Anybody got or know of a good place to do some carp fishing? Coming from the Charleston area.
The rice fields in the cooper is a good spot, but real shallow on low tide…
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Bank or Boat? I know some folks that carp fish L. Moultrie and the Diversion Canal, but usually bait with corn a day ahead of time. There are some super big grass carp there and they are fun to catch, but you have to turn’m loose and can only keep the common carp.
From the bank. I don’t want to keep anything, just catch and release. Nothing like set the hook on a 30lb common carp and watching/feeling it run.
Try the lake(s) at Seaside Farms the shopping center in MT P ( the one with Target, Massage Envy) Lots of people seem to catch them in man made lakes in Apartment complexes, never done that myself.
- Adam
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Originally posted by UGABradNFrom the bank. I don’t want to keep anything, just catch and release. Nothing like set the hook on a 30lb common carp and watching/feeling it run.
Y’all correct me, but I don’t believe we have anything even close to 30lb on a common carp/suck fish. Some big grass carp out there.
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i’ve seen the grass carp in a lot of different shades, maybe people are getting confused ?
- Adam
Oh I know the difference. Common carp seem to be more yellow with larger scales (most of the time) and have wiskers. Grass carp tend to have smaller scales with no wiskers and their eyes tend to be a little lower. Grass carp die much faster and a lot easier. Maybe they get stressed more easily?? I try to get those guys unhooked and back in the water within a minute or two. I’m sure there’s some 30lb+ common in there.
On a side note…for me the best catfish bait in actually a small common carp cut up into chunks.
Common carp in SC don’t get as big as they do up north. The bowfishing record is only in the 20-30lb range. Even the pigs at that Myrtle beach lake near the aquarium don’t quite tip 30lbs. Easy way to tell the difference between common and grass; Common carp have a dorsal fin all the way down their back, where grass carp have a short triangle shaped dorsal. You can also go by the mouths; Common - fleshy sucker like lips with a little whisker in each corner, while the grass have hard lips kind of like grampa without his dentures in.
I caught a common in Lake Murray on a spoon while Striper fishing, and he was 25 lbs if he was an ounce. I wish I had the pics still, but that was two dead smart phones ago.
SC state common carp record is 58 lbs. shot on lake murray in 2000.
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little late to this thread, but common carp do get to 30lbs here in south carolina. infact, lake murray has some of the biggest common carp in the south east. 58lbs is the record by bow, and i know several people that have killed them in the 50lb range. personally my biggest is 38 but have killed dozens and dozens over 30lbs.
lakes marion and moultrie tend to have smaller carp than the cooper river or lake murray. carp in the lake tend to be 15-18lb average but during the spawn 30-35 pounders are common.
the cooper has alot of carp… ive seen them up to 40lbs from there.
lake murray has fewer carp, but it has some pigs. just last week a friend of mine shot a 40 and a 45 in the same night. during the spawn those fish would have been pushing 50-55lbs.
alot of folks dont know the difference in grass carp and common carp, grassys get huge. ive seen them up to 90lbs in the cooper…
here is a pic i had handy of a 34ish from the cooper.
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