Inner City Carp

[snagking]

Hey guys.
This is going to sound pretty weird, but hey, why not :D
Lately my friend and I have done a couple fishing trips in Bulimba Creek on foot. In Carindale part of bulimba creek (where we've been fishing for mullet/bream) we've had some success, but we were really interested in the freshwater lake at minnippi parklands. When we wen't there the first time we only had bread for bait :'(, so all we caught were some turtles:-X but we saw heaps of carp close to the shore that were approx 25cm in size, so naturally ( as we have never caught a carp before) we tried to catch them. They wouldn't eat bread. weren't interested in corn. and only slightly interested in the dough (badly made :'().
When my friend took some steak down to catch some eels he caught a turtle :o
So I was wondering if anyone could tell me about something that inner city carp would eat, that turtles might not.

Sorry for the long post,
Snagking

[yellahunter]

hand spear haha,
mate if you cant get em to eat during the day try at night
i know we used to get em down south in places like that at night.
you would try all day for nuda then at night it was a different story.
worms, corn, bread/dough.

[snagking]

Sweet thanks.
Anyone else have any idea's?

[tropicrows]

Make up a mix of floor water and some curry powder, until it's a pale yellow. Garden worms work well too. however you are still going to catch all the stuff as well.

[yellahunter]

mate eveything worth knowing is in what i mentioned.
dont bother with other things,
i was in the coarse anglers club down south
some of the guys have carp fishing down to an art,
also learned a lot from the english coarse angler books/

[2manylures]

mate eveything worth knowing is in what i mentioned.
dont bother with other things,
i was in the coarse anglers club down south
some of the guys have carp fishing down to an art,
also learned a lot from the english coarse angler books/

I was going to offer some advice as I used to regularly fish with the Australian Course Fishing Champion but seeing you've made it clear I won't.;D

[jim_bream]

hemp seed (if u can get it), maggots and dough (wet with Listerine after baiting hook- keeps the smaller carp & turtles away- older fish have poorer sense of smell) worked for me in the UK- was n't a member of a fancy-shmantsy club but caught my fair share of crap... er.... carp ;-)
jimbo

[snagking]

Would it be worth throwing some beetles into the lake for the carp and other fishes?

[oldboot]

Perhaps a fly or very small popper.


cheers

[reel scream]

As kids down south- bread/corn/poo on a stick. yOU SURE THEY ARE DIRTY OLD CARP MATE. ???

Kill the smelly lads.

Scott

[snagking]

Yeah, I'm positive :(

We've just had buckets of rain, so the lake is dirty as, so I'll have to wait a week to fish it again :(