Pulled off a two day trip with the Mrs to lake mineral wells, the weather was great and the fishing was good as well. Took me a little while to figure out exactly what they wanted but once i did their appetite was easy to please, scopex boilies and maize lots and lots of maize. Enjoy the pics.

Nice fish! Beautiful swim as well!

Nice fish. How big were the largest?

Looks like a great trip to a beautiful venue! Thanks for sharing your pictures!

Awesome, you have come along way in a short time! Not sure anyone else has fished that lake way to pioneer!

nice fish!

Awesome!

awesome those fish look good

Good stuff Josh! Where was that swim, or which site anyways lol i would like to fish that lake again in the future! Great looking fish from an awesome looking swim!

Ok gotta call Josh out on something that's been bothering me. Eeveryone notice the hand near the anal fin in his pics? The way he's holding the fish his finger can never slip into the bunghole on accident, or like Donny on purpose! He's missing a rite of passage in carping! Sexy venue and some nice healthy looking fish in good numbers. That's Carp brigade pioneering right there.

I thought that view looked familiar:

http://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubbt...e_P#Post1012217

Thanks for the replys everyone, the trip was a lot of fun, at first it was very slow but once i got them chummed in i was getting a run every 15 mins or so. Smile n nod i dont have a scale so i took length and girth measurements and calculated the weight of the biggest to be 13.8 lbs. Jeff the campsite number was 28 and we were extremely lucky to get it, by noon ALL the campsites were full. SSF i was wondering how long it was going to take before someone called me out on how i hold my fish, but your exactly right my fear is my finger slipping in somewhere its not supposed to go, lol.

nice carp trip josh . that is a great little park (if its the state park you went to ) the hiking trail is so cool too where people rock climb . even tho i didnt fish for carp back then thanks for bringing back memories for me .

man way to go josh! looks like you two had a great time!!! you've definitely come a long way since you first started to post here and asked questions on how to carp fish!

Slide it on in, everyone does it

I may need to start plugging the hole up, seems every time i get a fat one they poo method mix all over my hand....

well, go green and...recycle?!?!

Nice looking fish.


Some of those fish have *massive* barbels.

Thats the very best way to find out what they are feeding on.

Very nice haul man!!!

Did my link bring back any old memories?

True. I don't think I've ever seen 'em that long on a non-koi.

Great fish Josh!

So that idea of mine to dump 100lbs of corn with 20pounds of boilies BEFORE a week fishing was not so bad afterall...

I thought the same thing about the barbels when i saw them, pretty much every fish had barbels like that, must be something in thiers genes in that lake.

Leo i actually got the massive pre-bait technique from a Korda video, i put out a lot of bait with no lines in the water to get the fish feeding comfortably with out being spooked. Then i casted out my rods as the sun went down and it worked, they were in a competitive feeding mode that let their guard down and were more easily hooked.

barbels is spelled barbules

I am not trying to be a spelling tart. Believe me when I say that I have my own spelling issues. Its just that I went a loooong time not knowing that this is how it is spelled and I was very surprised to learn it. I thought y'all might like to know too.