Caught By
Skip Benedict
8/18/2019 7:06:45 PM
8/18/2019 7:06:45 PM
Jigging with spoons and castmasters. After 9 or 10 carp, I finally snagged this smallmouth in the pectoral fin... barely. Getting it in was a delicate proceedure between not losing the barely hooked fish, and not falling on my ass trying to climb down to net it.
Catch Details
| Smallmouth Bass | ||
| Topaz Canal | ||
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| spoon | ||
| 2 lb. 8 oz. | ||
| Everyone |
Catch Conditions
| Clear |
Comments
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Skip Benedict 0Oh yeah, carp are definitely in the canal. I've seen some that are massive in both the lake and the canal. Right now they're crowding around the outlet from ...more the lake. The trout and bass get big in there (we've landed several in the 4 to 5 lb range-- posted on here), but by far, the biggest fish I've caught in the canal was a carp. I have no idea what it weighed because, like a dumbass, I dropped it while trying to get it out of the water. Snapped my line and swam off with my lure in its back. Only the head would fit inside my net, which normally fits those 5 pounders I mentioned, no problem. Snagged him by chance in the dorsal fin so it was quite a fight too! Too bad they're not much good for eating... and that I dropped the damn thing!
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Norman Gibbs 0Carp in Topaz canal? I wasn't aware of that. I know there are some monster carp in Topaz lake; caught em in summer while bank fishing for trout. Shoulda known ...more they'd be in the canal. Maybe all those 'big trout' I've been seeing for years at the pipe outlet ain't trout!? My brother lived at Topaz till recently, I have to ask him if he's caught carp. You wouldn't think bass would live where the water gets so cold in winter either, but I see other Sierra lakes have bass as well. Don't know how recent bass are, but never heard about them till about 10 years ago. But a LOT of my old Sierra fishing holes have changed big time in the last 50 years...
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Skip Benedict 0No idea why the app is showing a length of 40.0 for this fish.
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