in my hand and went to set the down, but suddenly one of the alrms sounded! I said aloud, "OH HAYELLLL NO!!".

Nothing was gonna turn this train around.

I continued on with my business; rushing...but not rushing-You know the drill. While I was in the final phase of the operation, the alarm sounded again!! I finished and got the truck and raced back to the campsite.

One of my lines was slack and it was time to rebait, so I began to pull the lines in from that pod. While pulling the third one in, it felt like a fish was on and buried in the weeds. I was pretty excited. When I pulled the fish through the weeds to the near flat, the fish surfaced.!.!.!

It was a Gizzard Shad!! 1#2oz of Pure New PB!! lol

Third was a Blue Cat- 4#4oz.

Hopefully I'll have nore to do later than give the Starless Treatment to a shad capture...

Chad

he he-not bad...I would have preferred these...lol

chad

I thought about shad. I caught my pb shad (1.5 lbs) on Town on a tiger nut.

any pics?

stay warm man, it gonna get COLD tonight

I just caught and released a 28#10oz Grasser. When I was straightening up afterward, I noticed that my weigh Sling had frozen over. YIKES!!!

Chad

No pics yet. I'm posting from my phone. The only pic we took with the phone was too dark.

Chad

Finally landed a Carp!! About an hour ago my alarm woke me to a 23#10oz Common. When I went to grab my net, it wouldnmt move. I thought it was stuck, but it had frozen to the ground after that last Grasser.

Chad

Another Common-15#2oz.

Wow congratz dude on all your success. Sounds like alot of nice fish and a nice trip.
Thats crazy the net froze to the ground lol!

Just got woken up by another Common(about 13-14#)...Where were these guys yesterday?

I'm about to pack up. It's been fun.

Chad

You are more of a man than I could ever hope to be for braving that cold to fish!

Congrats on the catches and PB's!!

Chad,

Did you stay warm in the tent cot?

Seriously... Why am I catching all the Commons today? While packing up, I just had a 15#12oz. After seeing only 1 Carp yesterday, I now have 4 in the last 5 hours.

Chad

Yep. I had a sleeping bag on the cot and another I used as my blanket. The moisture inside the tentcot made the walls wet. When the temp dropped, that turned into a thin,solid sheet of ice. It was surreal.

Chad

Maybe the buffs had their fill and moved on, so the wimpy little carp moved in to feed on scraps.

Yep. I had a sleeping bag on the cot and another I used as my blanket. The moisture inside the tentcot made the walls wet. When the temp dropped, that turned into a thin,solid sheet of ice. It was surreal.

Chad

To my knowledge, Terry Fishlock was the first CAG member in Texas participating in the FFF to catch a carp on the 1st.

At 3:30 pm, he landed this beautiful perfect 20 lb. 3 oz common.

Well done Terry!

Sounds like sleeping in a deep freeze! Congrats on pulling some out.

When I fish at Emma in the winter I like to run my two electric heaters and break out the dvd players. Nothing like catching fish, staying warm and watching movies lol. Congrats on all the fish caught.

How do you power your electric heaters?

The utility sites have electricity...

Where are the utility site? Maybe I was in a utility site and I didn't know it. Is 4, 5, & 6 a utility area?

U 1-11 I think. Maybe up to 14. I don't remember. The electricity is on the posts by where you park your car. I didn't realize it the first time or two that I went, until Donny charged his phone after texting all day.

Yeah! Donny texts a whole bunch doesn't he. lol

I don't think I would ever want to thumb wrestle Donny. lol!

I guess it's hard for him to keep up with all 3 girlfriends.

3gfs man!!!

Chad,

Which tentcot are you using? I've not had any moisture buildup in mine as of yet.

With / without rainfly?

I've slept in mine as low as 25 degrees so far, and no moisture issues.

Also, this is your friend:

http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores...0003000_350-3-4

it deflated and stays in the tentcot when folded.

Awesome! I shoulda looked for one of those today.

I need to get a tentcot, but there are other priorities at the moment...

I believe we're up to 3 as a group now.

Jason's standard tan, my oversize and whatever Chad has.

they're not perfect, but they have their place.

Eh, well, I'll just have to use the old tent for now. Or I'll just sleep under the stars. The one thing that I stocked up on when I still worked at Cabela's was UA cold gear and other clothes to keep me warm and toasty.

If you do that, buy one of those mountain sleeping bags rated for -30 degrees hehe, then you can sleep under the stars perfectly comfortable and make fun of all the people freezing in their tents. Lol.

This method works great in the rain/sleet

Yeah but aren't those bags $500 and don't they take several minutes to get out of? I like the idea of electric blankets. lol

I have a decent sleeping bad that I "borrowed" from my dad. When it's cold, I add a blanket or two on top, and I'm perfectly happy.

I DO NOT need a sleeping bag that takes minutes to get out of. I'm clumsy enough to struggle out of the one I currently have. When it's raining or sleeting, I'll break out the tent.

If I can park my truck close enough to hear my alarms, I can fit my matress pad in the back and can leave the hatch cracked, and it gets toasty in there when it's cold outside.

Electric blankets...

Mine didn't cost any more then maybe $50. And I got out of it with no problem when it was 14 degrees outside and alarms we going off..

And Bret was yelling for his shoes, lmao.

Jason, it was a reference to last Feb's trip out to Emma...it was 14 degrees, I was in one of those sleeping bags, under the stars, warm and toasty...and everyone else that had a tent was complaining of the cold...

So I had to keep rubbing it in hehehe.

That was also when Bret had a fish at first light, and ran out of his tent...without his shoes.

I was fine in the tent in my sleeping bag.

I was hoping it would start sleeting on your sleepingbagged self.

I believe you now own a tent, and I've seen you eyeing my tentcot.