I have caught lots of different freshwater and saltwater fish. I have yet to catch a carp. Any information on bait, water type, gear, technique would be greatly appreciated.

where is seedtick?

can of corn a Carolina rig, with a small size 6 hook string the corn on the hook 3 kernels...a loose drag, they have soft mouths...and any local creek, lake or river

Thanks. Seedtick is in SW Nacogdoches County. Very rural. There is a large creek that runs out of Lake Nacogdoches on my place. It is dry except for the deep holes. Would that be a good place to start? I know the creek has bass, perch, and bowfin.

If your creek's holes have fish in them, I'd say there are likely a fish carp in there as well. Give it a shot!

is the creek named caney ? if not it should hold carp

sorry GG

do yall limit your selves to one hook on the line or do yall use multiple????

Generally, one single hook per line (no trebles).

The reason is that if you have two hooks on the line and your main line breaks when you are fighting a fish, the second hook could get snagged, causing the fish to be tethered in place and die a long, slow death of starvation.

Trebles can pin a carp's mouth shut, so we don't use them, either.

Can you give me an example of how big a #6 hook is? I am a bass fisherman and the smallest hooks i have are 1/0 owners.

A #6 hook would probably fit on a dime.

My gosh that is small. Is it a very thin wire hook also? How do you keep it from straighting out? Have you ever used a circle hook?

I use #6 circle hooks all the time. There are some very sturdy ones available at Cabela's (made by Gamakatsu, I think) that I have used to catch several fish over 20 pounds.

Avoid the thin Aberdeen, or crappie, hooks. You'll need to look specifically for sturdy, well made #6 hooks. If you can't find that size, #4 or #2 can be used (heck, some paylake carp fishing used 1/0 hooks as a matter of course, so use whatever you have).

Like my orignal post said, i have never caught carp, thanks for the information..One last thing. Do you suggest a spinning or a bait casting rig. I have both but I want the best fight and challange as possible.

ROFL!!! Good one Jesse!

Use whichever you want.

The cool thing about carp fishing is that, though you can spend lots of money on nifty, carp-specific tackle and gear, all you really need is a rod and reel like you'd use for bass. The carp gear can help you cast further and catch a few more fish at any distance from shore, but it's not required to have a great time catching carp. If you have a 6'6" or 7' bass rod with 8- to 20-pound test line (or higher, if it's braid), you have all the tackle you need. Make a C-rig (or slip-sinker rig), tie on a size-6 (or -8, -4, -2, 1/0, whatever) hook (or circle hook), use sweet corn for bait and chum, cast out your rod and put it in a holder, and you're set.