sping break

It has been a few weeks and I remembered that I had started a blog.  No readers so its just kind of something to do while "I drink and think" at the end of hte day.  The past few weeks have had me thinking about fishing for other species more often.  I like fishing for everything that swims.  I realized that I have never caught a carp in my life though.  I see them all the time while fishing for bass and pan fish, however I have never actually fished for them.  Needless to say I have spent a lot of time on the internet recently.  The past three days have been a carp hunt.  I knew that I was a little early for the species but decided to give it a go.  I have been to 5 different ponds/lakes in three days and have still not hooked my first carp.  Today I went to a pond that I know holds carp, I woluld see them when I would fish before work in the summers or on a lunch break.  I didn't see one carp, I did get board enough to do some extream dry fly rainbow stocker fishing and yes somehow enjoyed it.  I met a dude fishing salmon eggs for the trout and asked him if he had ever seen carp...he said no.  I guess you only see what you want or would want to eat.  I agree that there are some species that you would only eat in a survival situation and carp may be on that list.  I remember eating a northern pike in canada on survival training (3 days, 3 matches, a hatchet, 1 orange, and one potato yeah I know real random list but love those matches) but hey I was hungry and had a fish.  It wasn't all that bad to tell you the truth.  Back to the fishing, I decided to move to another place that might be warmer and along the way stopped in to ask a real carp pro some advice.  I always feel a bit shallow when I ask for knowledge and I also wounder if it should be learned and not taken from another.  I will always wounder how the pro feels when confronted with the amateur searching for advice.  Is the attitude: here we go again, why don't you hire me as a guide and pay me, ask me more so I can share my knowledge, please go away now?  I may never know the answer to that one.  I fished where I had planned to during the afternoon and didn't get a fish on the first res, but did get some smaller bass and pan fish from the second.  I passed some guys who said the only fish they had taken was a carp.  I asked on what and they told me a night crawler about 30yards out.  I don't know anything about the depth of the res so I can only imagine that it is a very flat and shallow area on the east side.  In the smaller pond/lake I saw my first two carp chilling together in the shallows.  I poked my head and rod through the winter trees and attempted to bow-and-arrow a fly, they saw me...fuck!  I had no real shot at them and they weren't feeding to my understanding so no worries.  Today I questioned my excitement with going after carp, then realized what is there to question. The carp chase may take over my life, I hope my lady Trista will understand.