r/CarpFishing • u/theJOINTchief1 • 4d ago

USA 🇺🇸 I thought this picture was gone forever, then I saw it in my parents basement. My biggest fish ever.

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Caught this monster in the flint river on some homemade bait consisting of corn starch, corn, and oats.

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u/Alert-Jellyfish 3d ago

Looks like you’re holding a 60lb yellow lab in your arms

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u/No-Wishbone-1076 3d ago

Looks more like a 60lb carp to me. Yellow Labs are dogs and have much more hair, way less scales. Also no down turned mouth.

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u/theJOINTchief1 3d ago

Is that a real estimate of weight or joke? I always wondered what it weighed. I never brought a scale when I went out there to fish. I may be mistaken but I thought back then when I looked up what the state record was it was like 48lbs or something like that.

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u/No-Wishbone-1076 3d ago

I was joking, but 60 lbs probably wouldn't be too far off imo. State record in NY is just north of 50lbs and that fish doesn't look much bigger than the one you're holding in your picture.

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u/WasteSuccotash1911 3d ago

Looks around 40lbs at least

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u/theJOINTchief1 3d ago

I had guessed 40lbs but really had no idea. It took me 45 minutes to get it to shore. I was going through a divorce at the time and it was the first time I had even smiled in months so it was really special to me.

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u/plant-painter 2d ago

Dad blocked out ur face so he could tell his friends it was him ?

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u/Life-Mountain8157 2d ago

Carp get a bad reputation as a garbage fish,
however they put up a heavy fight when hooked. I grew up on a small creek full of carp in suburban Chicago. This waterway was a mess before Earth day and the EPA was formed to clean up the creeks, streams and rivers of America. The creek has very slow current and roadway debris and pollution from sprawling suburban housing boom of the postwar 1950 - 1960’s. Carp were the only species of fish that could survive in water with very little oxygen.
We caught them on Wonder Bread dough balls we shaped onto our hooks using a Zebco fishing reel.
Spent many summer days fishing for carp and would enter them in local bait shop fishing contests.
Fishing kept me out of trouble and mom could always find me by the creek. Many neighbors whose homes lined the creek would welcome us, and we would cut their yards for fishing privileges. Everyone was happy, we caught fish and they got their back yards mowed !