Thanks Dftiz! Can't wait till Sunday

Go to this event! Ask lots of questions and learn from Finley. You will get an education that would take you a decade to get on your own.

What time you getting started?

The event starts at 8AM and will go 'till 5PM.

How’s it going ?

I saw lots of fish caught while I was there. Mostly Buffalo 8-14lb, heard a nice carp was caught as well. TXMS was passing off his fish to anyone interested, heard some PB's were broken and he was also teaching those that wanted to learn.

Sounds like a great time!

If I was not out on a blue cat trip today I would have joined you guys! Sounds like you did better than I did.

Love a good buff or carp. Hard fighting fish.

Thanks to everyone for coming out, I hope you all had a blast! Looking forward to seeing all of you continue and catch some Carp and Buffalo on your own.

Here are the results from the fish-in, we hauled and released quite a few smaller fish without photos. I don't remember the weights of them all, our biggest Smallmouth Buffalo was 18lbs and the biggest Carp was a chunk at 15lb 12oz.

Can't wait 'til the next event!

Nice pics.

That next to last one, that buff, is it the camera or does it have a blue stain on it?

Love that unique scale pattern on Hot Pizza's buff!

The blue is something similar to this: Carp Care

TXMulti-Species showed me the full Carp Spa Treatment in person last year during a meet and greet. Comfy beds, Anti-Septic, and massage techniques (actually not massage, but how to properly hold a carp for pics) are all part of the treatment.

It shows a great level of respect for the species to ensure someone else has the opportunity to catch the fish again in good health.

Thanks guys! Dan, Brine is 100% correct, that blue spot is an antiseptic we use if the fish is bleeding or damaged to help it heal. That particular fish had recently lost some scales (either during the fight or sometime before) so I sprayed him up to help the healing process. Most times we use it if they're bleeding from the hook wound - but with small hooks that isn't often an issue.


Yep that was a super cool one!